中情局：不再利用疫苗接種項目蒐集情報

The White House has pledged that the CIA will no longer use vaccination programs as a cover for spying operations, three years after the agency used the ruse in Pakistan before the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

A White House spokesperson says President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, Lisa Monaco, responded to a letter from the deans of about a dozen prominent public health schools last week who were concerned the ruse could cause serious consequences to public health efforts.

Monaco told the deans the CIA has agreed it would no longer use vaccination programs or workers for intelligence purposes. The CIA also agreed not to use genetic materials obtained through such programs.

In 2011, the CIA recruited Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi to offer a program of hepatitis vaccinations in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad as cover to obtain DNA samples from the bin Laden compound. The United States wanted to make sure bin Laden was there before launching an operation into another country.

Afridi was convicted of treason and sentenced to 33 years in a Pakistani prison. The sentence was overturned in 2013, and Afridi now faces a retrial.白宮保證，美國中央情報局今後不再利用接種疫苗項目做掩護來從事間諜活動。美國三年前發動突襲行動擊斃本拉登，此前中情局採取了這種策略。

白宮發言人說，奧巴馬總統的首席反恐事務顧問莫納科對十幾所美國知名醫學院院長上星期的一封來信做出答覆，他們擔心中情局的這一策略可能在公共保健領域造成嚴重後果。

莫納科對這些院長說，中情局不再利用接種疫苗項目或人員從事情報蒐集工作。中情局還同意不再使用來自這類項目的遺傳物質。

2011年，中情局招募了巴基斯坦醫生阿弗裏迪，由他提出在巴基斯坦城市阿伯塔巴德實行一個肝炎疫苗接種項目，以便從本拉登的住地獲取DNA樣本。在外國採取行動之前，美國要確認本拉登的所在地點。

阿弗裏迪被判犯有叛國罪，並在巴基斯坦被判33年監禁。這一判決於2013年被推翻，阿弗裏迪目前面臨重審。