2 CIA Contractors Killed in Afghanistan

World | October 28, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00

Two contractors working for the CIA were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan the agency said Tuesday. William Carlson, 43, and Christopher Glenn Mueller, 32, were "tracking terrorists operating in the region" of Shkin, a village in eastern Afghanistan, when they were killed Saturday, the CIA said in a statement. Both were veterans of military special operations forces, the CIA said. The pair was working for the CIA's Directorate of Operations, which conducts clandestine intelligence-gathering and covert operations. The CIA statement says the agency consulted with the dead officers' families and decided their names could be released without compromising ongoing operations.

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