WASHINGTON - the Central Intelligence Agency moved its top spy from Pakistan, citing threats to his life reveals its name after a lawsuit and accused him of agency campaign of the drone missile strikes in the country to helping orchestrate.
The Agency can find is that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, the ISI, a role in blowing the CIA station chief's cover, a sign of tension in relations may have had, officials said.
The White House has on frustration with Pakistan in recent months about its refusal expressed more firmly against militant on its territory. A White House review of the Afghan war strategy, released Thursday, said permanent war profits posted at removing militant havens in Pakistan.
The station chief in Islamabad is one of the most critical and sensitive mappings CIA. The boss covert programs including the drone campaign monitor the Agency. The programme aims to al Qaeda and Taliban leaders and fighters, the border to Afghanistan to fight to American and Western forces there.
The drone strikes are unpopular in Pakistan, but officials say, secretly support the Government and the ISI by providing us with intelligence used, determine the militant targets.
U.S. officials said the departure of the station chief will disturb the pace of the drone strikes, the CIA has powered up in recent months.
On Friday the three rocket attacks had killed 54 alleged militants near Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims, the commanders contained a Taliban allies, the group a meeting, Pakistani officials said, the associated press reported.
The CIA station chief worked undercover on Thursday left Islamabad and returned to the United States, officials said. A U.S. intelligence official said decided that pull the CIA station chief of the country after "Terrorist threats against him in Pakistan, that it would be unwise not to act were those serious."
The station chief named in a legal complaint which recently in Pakistan, which claimed that CIA drones civilians killed. U.S. officials say the strikes scores of militant and kill some civilians.
The complaint also name Leon Panetta, the CIA Chief Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the case.
After the complaint was lodged, several dozen people from the tribal regions, whose Familienmitglieder allegedly killed in missile strike demonstrated outside the Supreme Court and the Parliament, demanding action. They were the posters, the station chief named and call for his expulsion.
The legal complaint identified the station chief's name while the spelling was inaccurate. The name was picked up and Pakistani media reports.
A CIA spokesman George little said station chiefs "routinely" large risks and have taken terrorists in the past in the sights.
US officials say bindings between the CIA and the ISI have expanded in recent years, but tensions remain, particularly on U.S. claims that the Pakistani Spy the Taliban and some of its allies support agency.
Pakistani officials in Washington to respond to a request to comment.
-Zahid Hussain and Julian E. Barnes contributed to this article.
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