Intelligence
The Central Intelligence Agency has picked a new top spy, tapping an
undercover veteran who played a central role in developing personal
relationships with Afghan leaders after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
He remains undercover and is known within the agency
as “Spider,” a U.S. official said. His new role will be director of the
National Clandestine Service, a position that effectively makes him responsible
for all of the agency’s spying activities.
Spider’s reputation within the agency is
something of legend. He survived an 2001 accidental U.S. bombing attack while
meeting with Hamid Karzai, helped launch
attacks against al Qaeda and the Taliban in 2002, and accompanied Mr. Karzai,
who by then had become Afghanistan’s president, to a White House meeting in
2010.
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