白宫自2011年5月以来所宣称的相反，而是通过巴基斯坦一位前情报高官得知这一情况，该前情报人员泄露这一秘密是为了得到美国悬赏的两千五百万美元赏金。

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that the CIA did not learn of bin Laden’s whereabouts by tracking his couriers, as the White House has claimed since May 2011, but from a former senior Pakistani intelligence officer who betrayed the secret in return for much of the $25 million reward offered by the US,