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CIA director Leon Panetta made top-secret trip to Turkey

Leon Panetta, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, made a highly confidential visit to Ankara in late March to discuss the unfolding situation in the Arab world.
During classified conversations with Turkish officials, Panetta and his staff called the riots in Libya a "crisis," and the rising sentiment against Syrian President Bashar Assad was referred to as being at "a critical threshold."