U.S. officials have acknowledged the CIA organized a vaccine program in the Pakistani town where they believed Osama bin Laden to be hiding in an effort to obtain DNA from his family. They also say the campaign was a legitimate part of the effort to find the al-Qaeda leader.
The Guardian newspaper disclosed the existence of the CIA vaccine drive earlier this week, saying that the agency had recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to travel to Abbottabad to organize it.
That doctor has since been arrested by the country?s Inter-Services Intelligence agency for cooperating with the agency, and U.S. officials have said they are seeking to have him released. The issue could come up at talks between the CIA?s acting director, Michael Morell, and his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who is due to arrive in Washington today.
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