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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (2 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099445549
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099445548
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 11.1 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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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. Not only is this an unprecedented examination of the roots of modern terrorism and the CIA's failure to acknowledge and neutralise the growing fundamentalist threat, it is an engrossing memoir of Baer's education and disillusionment as an intelligence operative. 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." "See No Evil" is Baer's frank assessment of an agency that forgot that "service to country" must transcend politics and is a forceful plea for the CIA to return to its original mission - the preservation of American national sovereignty and the American way of life.


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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, Worrying, Real and Brilliantly Uncomfortable, 27 May 2007
By Gaurav Sharma (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a highly readable account by Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who was on the frontline of the US agency, instituted to protect its citizens. As a journalist myself, very rarely have I come across a non-fiction title which has generated such an interest in academia, press, citizenry of the world (not just US readers) and has even inspired a movie since it was first published in 2002. The reason, in my opinion is that Baer has tried to tell (and sell) it like it is.

It is not some sort of pseudo-liberal rant or a knee-jerk reaction to a Republican administration. He's equally critical of both sides of the American political divide and of the agency itself. For instance, Baer, himself fluent in Arabic, suggests in See No Evil, that in the later years of his career there, the CIA faced a shortage of Arabic speaking agents. That it had become temporarily archaic given the Cold War was over and there was no visible enemy!

I have read this book twice and appreciated it twice over. For the sake of a critical standpoint, I tried to analyse if Baer had made a slip in his narrative or made some uncustomary political rant. I feel that he has not. He put his life on the line for his country. So via this book if he has decided to have his say - he deserves to be heard. The current geopolitical climate makes it all the more relevant.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a clear account of the CIA's failings, 29 May 2003
By N Gittings (Manchester, Lancashire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This book provides a fascinating insight into the counter terrorism failings of the CIA, which were graphically illustrated by the events of Sept 2001. Robert Baer gives the reader a lucid account of the CIA's operations in the counter terrorism fields of the middle east from the mid 1970's to date. In particular, his writing provides an insight into how terrorist networks operate and interact and the difficulties in inflitrating such organisations from the outside, along with the CIA's reliance on technological espionage over human contacts (which effectively curtailed the quality of information available to them), and the gradual overtaking of intelligence gathering by political survival (especially oil interests).
Baer spends a great deal of time analysing the 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut to determine the true perpetrators of this crime, arriving at some interesting conclusions, whilst also giving a very good account of what it must have been like to operate in Beirut in the early 1980's at the height of the troubles there.

The book also provides some great detail regarding the situation in Iraq and the proposed 1996 uprising by Kurds, defecting Iraqi generals and the INC, which was eventually vetoed by the White House at the last minute. This section has taken on a new relevance in light of the recent invasion, and raises serious questions about the need for the war in 2003 given the opportunities available in both 1991 and 1996 to overthrow Saddam.

However, for me, the most interesting part of this book was its take on Iran, who according to Baer are the principal sponsors (and indeed perpetrators) of terrorism in the 1980's and 1990's. If the US is indeed keen on eradicating terrorism as we know it, and if Baer's observations are correct, then it is no doubt only a matter of time before the US will go after them in some form. Such a move could have grave consequences for people all around the world, igniting much of the animosity in the middle east towards the US even further.

All in all, a fascinating book that really does give the reader an insight into the intricate web that is terrorism, espionage and global politics, whilst retaining a great deal of relevance in today's turbulent climate.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Impassioned cry from a footsoldier in the war on terror, 7 Jun 2006
By Mr. Warren M. Fisher (East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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A chilling, gripping read from a CIA operative who policed the deadly back-alleys of the Middle East. Like many in the intelligence and special ops world, Baer found his true enemies in Washington, amongst his politically-minded careerist bosses and corrupt and timid politicians of all colours. Whilst human intel was sidelined by hi-tech electronic intelliegnce gathering, the higher ups in DC and at Langley curtailed the best efforts of Baer and his comrades to fight the growing threat of Islamic terror. Cynically, politicians ignored Baer's work, pinning the blame for terrorist outrages on easy stooges like Libya and Iraq, while all the time ignoring the likes of Syria and Iran. Indeed it is Iran that Baer states lies behind most if not all of the terrorist attacks of the last two decades (right up to and including Bin Laden and Al Qaeda).

Perhaps the most chilling and inflammatory of Baer accustaions regard the influence of big business and the oil industry in particular. While this was present in the Republican administrations of the '80's, it was during Clinton's eight year reign in Washington that corruptiion reached its appogee. Secretary of State Warren Christopher's son and National Security Advisor Anthony Lake's wife were both given high-paying jobs with an oil company involved in a state-sponsored pipeline deal. Dirty foreign money virtually ran the Clinton election campaigns. Baer was appalled by these actions and blew the whistle. He was driven to the brink by the hounding of Lake in particular (he calls in the FBI when Baer is implicated in a plot to elimninate Saddam Hussein, and a later plotted coup to oust Saddam is shut down by Lake and the White House). Liberal propagandists choose to ignore the rampant misdeeds of the Democratic Clinton administration, propogating myths that big business corruption is the preserve of the Republicans.

A scathing expose, a gripping read, this is an indispensible book by a remarkable man.
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