President Pervez Musharraf, left, with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who succeeded Mr. Musharraf as chief of the army last year. General Kayani previously led the ISI, Pakistan’s premier military intelligence agency. From The International Herald Tribune:
WASHINGTON: As they complete their training at "The Farm," the CIA's base in the Virginia Tidewater, young agency recruits are taught a lesson they are expected never to forget during assignments overseas: There is no such thing as a friendly intelligence service.
Foreign spy services, even those of America's closest allies, will try to manipulate you. So you had better learn how to manipulate them back.
But most CIA veterans agree that no relationship between the spy agency and a foreign intelligence service is quite as byzantine, or as maddening, as that between the CIA and the Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI.
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My Comment: A puff piece on the CIA's relationship with its counterpart in Pakistan .... the ISI.
Bottom line .... after giving billions in aid and military supplies to Pakistan .... the relationship is still "murky" at best. this does not give me a vote of confidence.
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