Top U.S. Spy Leaves Pakistan After His Name Is Revealed
By MARK MAZZETTI and SALMAN MASOOD Published: December 17, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency ’s top clandestine officer in Islamabad was pulled from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer’s cover was deliberately blown by Pakistan ’s military intelligence agency. The C.I.A. officer hastily left Pakistan on the same day that an Obama administration review of the Afghanistan war concluded that the war could not be won without greater cooperation from Islamabad in rooting out militants in Pakistan ’s western mountains. American officials said that the C.I.A. station chief had received a number of death threats after he was named publicly in a legal complaint sent to Pakistani police this week by the family of victims of the spy agency’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan ’s tribal areas. But the officials sa...