New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- A top former CIA officer who was posted in Pakistan has made explosive revelations about the United States' tendency to collaborate with dictators, citing former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as an example of an autocrat 'purchased' by Washington.

"Let's be honest here. The United States loves working with dictators, because then you don't have to worry about public opinion and you don't have to worry about the media," John Kiriakou, who was the CIA's chief of counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan in 2002, told news agency ANI, when speaking about Osama Bin Laden's escape from the Tora Bora mountains and the hunt for the 9/11 mastermind shifting to Pakistan.

"Our relations with the Pakistani government we...