>> reporter: who told him the cia was waiting for him to show up at an operating base in afghanistan? a u.s. counter terrorism official tells cnn the u.s. assumes the jordanians prepared him so he would not be surprised to see americans at the meeting but that he would have been offered few specifics about their identifies. but no one can explain how we knew the meeting included the cia. by any measure, that would have been very closely held. a jordanian source told cnn any information given to al-balawi by their man had to have approval. the source wouldn't go into detail. he was coming with valuable information. some of his previous tips checked out, but would the u.s. have risked telling him specifically that he was about to meet the cia? why tell him such sensitive information? and, wolf, still unanswered --