CIA Director George Tenet visited Pakistan and Iraq earlier this month, but did not speak to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein who is in US custody, a US official said on Sunday.
Tenet met with Pakistani officials during a visit to Islamabad the week before last, the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The official would not comment on the substance of the meetings, but they likely included discussions of the revelations about Pakistan's role in the nuclear black market after scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan confessed to selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea.
Tenet also likely discussed terrorism as the United States continues to hunt for members of al Qaeda, including its leader Osama bin Laden who is believed to be hiding in the mountainous border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities are gearing up for a drive against al Qaeda and Taleban militants in remote western tribal areas and have sought the deployment of more paramilitary troops, officials in the region say.
Tenet, during the same trip, also stopped in Iraq but did not talk to Saddam, the US official said.
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