CIA chief Leon Panetta visits India, meets Chidambaram

New Delhi, September 02: The American Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) chief Leon Panetta has held a series of meetings with Home Minister P.Chidambaram and other senior government officials here.

Official sources said Panetta, who also met with Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Mathur and RAW chief A K Verma, discussed various areas of cooperation.

This is the first high-profile visit by any American official after a team of the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) had questioned terrorist David Coleman Headley in May in Chicago.

Panetta also met with Union Home Secretary G K Pillai.

–Agencies