Main Candidate for Post of CIA Head Worked in Baku for Several Years

Baku / 10.05.18 / Turan: In early May, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States for the first time declassified some details of the working biography of the main pretender to the post of the new head of the department, Gina Haspel. She can become not only the first woman in history who headed the CIA, but also the first director of the CIA, who knows Russian well.

In a biographical note published by the agency, it is reported that Haspel, who began her career in the CIA in 1985, worked in the European and Eurasian departments of the CIA in the 1990s, overseeing, in particular, the Russian direction.

According to BBC, she had a "15-year secret mission in Russia."

Former colleagues say that on several business trips she led operations against Russian agents, The Washington Post writes.

According to BBC, she worked for several years in Azerbaijan. Thus, according to CBS News, in Baku, in the late 1990s, she ran a local CIA residence and was involved in a successful operation to capture two people accused of attacking US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Simultaneously, she was the head of the US residency in Ankara, having thoroughly studied the Turkish language.

One of the former employees of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan confirmed the fact of Haspel's work in Baku, without mentioning which position she occupied. According to unconfirmed reports, she was listed in the structure of USAID. -02D-