BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry will ask U.S. Ambassador Maura Connelly for clarification regarding an alleged spying network organized by the CIA in the country, ministerial sources told The Daily Star Wednesday.
Late in the afternoon, Hezbollah’s Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hasan told reporters at the Grand Serail that the foreign minister would summon Connelly over the spy network allegedly operating through the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, Metn.
The Cabinet is currently in session and Information Minister Walid Daouk is expected to hold a news conference after the meeting.
Earlier Wednesday, Hezbollah MP Hasan Fadlallah told reporters outside Parliament that the resistance group had succeeded in exposing CIA operatives in Lebanon and urged the government to take immediate measures against the U.S. Embassy near Beirut.
"The resistance blinded American intelligence eyes," Fadlallah said outside Parliament
The MP’s comments came days after reports emerged that Hezbollah had uncovered several operatives within the movement working for the CIA.
The U.S. embassy in Beirut dismissed the accusations as “empty."
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour met with Connelly earlier Wednesday at the ministry’s headquarters. The meeting lasted 40 minutes and the ambassador left the meeting without making any statements.