The US military’s intelligence chief in Afghanistan has criticised the work of spy agencies, terming them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people. In a report issued by the Center for New American Security think tank, Major General Michael Flynn described US intelligence officials as ignorant of local economics, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced. The report, which highlighted lack of coordination between military and intelligence agencies, urged changes such as focus on gathering more information on a wider range of issues at grassroot level. The report described the main problems as attitudinal, cultural, and human, saying US intelligence community is strangely oblivious of how little its analytical products actually influence commanders.Flynn wrote in the report that eight years into the war in Afghanistan, the US intelligence community is only marginally relevant to the overall strategy. He asserted that instead of mounting a counterinsurgency, the intelligence community has fallen into the trap of waging an anti-insurgency campaign aimed at capturing or killing mid-to-high level militants. The report said the intelligence community had enough analysts in Afghanistan but too many are simply in the wrong places and assigned to the wrong jobs.The report came as a suicide bomber killed seven CIA officers at a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan last week. It is reported that the bomber was a double agent used by CIA to infiltrate Al-Qaeda.