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THE White House has pledged that the CIA will no longer use vaccination programmes as cover for spying operations.
The spy agency used the ruse in targeting Osama bin Laden before the raid that killed him in 2011.
Pakistani Doctor Shakil Afridi had offered a programme of hepatitis vaccinations in the city of Abbottabad as cover for his CIA-backed effort to obtain DNA samples from children at the compound where Bin Laden was later killed.
The British government won’t confirm wide reports it has withheld intelligence sharing with the US over fears Trump’s attacks on boats near Venezuela are illegal, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
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GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
