A source had been tracking the operative, and one day sent Mr. Laux a text message "*73"— the signal that the operative was in a specific location.
When the car arrived at the airport and pulled up to the plane ready to take Davis out of Pakistan, the C.I.A. operative was in a daze.
The 29 June co-operative is in a rundown corner of Rome, but one that exudes an air of social and environmental responsibility.
But today the steely-eyed 33-year-old operative is in Syria, leading a group of clandestine al-Qaeda operatives called "Khorasan," which some American officials said may be more dangerous in some respects than the Islamic State.
One document in the C.I.A. binder said operatives were "in a position to deliver Shaykh Musa to your physical custody, similar to what we have done with other senior L.I.F.G. members in the recent past".
David Ogwang, a Ugandan livelihoods specialist who will be working with Farm Africa in Katine, said the co-operative was in a key position to support the community, because it was now obvious that people cannot rely on the state to provide adequate basic services in this part of Uganda.
"And al-Zarqawi, an Al Qaeda operative, was in Baghdad.
The F.B.I. operative is dressed in a blue blazer and striped tie; he's like some prep-school student seated in front of a particularly invidious headmaster.
But an e-mail that Bannon sent to a friend in 2015, and that was later leaked to the Daily Beast, confirms that the elevation of the Mercers and their operatives was, in many ways, a formality.
William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard and an adamant Trump opponent, warned, "It's the merger of the Trump campaign with the kooky right". But an e-mail that Bannon sent to a friend in 2015, and that was later leaked to the Daily Beast, confirms that the elevation of the Mercers and their operatives was, in many ways, a formality.
In the United Arab Emirates, similar concerns escalated this year after a Palestinian operative was killed in a hotel in Dubai, possibly by a team from the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
