How a CIA sham meant to hunt down Osama Bin Laden swelled antivaxx sentiment in Pakistan A fake vaccination campaign designed to confirm Bin laden's location harmed legitimate vaccine programs in the country years later. Osama bin Laden. Credit: Public Domain. In 2011, the CIA constructed an elaborate ruse involving a fake vaccination program in a town in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was suspected to be hiding. The agency recruited a senior Pakistani doctor who, under cover of a mass immunization campaign, had to obtain DNA samples of children living in a compound in the town to confirm the location of what was then the world’s most wanted man.