Former CIA Chief Suspected To Be Poisoned After Osama Bin Laden Raid

Washington: It is suspected that former CIA Chief Mark Kelton, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, has been poisoned. The raid took place at Abottabad, Pakistan on 2011. According to reports, the CIA chief was replaced from Islamabad, the country capital after the raid, citing health concerns.

In a media report after Kelton’s death, CIA noted: “Mark Kelton retired from the CIA, and his health has recovered after he had abdominal surgery. But agency officials continue to think that it is plausible - if not provable - that Kelton's sudden illness was somehow orchestrated by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, known as the ISI.”

Also, Kelton’s illness was seemed mysterious, which was found combined with allegation that the Pakistani intelligence ISI ‘had been linked to numerous plots’ against journalists and diplomats have ‘triggered suspicions’ against ISI.  The suspicious nature of Kelon’s death ‘was never clarified’ and described that Kelon had refused multiple interview with him following five years of Laden’s death.

Even if the poisoning suspicion is groundless, the idea that the CIA and its station chief considered the ISI capable of such an act suggests that the breakdown in trust was even worse than widely assumed, as post from the Pakistani embassy following Kelon’s death have described.