Washington: "My life was completely destroyed... my wife left... I've been living in my motorhome camping for 18 years now," said former CIA counterproliferation officer Richard Barlow, who stated that he had to pay a devastating personal price for exposing Pakistan's clandestine nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s and seeing his life shattered by the very government he served.

In an interview with ANI, Barlow recounted how his relentless pursuit of truth led to professional sabotage, personal ruin, the end of his marriage, and nearly two decades of homelessness, all while Pakistan successfully built and proliferated the "Islamic bomb".

According to the former CIA officer, his ordeal began in 1985 when he joined the intelligence agency as a specialist on Pakistan's nuclear procuremen

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