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See No Evil

The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

by Robert Baer
Robertson Dean
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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.”—The Wall Street Journal

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the continued entrenchment of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
A veteran case officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in the Middle East, Baer witnessed the rise of terrorism first hand and the CIA’s inadequate response to it, leading to the attacks of September 11, 2001. This riveting book is both an indictment of an agency that lost its way and an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism, and includes a new afterword in which Baer speaks out about the American war on terrorism and its profound implications throughout the Middle East.
“Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East.”–Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker

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    August 2, 2005

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      • ISBN: 9780739353653
      • File size: 316380 KB
      • Duration: 10:59:07

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This insider account by a former member of the CIA's Directorate of Operations is a frank indictment of the agency's tactics and loss of focus in the years leading up to the 9/11 attacks (and inspired the film SYRIANA). The author, stationed in Iraq and the Middle East for many years, forcefully articulates the reasons for the CIA's shortsightedness. Narrator Robertson Dean has exactly the right voice for this book. His deep, rich tone is authoritative without being foreboding, and his pacing keeps the book moving. Dean uses pauses and emphasis to make complicated plot twists easy to follow, which is quite an accomplishment with this book because some names and passages were excised by the CIA. R.I.G. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Although the author/narrator lacks a trained voice, his muttered, sometimes hesitant speech makes him more believable as an intelligence-gatherer--trained more to listen than to talk. Robert Baer's abridged work leaps by place and time, illuminating the CIA field officer's career from recruitment to retirement, with lots of detailed recollections culled from twenty years of clandestine Middle Eastern operations. Due to government censorship of the manuscript, the reader must interject, "words blacked out" at the most annoying times. However, the stuff that does slip through gives ample detail of how these guys bribe, steal, intoxicate, and deceive to gain vital information. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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