Attack on CIA base; On 30 December 2009, a suicide bomber attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman, a major CIA base in Khost, and killed seven CIA officers, including the chief of the base. Surveillance balloons, antennas on every hill, and KPF militias on the ground dominate the landscape of many parts of the province. On 18 February 2011 a suicide car bomber targeted a police checkpoint and killed 11 people. The center of this dystopian reality is the CIA base in the city, Camp Chapman, where the militia is being trained. But it was the informant al-Balawi that took Hanson to Khost, a mountain base on the Pakistan border, where the CIA team assembled in December to await the informant’s arrival. The intelligence’ surveillance complex has become part of the people’s daily life in Khost. The CIA claimed Jennifer Matthews had failed to vet an informant visiting a base - leading to the deaths of seven U.S. operatives. A decision was made to bring Balawi into Khost base, behind three lines of security. The bombing took place on December 30, 2009 at a CIA base called Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. Separately, former CIA officials said an agent who ran the agency's base in Khost was among those killed by the attacker, who detonated a bomb-laden vest inside the compound. Demographics. Now her husband Gary … On December 30, 2009, a suicide attack occurred in the Forward Operating Base Chapman attack in the province of Khost, Afghanistan.Seven CIA officers, including the chief of the base, were killed and six others seriously wounded in the attack. CIA Was Warned About Khost Base Bomber, Inquiry Finds MARK MAZZETTI New York Times WASHINGTON -- Three weeks before a Jordanian double agent set off a bomb at a remote Central Intelligence Agency base in eastern Afghanistan last December, a C.I.A. The former officials said the Khost chief was the mother of three. Panetta is wrong. A plume of smoke rises over Khost city moments after a car bomb detonated at the gates of an Afghan National Security Forces base on Oct. 27, … On January 10, 2010, CIA director Leon Panetta wrote a Washington Post op-ed in which he disputed that poor tradecraft was a factor in the Khost tragedy. The CIA knew the Taliban was onto the base. To meet with the CIA handlers, the Jordanian double agent was … The agency also set up bases all over Afghanistan, including one in Khost, named after Nathan Ross Chapman, a Green Beret killed in 2002 in the area while officially detailed to the CIA. Panetta is wrong. And even that wasn't as secure as it sounds.