Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has revealed that the United States provided millions of dollars to Pakistan under former President Pervez Musharraf , in effect “purchasing” his cooperation. He also claimed that Musharraf handed over control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal to the US. "When I was stationed in Pakistan in 2002, I was told unofficially that the Pentagon controlled the Pakistani nuclear arsenal, that Musharraf had turned control over to the United States because he was afraid of exactly what you just described (nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands)," Kiriakou told news agency ANI. Kiriakou also revealed that the US refrained from targeting Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan's atomic bomb, after “direct intervention” by the Saudi government.

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