Really Scary: Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan

 

The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaeda, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.No other nation draws as much scrutiny across so many categories of national security concern.

 

 

Secret intelligence files show growing distrust of Pakistan

Secret intelligence files show growing distrust of Pakistan

Greg Miller, Craig Whitlock and Barton Gellman 9:04 AM ET

Stark assessments of the purported ally contained in the documents belie U.S. officials’ public statements.

 A 178-page summary of the U.S. intelligence community’s “black budget” shows that the United States has ramped up its surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear arms, cites previously undisclosed concerns about biological and chemical sites there, and details efforts to assess the loyalties of counter­terrorism sources recruited by the CIA.

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