See No Evil : The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the Cia's War on Terrorism (Paperback)

from freddiefreddie

Baer's account of his time in the CIA is an exercise in disillusionment. You too will begin to see how things really work - not just at the CIA, but in Washington, too. You'll find there is no conspiracy but the one to keep up the illusion that the government is acting in our best interest. If yo...

from pratalife

If anything, the book is even more chillingly convincing than the movie it inspired: Syriana.You may not believe the full extent to which oil can so blatantly pervert the course of politics and corporate behaviour, but where there's smoke, there must be fire, right? This book delivers plently of ...

from pratalife

If anything, the book is even more chillingly convincing than the movie it inspired: Syriana.You may not believe the full extent to which oil can so blatantly pervert the course of politics and corporate behaviour, but where there's smoke, there must be fire, right? This book delivers plently of ...

from stacy_chambers

No one should expect Baer to be as eloquent as Shakespeare, but he does paint a vivid picture of how things were for CIA agents on the ground during the eighties and nineties. Things began to change in the late nineties, with CIA agents looking more to forward their careers than gather intelligen...

from pratalife

If anything, the book is even more chillingly convincing than the movie it inspired: Syriana.You may not believe the full extent to which oil can so blatantly pervert the course of politics and corporate behaviour, but where there's smoke, there must be fire, right? This book delivers plently of ...