Raymond Davis is a CIA agent: British Newspaper

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A British newspaper claims that US citizen Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men on a Lahore street, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the United States, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time of the incident.

21 February,2011 02:14 am

According to a report published by British newspaper Guardian, Raymond Davis and the other men involved in these killings had the same diplomatic visa as Davis. It is not unusual for US intelligence officers, like their counterparts round the world, to carry diplomatic passports.Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an administrative and technical official attached to its Lahore consulate and is entitled to diplomatic immunity. Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former Special Forces soldier is employed by the CIA. It is beyond a shadow of a doubt, said a senior Pakistani intelligence official.The Pakistani government is aware of Daviss CIA status yet has kept quiet in the face of immense American pressure to free him under the Vienna convention. Last week President Barack Obama described Davis as our diplomat and dispatched his chief diplomatic troubleshooter, Senator John Kerry, to Islamabad. Kerry returned home empty-handed.