Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's intelligence agency has detained several people who gave information to the United States before the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden, officials in Pakistan said Wednesday. The agency detained several people who cooperated with the CIA, a Pakistani official said; the official did not know the precise number. One rented a safe house to the CIA in Abbottabad, the Pakistani city where U.S. special forces killed bin Laden early May 2, a Pakistani source familiar with the arrests said Wednesday. Some of the CIA sources in Pakistani custody were low-level and not considered crucial, a senior administration official told CNN. The official said the sources were not spying on Pakistan, and therefore should be dealt with leniently.
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White House spokesman calls U.S. relationship with Pakistan "complicated," but "vital"
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CIA Director Leon Panetta talked with Pakistani top brass about failed raids, a source says
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Suspected CIA informants were arrested after the bin Laden raid, an official says
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The arrests could be another blow to the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan
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