Terror suspect Headley not our agent: CIA

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Dec 17 (PTI) As reports flew thick of him
being a "double agent", America's Central Investigation Agency
(CIA) Thursday flatly rejected that LeT operative David
Coleman Headley, charged with criminal conspiring in the
Mumbai terror attacks, was engaged by them at any point of
time.
"I can't comment on an ongoing investigation, but any
suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat
wrong," CIA spokesperson Marie E Harf told PTI when asked
about Pakistani-origin US national Headley's links with the
America's top intelligence agency.
49-year-old Headley, now languishing in a
Chicago-jail, was arrested by the FBI on October 3 when he was
planning to go to Pakistan via Philadelphia.
Headley has been charged in a 12-count criminal
information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public
places in India, murder and maim persons in India and Denmark,
provide material support to foreign terrorist plots, provide
material support to terror group LeT, and six counts of aiding
and abetting the murder of US citizens in India.
Besides refuting any links between Headley and CIA,
the spokeswoman refrained from making any comment on the
Headley-Rana case arguing that it is an ongoing investigation.
Media reports in the past few days have said that
Headley may well have been a "double agent" working for the
CIA as well as Pakistani terror groups including Lashkar-
e-Taiba, which carried out the Mumbai terrorist attack. PTI
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