Do You Know That CIA Uses Vaccination As Spying? But That Got To Stop As CIA Set To Stop Using Vaccination Schemes As Cover

 

          The CIA will no longer use vaccination programmes as cover for spying operations, as it famously did while hunting for Osama bin Laden.

President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser, Lisa Monaco, has made the pledge in a letter to the deans of 13 prominent public health schools.


Ms Monaco said the CIA had agreed it would "make no operational use of vaccination programmes, which includes vaccination workers".
The agency also agreed to not use genetic materials obtained through such programmes.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said director John Brennan "took seriously the concerns raised by the public health community, examined them closely and took decisive action".
The health school deans were among a group of medical authorities who publicly criticised the CIA's use of the immunisation programmes after the media revealed details of the operation that led to bin Laden's killing in 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi offered a programme of hepatitis vaccinations in Abbottabad as cover for his CIA-backed effort to obtain DNA samples from children at the compound where bin Laden was hiding.
Afridi was convicted and sentenced by a Pakistani court to 33 years in prison for treason.
The sentence was later overturned and Afridi faces a retrial.

 Courtesy Sky news