Robert Baer Seymour Hersh (2 results)

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. 1ª Edición. Baer, Robert//Foreword by Seymour M. Hersh As New. 1st Edition. First Edition/ 284 pages with index and photographs. In this remarkable book, that became the basis for the George Clooney film, Syriana, one of the top CIA field agents of the past quarter century, recounts his career of running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East.nice. ESTABEDANDCHA.

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. Third printing. New York: Crown Publishers, 2002. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (25.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Illustrated with double-page map and 8 pages of photographs. Glossary. Index. Bound in the original red boards, with cream color spine. Sharp corners. A number of words/lines in the book have been redacted by CIA censors, apparently because the content is classified. From the Dust Jacket: "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.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Third printing. Hard Cover. New condition./New dust jacket. 8vo. xix, 284pp.