Pentagon spy network hired to ‘track and kill’
The employee is said to have paid firms using former members of the special forces and CIA under the cover of an innocuous government scheme to gather tribal and cultural information.
Their reports were then passed to military and intelligence units so they could kill militants and target insurgent camps, officials told The New York Times.
It was not clear if Michael D Furlong, the Pentagon official at the centre of the accusations, had approval for the scheme but officials said they had become alarmed he was running an off-the-books spy agency.
The network is alleged to have been blown when the CIA chief in Kabul personally complained to the US Defence Department.
His operation has now been shut down and he is subject to criminal investigation for offences including contract fraud.
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