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Did Pakistan Poison a Senior CIA Official?

Sun, 05/08/2016 - 9:53am

Did Pakistan Poison a Senior CIA Official? By J. Walker Glascock, Christian Science Monitor

Current and former US officials believe that CIA station chief, Mark Kelton, may have been poisoned by the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after the 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, the Washington Post reports.

Following the US military raid on a Pakistani compound, a raid that local officials neither knew of nor signed off on, now-retired Pakistan station chief, Mark Kelton became seriously ill. Within two months and after several unsuccessful treatment-seeking trips outside of Pakistan, Kelton’s illness had become so severe that he was pulled from the country.

Following retirement and surgery, Mr. Kelton recovered. But some CIA officials continue to believe his sudden and still-unexplained illness may have been the result of an ISI-orchestrated poisoning, reports Greg Miller of the Washington Post

While US officials acknowledged that the alleged poisoning was never proven, other intelligence representatives confirmed that connections have been found between the ISI and multiple plots against individuals considered opponents to the Pakistani agency; including journalists and diplomats…

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