Terror suspect Headley not our agent: Central intelligence agency

As reports flew thick of him being a "double agent", the CIA today flatly rejected that LeT operative David Coleman Headley, charged with criminal conspiring in the Mumbai terror attacks, was engaged by them at any point of time.

"I can't comment on an ongoing investigation, but any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong," CIA spokesperson Marie E Harf told PTI when asked about Pakistani-origin US national Headley's links with the America's top intelligence agency.

49-year-old Headley, currently in a Chicago-jail, was arrested by the FBI on October 3 when he was planning to go to Pakistan via Philadelphia.

Headley has been charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, provide material support to foreign terrorist plots, provide material support to terror group LeT, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of US citizens in India.

Besides refuting any links between Headley and CIA, the spokeswoman refrained from making any comment on the Headley-Rana case arguing that it is an ongoing investigation.

Media reports in the past few days have said that Headley may well have been a "double agent" working for the CIA as well as Pakistani terror groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the Mumbai terrorist attack.