Washington: Raymond Davis who shot dead two Pakistanis last month in Lahore, provincial capital of Punjab, was associated with Central Investigation Agency (CIA), a United States official said.
A report published by Washington Post on Monday said that it ahas been a complicated affair for the US officals to get Davis released from Pakistan’s custody.
President Obama and other senior administrative officials have repeatedly described Davis as a diplomat who was assigned to the US consulate in Lahore, and said he is entitled to immunity from prosecution in Pakistan.
But in fact Davis has spent much of the past two years working as part of a group of covert CIA operatives, whose mission was surveillance of militant groups in large cities including Lahore.
At the time of his arrest, Davis was based at a house with five other CIA contractors as well as a former agency staff officer who had returned to work for the spy service for the assignment in Pakistan, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The official said the impact of the disclosure that Davis is a CIA employee “will be serious.”
According to Pakistani intelligence agencies, Davis has also worked for Black Water, a private military company of US, before joining CIA.
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