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WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company’s operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan.
Panetta canceled the contract earlier this year and the work is being shifted to government personnel, a person familiar with the contract said Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the classified program.
The CIA’s Predator program targets senior al-Qaeda operatives and Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal area along the border with Afghanistan, but the agency has not publicly confirmed its role in the operation.
