See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism
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In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the nonstop entrenchment of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
A veteran case officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in the Middle East, Baer witnessed the rise of terrorism first hand and the CIA’s inadequate response to it, leading to the attacks of September 11, 2001. This riveting book is both an indictment of an agency that lost its way and an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism, and includes a new afterword in which Baer speaks out about the American war on terrorism and its profound implications throughout the Middle East.
“Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground meadow
officer in the Middle East.”
–Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker
From The Preface
This book is a memoir of one foot soldier’s career in the additional cold war, the one against terrorist networks. It’s a tale about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to reflect we don’t need to do business with.
This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am mad about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be mad and alarmed, too.
The CIA was systematically ruined by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency that should have been monitoring them was being scrubbed clean as a replacement for. Americans were building too much money to bother. Life was excellent. The White House and the National Security Council became cathedrals of commerce where the interests of huge business outweighed the interests of protecting American citizens at home and abroad. Defanged and dispirited, the CIA went along for the ride. And then on September 11, 2001, the reckoning for such vast carelessness was open for all the world to see.
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Best part of the book is the map pasted into the inside front take in and first leaf. The rest is tales of woe from the meadow, written for an audience with either a low average IQ (say 85) or a junior high school education.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you like talk radio with its endless drivel, lack of appealing theme matter, and blaming privileged ups for mistakes, lacking any real plot or message, then you need to immediately buy this book. You will like it. This is the fodder for every conspiracy theorist and the aluminum foil hat crowd.
If, on the additional hand, you are looking for an appealing read with colorful characters, a tale that you care about, and an appealing and compelling writing style that makes a book a must read, paging turning, you can not place down adventure, stay away from this book. It will be a waste of time for you.
I fall into the latter category, and was ultimately looking to be entertained. This book failed in all but a few areas.
The leader is obviously not a trained writer, except, as the leader likes to repeatedly point out (nearly to point of silliness), the master of inter-office CIA memoranda. Well, memos aren’t appealing, and neither is this book. Its not that the theme matter was dull, Baer certainly lived in an appealing time period and had an appealing career, he just can’t write to save his life.
What parts of his career were fascinating, such as about 50 pages about Tajikistan, could have been made riveting by a decent writer, and as a replacement for it comes off like a Foders Guide. Even his ride in a T-72 Tank and nearly getting abducted by Afghan fighters was passed over in a dull narrative more akin to a travelog. Rick Atkinson (a trained leader specializing in military history) could have made this a nail biting, white knuckle yarn, suitable for a whole series of Tom Clancyesque movies. But Baer’s writing style place me to sleep.
Meanwhile, his message, which is the CIA during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton terms were nincompoops, and he was the only meadow agent with a brain, really comes off like self serving, see ya, I was right, self promotional pablum. I don’t doubt the accuracy of the text, nor the leader’s sincerity, I just establish the book to be dull, self absorbed, talk radio blame game.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have not read much of the book yet but, so far I am intrigued.
Service was brilliant and product as advertised.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic book. It is well-written and pursuasive. If it is right, it is an vital book. Sorry to say, it is inherently incredible that anyone who really feels that way Baer claims to feel would have Seymour Hersh write the Foreward. Seymour Hersh has done as much as anyone to ruin the CIA and leaders who have the back-bone to use the type of human intelligence that Baer advocates. Hersh, and additional liberal dogmatists like him, have emasculated this country–we need leaders like Nixon and Kissinger before the CIA will regain its place in the world. Hersh, and additional like him, have made that impossible. The CIA has been imasculated, and all Americans are in grave danger, as Baer argues. Sorry to say, it happened on Hersh’s watch. Thus, Baer’s entire argument is undermined by have Hersh introduce the book. And Hersh, once again, shows himself to be a hypocrite, by now advocating the type of “dirty” business that he has, in his hypocricial fashion, heretofore condemned. Bear cannot be telling the truth if he is in bed with Hersh.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you liked the movie Syriana, you won’t like the book or the poorly written autobiography by Robert Baer. It’s a rehash of 9/11 failures …there is nothing new here, not even a excellent description of CIA tradecraft. The close is predictable: “Are we not arresting the target we can rather than the target we should”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5