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Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, an association of nearly 200 American NGOs, has deemed it unacceptable that the Pentagon or any other U.S. agency use an NGO for intelligence purposes. He also considers it a violation of the civic sector. According to a senior government official who did not know about the operation, using NGOs for Intelligence-gathering purposes may cause more harm than good, as it happened in Pakistan when the CIA, in hunt of Osama Bin Laden, recruited a doctor to get DNA samplesunder the pretense of a polio vaccination campaign. This resulted in not only the capture of the doctor but to this day, the Taliban and residents of Taliban-influenced areas have been highly violent towards polio workers and health ministry officials, which in turn has seen a rise in polio cases in a region which previously had a lot fewer cases.
Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, an association of nearly 200 American NGOs, has deemed it unacceptable that the Pentagon or any other U.S. agency use an NGO for intelligence purposes. He also considers it a violation of the civic sector. According to a senior government official who did not know about the operation, using NGOs for Intelligence-gathering purposes may cause more harm than good, as it happened in Pakistan when the CIA, in hunt of Osama Bin Laden, recruited a doctor to get DNA samplesunder the pretense of a polio vaccination campaign. This resulted in not only the capture of the doctor but to this day, the Taliban and residents of Taliban-influenced areas have been highly violent towards polio workers and health ministry officials, which in turn has seen a rise in polio cases in a region which previously had a lot fewer cases.
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