CIA will stop using phony vaccination programs to collect DNA to aid spying

Three years after the CIA set up a phony hepatitis vaccination program in Pakistan as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, administration officials have said that the agency will no longer use vaccination programs as a cover-up for spying.

Lisa Monaco, senior counterterrorism and homeland security adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote in a letter addressed to the deans of several prominent public health schools that the CIA would no longer use vaccination programs as a way to collect intelligence.

Read the full, original story: An Obama Administration counter-terrorism adviser said the CIA has committed to stop using immunization programs as cover up for intelligence gathering operations

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