U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Pakistan's intelligence service authorized Chinese military, the wreck of the Black Hawk helicopter stealth destroyed after the raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden to investigate the New York Times reported on Monday. The report of the U.S. intelligence assessment is based on "intercepted conversations in which Pakistani officials discussed inviting the Chinese to the site of the accident," reported The Times Mark Mazzetti.
Mazzetti noted that U.S. officials acknowledge that they have no "definitive proof" of the Chinese got access to the aircraft remains in Abbottabad have - but he cites a source with the incident was "sure" that the Chinese engineers and sample images the wreck took.
Pakistani officials denied the charge, if they raised their U.S. colleagues, says Mazzetti. The remains of the Black Hawk helicopter was returned to the United States.
News from the American intelligence assessment comes after the Financial Times first reported on Sunday that the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI has Chinese military engineers to photograph and take samples of the U.S. stealth helicopter destroyed.
This latest round of leaks of sensitive information sheds light on the state of US-Pakistan relations during the second May RAID. Since the Navy SEAL team in the country without prior consultation with the Pakistani authorities, the raid was a success in great embarrassment for the establishment of Pakistan's security.
But while U.S. intelligence assessment may be new, U.S. authorities have long suspected that the Chinese access to the helicopter could have crashed through the intercession of Pakistan. The following week, the attack on Bin Laden, ABC News reports on this whole scenario, as Marcy Wheeler notes in his blog Monday vacuum wheel.
U.S. officials declined to comment on their part to the reports of helicopters.
"In view of the history of the helicopter and China, which would lead us in intelligence, so I'm not on that one comment at all," said State Department spokesman, Mrs. Victoria Nuland in the State Department press briefing Monday.
Nuland recognized earlier reports that the U.S. restricts certain military assistance to Pakistan in Pakistan given restricted access to land for U.S. personnel and other manifestations of a blackout in relationships.
"I do not think that this story is quite new, that while our civilian aid is unbroken, the safety concerns, the military, we had to make some changes on the basis of cooperation", said Nuland. "We have military personnel have the necessary po ... in the fight against terrorism, depends on the level of our ability to work together to further strengthen this dialogue."
"So the military support - we are very clear on this military aid and hang it on our capacity for cooperation," Nuland said.
"The Chinese can not be of much value from simple pictures of the helicopter, but the fact that the photos were taken and sent them another true trust-buster," another former senior official of U.S. and South Asia hand told the envoy Monday. well, he said, believe that U.S. intelligence agencies, "the reality of what with ISI [al Qaeda] and other jihadist organizations do far uglier than what it means in the press, and it's very, very disappointing."
