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See No Evil : The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War NEW BOOK ON CD
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- Condition
- Type
- Audiobook
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Run Time
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Narrator
- Robert Baer
- ISBN
- 9780739324134
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- See No Evil : the True Story of a Ground Soldier in the Cia's War ON Terrorism
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Intelligence & Espionage, General, American Government / General
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Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East. --Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker Robert Baer was] one of the most talented Middle East case officers of the past twenty years. --Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic Monthly 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 refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere. A throwback to the days when CIA operatives got results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the world's most volatile hot spots. As he and his agents risked their lives gathering intelligence, he watched as the CIA reduced drastically its operations overseas, failed to put in place people who knew local languages and customs, and rewarded workers who knew how to play the political games of the agency's suburban Washington headquarters but not how to recruit agents on the ground. See No Evil is not only a candid memoir of the education and disillusionment of an intelligence operative but also an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism. Baer reveals some of the disturbing details he uncovered in his work, including: * In 1996, Osama bin Laden established a strategic alliance with Iran to coordinate terrorist attacks against the United States. * In 1995, the National Security Council intentionally aborted a military coup d'etat against Saddam Hussein, forgoing the last opportunity to get rid of him. * In 1991, the CIA intentionally shut down its operations in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, and ignored fundamentalists operating there. When Baer left the agency in 1997 he received the Career Intelligence Medal, with a citation that says, He repeatedly put himself in personal danger, working the hardest targets, in service to his country. See No Evil is Baer's frank assessment of an agency that forgot that service to country must transcend politics and is a forceful plea for the CIA to return to its original mission--the preservation of our national sovereignty and the American way of life. From The PrefaceThis book is a memoir of one foot soldier's career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks. It's a story about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to think we don't need to do business with. This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am angry about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be angry and alarmed, too. The CIA was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency tha
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0739324136
ISBN-13
9780739324134
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46881062
Product Key Features
Book Title
See No Evil : the True Story of a Ground Soldier in the Cia's War ON Terrorism
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, General, American Government / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
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4.9in.
Item Height
1in.
Item Width
5.7in.
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
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Abridged Edition
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"See No Evil is a compelling account of America's failed efforts to 'listen in' on the rest of the world, especially the parts of it that intend to do us harm." Wall Street Journal "Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East." Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, "See No Evil is a compelling account of America's failed efforts to 'listen in' on the rest of the world, especially the parts of it that intend to do us harm." Wall Street Journal "Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East." Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Dewey Decimal
327.1273/0092 B
Dewey Edition
21
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