CIA’s multinational interests in Pakistan
Posted on 04. Mar, 2011 by S M Hali in Pak-US Relations
By Sultan M. Hali
The arrests of Raymond Allen Davis (RAD), an established CIA operative and US national Mark De Haven from Peshawar have 
blown the lid off CIA’s clandestine operations in Pakistan. What is shocking is the extent of the massive covert maneuvers, which have been going on for years since the painstakingly laid infrastructure could not have been established in a few weeks’ time. As Pakistan’s security agencies dig deeper, they uncover more dark secrets. It has now become apparent that CIA was working for besides itself, the interests of a number of other foreign powers having hegemonic concerns in Pakistan; some of them openly hostile to Pakistan.
If this is not abuse of hospitality then what else is? There is honour even amongst thieves. In the dark and dank world of espionage, enshrouded in secrecy and comprises, there are certain norms and mores, which are upheld. However, it appears that the CIA is totally devoid of any ethical considerations. It is an accepted moral principle of espionage that the host country has the exclusive right of operating at home and external agencies have to coordinate their efforts in consonance with the home government. In this case, the CIA has crossed all limits especially when Pakistan and USA are considered to be allies and ISI and CIA have had the opportunity to work in tandem, first to route the Soviets from Afghanistan and post 9/11 to defeat the Al-Qaeda. However, at some stage CIA’s plans included working to the detriment of Pakistan’s interests too.
Under the garb of diplomats, the US government managed to place intelligence, security and guerrilla warfare experts in its embassies and consulates in Pakistan. These estimated over 3000 operatives have been conducting an internecine warfare within Pakistan.They have managed to infiltrate the Taliban and Al-Qaeda network and create their own Tehrik-e-Taliban (Pakistan) force, which has been recruited, trained and equipped by these CIA operatives to target Pakistan Army personnel, Armed Forces installations, markets, hospitals, schools and public places to destabilize Pakistan.
The Soviet Intelligence Agency SVR has disclosed that RAD and his network have provided Al-Qaeda operatives with chemical, nuclear and biological weapons so that installations in the US may be targeted and Pakistan is blamed and pressed to do more of the US’ dirty work like conducting operations in North Waziristan.
CIA operatives in Tehrik-e-Taliban (Pakistan) have also been unleashed to conduct political assassinations. Reportedly, PPP stalwart Benazir Bhutto was enabled to return to Pakistan by the US so that she could protect American interests in the region. The US even expected her to rollback Pakistan’s nuclear program. However, on her return to Pakistan, Benazir had a reality check and refused to play ball. Any bonafide Pakistani with roots amongst the masses would have had difficulty in toeing the US agenda and Benazir was a diehard Pakistani. Her reluctance resulted in her elimination and it is no coincidence that alleged CIA operative Baitullah Mehsud took responsibility for the assassination. It is no coincidence that within hours of Benazir’s assassination, Sindh not only came to a standstill but organized looting of banks, ATMs and Petrol Pumps was carried out. It appeared as if a blueprint of the entire operation of pillaging, looting and rioting had been prepared in advance.
The perpetrators only had to cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war. Has anyone wondered why no high value target has ever been eliminated during the drone attacks? RAD’s arrest resulted in the drone attacks being suspended for over four weeks. It was only when Pakistani media took up the question if RAD was directing the reviled drone attacks, which have resulted in the demise of hundreds of women, children and old men as collateral damage, that the drone attacks were ultimately resumed perhaps under a new spy master.
Let us examine the case of the fresh arrest of an American national, Aaron Mark De Haven. The alleged CIA operative had an expired visit visa; he is married to a local woman at Peshawar and claims to have converted to Islam. The whole episode is highly dubious and smacks of CIA operations. Coming back to RAD’s role as a CIA operative; his business cards were bogus, the address provided in the US was fictitious and there was little or no clue regarding his real identity. It was his wife, who finally let the cat out of the bag about his CIA connections. In fact it came about that the US media was under instructions to keep RAD’s true identity and CIA links under wraps.
The cases of RAD and De Haven are only the tip of the iceberg. The whole gamut of the CIA operations in Pakistan is still enshrouded in mystery and secrecy. The aspect of CIA giving its sister spy agency RAW a helping hand has also been uncovered. RAW has been facing disappointments in its Pakistan operations, however ever since it teamed up with the CIA and decided to ride piggyback, it has been having some success.
The deadly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team at Lahore was not only a triumphant operation, which besides driving away foreign sports teams from visiting Pakistan, also hammered the last nail in the coffin of Pakistan hosting the Cricket World Cup, currently in progress in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Pakistan has lost tremendous revenue while the cricket enthusiasts in Pakistan have been deprived of watching high class live cricket and the downstream industry has also suffered.
CIA operations in Pakistan are already illegal but cozying up to Pakistan’s enemies is akin to following the Chanakyan principle of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”. Indian spy agency RAW has had a watershed by its marriage of convenience to CIA and provided it an opportunity to settle old scores with archenemy Pakistan but the cat is now out of the bag. Pakistan needs to take the bull by the horns and confront CIA to stop its shenanigans in Pakistan and end its complicity with Pakistan’s enemies.
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Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
05. Mar, 2011
Excellent post. I find it extremely ironic that the CIA is predicting that extreme instability will cause Pakistan to be a failed state by 2015 ( http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2005/02/pak-will-be-failed-state-by-2015-cia.html ) – when they seem to be directly responsible for most of the instability.
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The Pentagon/CIA make no secret of their desire to see energy and mineral rich Balochistan secede from Pakistan to become a US client state – just like energy and mineral rich Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and the other former Soviet republics. The BLA training camps they have established (with the help of their RAW and RAD friends) throughout Balochistan would indicated the are very committed to achieving this strategy. Which I find extremely cynical, given that it's impossible to determine whether a bomb going off in the tribal areas has been planted by the CIA freedom fighters in the BLA, the Taliban or Al Qaeda. Nevertheless the CIA will use this as an excuse to kill yet more civilians with their drone missiles (1,000 total in the last two years).
I sincerely hope Raymond Davis' arrest and trial will blow the lid off all this. In fact I find the Mar 1 speech Pakistani prime minister Gilani made to the Assembly - accusing “hostile external elements” of supporting the insurgency in the province of Balochistan – highly significant – http://tribune.com.pk/story/125602/baloch-insurgency-funded-from-abroad-pm/
Especially coming after the government order expelling all Blackwater agents from Pakistan terroritory, it signals that Pakistan may be prepared to take a hard line against all CIA insurgents in their country.
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I blog about this at http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2010/12/30/the-us-as-a-semi-failed-state/
With a map of Free Balochistan drawn and copyrighted by retired Pentagon intelligence expert Lt Colonel Ralph Peters:
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http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899
Claudius Stahlkopf
05. Mar, 2011
The CIA must get out for ever off Pakistan. The CIA is no friend off any Islamic country's because the CIA is the imbodiment of big business , the servant of the mercantile plutocrats . So Islam is not particulary found of the way the western banksters , using usury as trade mark , and the corporations fabricating decadents mode in order to sale at any cost .
Pakistan should hang the CIA bastard in a public place in order to give a comprehensible message to Washinton .
So far the USA have stabed in their back all is allieds
bernie
05. Mar, 2011
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When is some reporter going write about the 45 or more PAKISTANIAN'S that were picked up by the ISA after Davis was squeezed to talk?? Since Davis
has realized that the USA is going to let him fry, I'll bet he has not stopped talking to the ISA about his whole operation???
Amit-Atlanta-USa
05. Mar, 2011
Conspiracy Theories ‘Stamped In DNA’ Of Pakistanis…. Dec 24th, 2009
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121880229
wayne allen
05. Mar, 2011
hang the basturd
World Spinner
05. Mar, 2011
CIA's multinational interests in Pakistan | Opinion Maker…
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philip a. travers
05. Mar, 2011
Typing this knowing hotmail is as close to the CIA as you can get,and other processing of computers is the same…the only conclusion you can really make about the C.I.A. one of many intelligence gathering organizations is that it needs a cricket box.The one you wear on your balls.Now why aren't they taking any notice of the fine ex Air Force man from Pakistan that has written this article.Do these CIA people love hiding behind all their culpable failures of practice and procedure up to now! It would seem so.The merchants of mental disorders for everyone except the over protected political wing of the American connivance.Hilary Clinton talking about U.S.A. TV not serving their,U.S.A. public. Wasting so much time on their own preening in their Houses of Government about better TV stations.What hope is there for the rest of humanity,whilst the American populace warn down,I suspect, from the idiots who with money for self in mind only… ride the populace to death.Here in time warp Gillard Australia,pussyfooting about as Foreign Policy will never get to the point of disengaging the Ally. Brain hurts if one criticises the U.S.A. Government torpor.Keep your fly skills up,they are important.
amin gani
05. Mar, 2011
LIE CAN NOT BE HIDDEN .WORLD NOW NEW WHO IS TRRORIEST BUT WHO IS SUPPER TERRIRIST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD…
Jeddy
06. Mar, 2011
Though the USA supplied the weapons for the Afghans to fight – it provided all most most wherewithal to the ISI to carry out almost every kind of covert operation imaginable. The CIA kept itself out of harms way – many things it had thought of but had never tried, it found out when ISI pulled it off and those which went bad the ISI found a way around them. ISI got its hands training and improved on it. The ISI's training has proven useful in defending Pakistan. So the many of the CIA-RAW plots have failed because of that.
Citizen
06. Mar, 2011
The article reeks of ignorance and conspiracy theories. Thank heaven that pakistan is full of such idiots. There is no hope that pakistan will be a developed nation anytime soon thanks to these psuedo intellectuals.
Lulldapull
06. Mar, 2011
Unfortunately nothing will happen to RAD or the other dude……Pakistan's military leaders are sell outs. The Pakistani military has been on the CIA's dole for far too long! Who will pay the salaries of these corrupt Generals who are Sindhi's & Punjabi's, the bureaucrats and so called elites?
It is these (haft pushtee) corrupt Sindhi/ Punjabi background people who worship the U.S. and will do anything the CIA tells them to do!
Lets not kid ourselves that this 100% corrupt Punjabi ISI didn't know what these CIA contractors have been doing in Pakistan for the last many years, or for that matter all the false flag operations carried out throughout Iraq and Afghanistan for the last 10 years now! The ISI itself allowed these RAD's in the country to precisely carryout terrorist operations.
The ISI itself is a corrupt and subservient organization. It was setup 50 years ago and to this day is funded by the CIA.
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