See No Evil

See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIAs top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIAs 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 CIAs efforts to root out the worlds deadliest terrorists. See No Evil is an unprecedented examination of the roots of modern terrorism and the CIAs failure to acknowledge and neutralise the growing fundamentalist threat, and an engrossing memoir of Baers 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 detat against Saddam Hussein and how it was aborted by the National Security Council, and about the CIAs 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.