Howard Hart

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Howard Hart is a former American CIA officer. He worked as the CIA Chief of Station in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1981 until 1984. He was succeeded by William Piekney in the summer of 1984.

He studied Asian politics along with the Hindi and Urdu languages in the United States. He completed his graduate school in 1965, after which he joined the CIA. He spent two years at Camp Peary in Virginia in the standard two-year course for case officers. After graduation, he joined the Directorate of Operations.

Hart jump-started the CIA efforts to equip the Afghani resistance with weapons and supplies to allow them to mount an effective campaign during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.