See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War Against TerrorismIn See No Evil, one of the CIA’s top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists. |
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... other Mideast terrorist group involved, as Bob Baer suggests? We don't know, but I'm betting that the facts, when they emerge, will back up Baer's instinct that the attacks in America were not solely the responsibility of someone.
... someone operating out of a cave in Afghanistan. There is another way, too, of looking at See No Evil—as a recruiting poster for the spy business. We can identify with Baer's anger at the perceived foolishness and indecisiveness of top ...
... someone had, he wouldn't have been able to read the venomous headlines. What's more, the CIA was prohibited by British authorities from recruiting sources, even Islamic fundamentalists, in their country. What was the point, then, in ...
... someone was going to pay. In the endless Beltway turf wars, that meant the CIA, and since I was the CIA's man in northern Iraq, that meant me. Never mind that Lake knew Ahmad Chalabi had been tried and convicted for defrauding his own ...
... someone was watching me to see if I was alone. When I called back a half hour later, Scott told me to come on up. With his slicked-back hair, tweed coat, and club tie, Jim Scott looked more like a college-football recruiter than how I ...
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism Robert Baer Limited preview - 2003 |