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Report: Former CIA Station Chief Detained In Panama

Jul 18, 2013, 23:42 IST

Kara Allyson via Flickr A former CIA station chief for Milan, Italy, has allegedly been detained in Panama, the Associated Press reports.

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Robert Seldon Lady was one of 23 Americans convicted in Italian court for the kidnapping ("rendition") of Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, aka Abu Omar.

From the AP:

The Italian justice ministry says a former CIA station chief who was convicted in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a street of Milan has been detained in Panama.

The ministry — which notes they don't know exactly when or where Lady was detained — gave Lady 9 years in prison for the conviction, and will likely make moves to extradite the former agent back to Italy.

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Washington has yet to issue a statement on the detainment.

Lady's capture, if confirmed, would be yet another blow to the Agency in what has turned out to be quite a tough year.

They've been plagued with everything from fallout over their involvement in a Kathryn Bigelow movie, to outed station chiefs, to agents captured allegedly in the process of recruiting double agents.

They've also come under fire for their involvement in Benghazi, and a shooting in Pakistan.

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