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06/01/2006
Robert Baer
A conversation with guest host Brian Ross and author Robert Baer
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Guest host Brian Ross talks with crime writer and former CIA insider Robert Baer about Baer's book "Blow the House Down".
Robert Baer
Robert Baer is an author and former case officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. During his twenty year CIA career, Baer has publicly acknowledged field assignments in Madras and New Delhi, India; in Beirut, Lebanon; in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and in Salah al-Din in Kurdish northern Iraq. While in Salah al-Din Baer unsuccessfully urged the Clinton Administration to back an internal Iraqi attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein (organized by a group of Sunni military officers, the Iraqi National Congress' Ahmad Chalabi, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Jalal Talabani) in March of 1995 with covert CIA assistance. Baer quit the Agency in 1997 and received the CIA's Career Intelligence Medal on March 11, 1998. Baer wrote the book "See No Evil" documenting his experiences while working for the Agency.
Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer
Robert Baer is an author and former case officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. During his twenty year CIA career, Baer has publicly acknowledged field assignments in Madras and New Delhi, India; in Beirut, Lebanon; in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and in Salah al-Din in Kurdish northern Iraq. While in Salah al-Din Baer unsuccessfully urged the Clinton Administration to back an internal Iraqi attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein (organized by a group of Sunni military officers, the Iraqi National Congress' Ahmad Chalabi, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Jalal Talabani) in March of 1995 with covert CIA assistance. Baer quit the Agency in 1997 and received the CIA's Career Intelligence Medal on March 11, 1998. Baer wrote the book "See No Evil" documenting his experiences while working for the Agency.
Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer
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