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CIA tried to contact Hamas despite ban, spy cables reveal
Updated On: 24 February, 2015 04:23 PM IST | | IANS
Despite a US government ban on contact with the Hamas, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tried to gain access to the Palestinian Islamist movement through back channels, spy cables accessed by the Al-Jazeera news channel and shared with British daily The Guardian reveal
London: Despite a US government ban on contact with the Hamas, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tried to gain access to the Palestinian Islamist movement through back channels, spy cables accessed by the Al-Jazeera news channel and shared with British daily The Guardian reveal.
The cables suggest that US intelligence has been anxious to make inroads with Hamas, or recruit agents, inside the Gaza Strip, The Guardian reported Monday.
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