Rocca,Christina

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Christina Rocca, a veteran of the CIA's Operations Directorate since 1982, was nominated in April 2001, as the Secretary of State for South Asia in place Karl Inderfurth (->). Rocca resigned from the CIA in 1997 and started working as an advisor of republican Senator Sam Brownback in Kansas. In early 2001, Brownback had moved two amendments, adopted by the US Senate in 1999, vesting powers with the President to lift sanctions against India and Pakistan. On August 2nd, 2001, as revealed by many different sources and documented in Forbidden Truth, Christina Rocca, the director of Asian affairs at the State Department, met the Taliban ambassador, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, in Islamabad and his assistant, Sohail Shaheen. Ms Rocca was previously in charge of contacts with Islamist guerrilla groups at the CIA, where in the 1980s, she oversaw the delivery of Stinger missiles to Afghan mujaheddin. It is believed that she was closely involved in the operations of the CIA against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. She visited India and Pakistan under her real name. In the early 1990s, Rocca monitored the implementation of a plan for the buy-back by the CIA from the Afghan Mujahideen (->) groups and the Inter-Services Intelligence (See Isi) of Pakistan the unused Stinger missiles supplied by the CIA, free of cost during the 1980s, for use against the Soviet troops. Lt.Gen.Javed Nasir, the Director-General of the ISI during Mr.Nawaz Sharif's first tenure as the Prime Minister (1990-93), did not co-operate with the CIA in the implementation of this buy-back scheme. It was on the recommendation of Rocca that Mr.Clinton placed Pakistan in the so-called watch list of suspected State-sponsors of international terrorism in January, 1993, and demanded that Mr. Nawaz Sharif should remove from the ISI. Rocca supported the Steering Group-study on Iran-Iraq. Members of this group had been Senator Brownback, Woolsey,James (-> former Director of the CIA) and former Congressman Stephen Solarz, both reputed to be good friends of India . Rocca is well known to have varied interests in South Asia as well as the Middle East Source: http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper230.html

(->Saag) In October 2002, Rocca was in Karachi discussing security arrangements for US diplomats and ways of increasing security for the now secret US Consulate in Karachi. She met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to discuss "bilateral issues". Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_75663,00050002.htm