Two of the CIA workers killed in Afghanistan were private contractors with the security company formerly known as Blackwater. An obituary released Wednesday for 35-year-old Jeremy Wise said he was a former Navy SEAL who was working with the company now known as Xe. MindyLou Paresi said in an interview with The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, that her husband, 46-year-old Dane Clark Paresi, was also a Xe contractor who was killed.
Xe spokesman Mark Corallo declined to confirm whether the men worked for the North Carolina-based company. A former US intelligence officials has said that a suicide bomber killed eight people inside a CIA base in Afghanistan, including four CIA officers, three security guards and a Jordanian intelligence officer.