See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War Against Terrorism

✍ Scribed by Baer, Robert

• Book ID: 108494118
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781400045983

✦ Synopsis

In 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.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the terrible result of that intelligence failure with the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the wake of those attacks, Americans were left wondering how such an obviously long-term, globally coordinated plot could have escaped detection by the CIA and taken the nation by surprise. Robert Baer was not surprised. A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the post--cold war world and...