CIA operative killed in Afghan attack

WASHINGTON -- An officer for the Central Intelligence Agency was among those killed in a suicide bombing at an Afghan intelligence office, the latest so-called "insider attack" in the war, according to one current and one former U.S. official.

The attack Saturday in Kandahar province killed four Afghan intelligence officials and two U.S. intelligence officers. One of the Americans has been identified as a soldier, Spc. Brittany B. Gordon, 24, assigned to a military intelligence company from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington state.

A senior U.S. defense official and a former U.S. intelligence official said the other American was an officer working for the CIA. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information on the record. The officer's name is being withheld.

NATO said the bomber was a member of Afghanistan's intelligence agency, but the Afghans denied that. -- AP