Book description
See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from
one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century.
Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war
on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East,
with blistering honesty. He paints a chilling picture of how terrorism
works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how
Washington sabotaged the CIA's efforts to root out the world's
deadliest terrorists. See No Evil is an unprecedented
examination of the roots of modern terrorism and the CIA's failure to
acknowledge and neutralise the growing fundamentalist threat, and an
engrossing memoir of Baer's education as an intelligence operative.
See No Evil includes revelations about the strategic alliance
Osama bin Laden forged with Iran in 1996 to mastermind terrorist
attacks on the United States and elsewhere, about the planned coup
d'etat against Saddam Hussein and how it was aborted by the National
Security Council, and about the CIA's disastrous decision in 1991 to
shut down its operations in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, ignoring the
fundamentalists working in those countries.
An extraordinary testimony that has become even more vital and
damning since the events of 9/11 and the subsequent War on Iraq.
Robert Baer was a case officer in the Directorate of Operations
for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1997. He served in
places such as Iraq, Dushanbe, Rabat, Beirut, Khartoum, and New Delhi,
and received the Career Intelligence Medal in 1997. He now divides his
time between Washington, D. C., and France.
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."
