ISLAMABAD (NYT) — For the second time in five months, the Pakistani authorities have embarrassed the Central Intelligence Agency by leaking the name of the CIA station chief in Islamabad to Pakistani news media, a deliberate effort to complicate the work of the American spy agency in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, American officials said.

The publication of the name demonstrated the tilt toward a near adversarial relationship between the CIA and the Pakistani spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, since the Bin Laden raid. It appeared to be aimed at showing the leverage the Pakistanis retain over American interests in the country, both sides said.
In an address before Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani made clear that Pakistani officials at the highest levels accepted little responsibility for the fact that Bin Laden was able to hide in their country for years.
Instead, he obliquely criticized the United States for having driven Bin Laden into Pakistan, condemned its violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, and called the Qaeda leader’s presence in Pakistan an intelligence failure of the “whole world.”
He said it was “disingenuous” for anyone to blame the ISI or the army of being “in cahoots” with Bin Laden, something American officials suspect but say they have no proof of.
The prime minister’s statements, along with the publication of the name of the CIA station chief, signaled the depths of the recriminations and potential for retaliation on both sides as American officials demand greater transparency and cooperation from Pakistan, which has not been forthcoming.
The Pakistani spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence Directorate, gave the name of the station chief to The Nation, a conservative daily newspaper, American and Pakistani officials said.
The name appeared spelled incorrectly but in a close approximation to a phonetic spelling in Saturday’s editions of The Nation, a paper with a small circulation that is supportive of the ISI. The ISI commonly plants stories in the Pakistani media and is known to keep some journalists on its payroll.