The attack, which was carried out in a remote area of Kandahar Province, occurred when a guard working for the Afghan intelligence service detonated a suicide vest as a delegation of American coalition members and Afghan intelligence officials arrived at the intelligence office in the Maruf District.
The blast killed Ghulam Rasool, the deputy intelligence director for Kandahar Province, two of his bodyguards, another Afghan intelligence official, and some Americans, including the C.I.A. officer.
An official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said that the Americans did not appear to have been the principal targets but were "in the wrong place at the wrong time." A spokeswoman for the C.I.A. declined to comment.
Insider attacks have been a persistent problem for the international forces and are responsible for about 15 percent of all the deaths of coalition troops this year. There are no public statistics on insider attacks that involve the Afghan intelligence force, the National Directorate of Security, which the C.I.A. has trained and financed.
But this is the first instance this year in which an insider attack by an Afghan intelligence employee is known to have resulted in a death of a member of the NATO-led coalition. The role that American intelligence officials have played in assisting their Afghan counterparts in distant areas of the country exposes them to insurgent attacks. "It was an N.D.S. attack on N.D.S.," the official from the NATO-led command said.
In December 2009, the C.I.A. suffered a setback in Khost, Afghanistan, when a Jordanian double agent, whom the C.I.A. had escorted into a base, blew himself up. That blast killed seven C.I.A. employees, including contractors.
The tradition at the C.I.A. is to put a star on the wall in the lobby at the agency's headquarters to recognize fallen employees.
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