KABUL – CIA Chief Gina Haspel makes a secret visit to Kabul, USintelligence to be enhanced in Afghanistan as per the afghan media report.
CIA Director Gina Haspel visited Afghanistan this week to discuss a numberof issues including maintaining and possibly expanding the US intelligencepresence in the country, CNN said in a report, quoting sources familiarwith the visit.
Haspel’s visit comes as the United States remains actively engaged in peacetalks with the Taliban and just days after three US service members werekilled by an improvised explosive device near Bagram Air Base in Parwanprovince. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Seven US servicemembers have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
Haspel met with Afghan government officials including President AshrafGhani and the head of the National Directorate of Security, MasoomStanekzai, according to sources familiar with the visit, as mentioned inCNN report.
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A CIA spokesperson declined to comment, saying they do not discuss thedirector’s schedule, CNN said in the report.
