Frank Anderson, former head of the Afghan Task Force
Stanley Arkin, prominent New York attorney
Milton Bearden, former chief, Islamabad
Richard Betts, professor at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
Vinx Blocker, former senior Latin America operations officer
Ed Boring, former senior Latin America operations officer
Brian Bramson, former chief of operations, Counter Narcotics Center
Jay Brant, former senior Latin America operations officer
John Breckenridge, former senior operations officer, Europe
Tim Burton, former chief of logistics for the Afghan Task Force
Morris Busby, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia
Richard Calder, former deputy director for administration
Richard Coffman, former senior CIA officer
Charles Cogan, former chief, Near East and South Asia Division; and associate, Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
David Cohen, former associate deputy director for intelligence
Claude Connelly, former senior Middle East operations officer
Jeffrey Davidow, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, South Africa, Venezuela, and Zambia
Carol Rollie Flynn, former special assistant to the deputy director of operations
Randall Forte, former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research
Norm Gardner, former chief of staff to deputy director of operations
Robert Gelbard, former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia and Indonesia and assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs
Barry Gibson, former senior Latin America operations officer
Mary Margaret Graham, former deputy director of national intelligence for collection, DNI
Sandra Grimes, former member of the Ames mole hunt team and author
Brad Handley, former senior support officer, Directorate of Administration
Dorothy Hanson, former special assistant to the CIA director
General Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director
John Helgerson, former CIA inspector general
John Hillen, former assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs
John Kambourian, former senior Latin America operations officer
Gerald Komisar, former director of Crime and Narcotics Center
Brian Latell, author and former senior CIA Latin America analyst
Kathy Lavinder, founder of Security and Investigative Placement Consultants
Michael Levien, cofounder of LexPro Research
William Luers, Colombia University professor and former U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela
David Manners, former senior Middle East operations officer
Lieutenant General Kenneth Minihan, former NSA and DIA director
Hugh Montgomery, former CIA national intelligence officer and former director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, and ambassador
Paul R. Pillar, Georgetown University professor and former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and senior director of intelligence analysis
Thomas Polgar, former chief of station, Saigon
Ted Price, former deputy director of operations
Paul Redmond, former deputy chief of Counterintelligence Center and assistant secretary for information analysis at Department of Homeland Security
Martin Roeber, former deputy of Counter Narcotics Center and deputy chief of Latin America Division
Dr. Marc Sageman, terrorism expert, author, and forensic psychiatrist
Tom Sheridan, former analyst for Afghan imagery, Directorate of Intelligence
Jacqueline Shire, member, United Nations Panel of Experts (Iran)
Admiral William O. Studeman, former NSA director and CIA deputy director
Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz, psychiatrist and founder, Boswell Group LLC
Gerald Svat, former deputy chief, Latin America Division
Robert Thomson, partner, Fortitude Partners
Thomas Twetten, former deputy director of operations
William Wagner, former senior officer, Latin America
Raymond Warren, former chief of station, Santiago
Winston Wiley, former deputy director for intelligence
Robert Williams, former Afghan Task Force military analyst and retired infantry officer
Vice Admiral (Ret.) Thomas Wilson, former director of Defense Intelligence Agency
Joseph Wippl, Boston University professor and former chief of Europe division
Frank Wisner, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, India, and the Philippines
James Woolsey, former CIA director
Notes
INTRODUCTION
1. Bob Drogin, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War (New York: Random House, 2007).
1. INSIDE THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
2. MULES, PICKUP TRUCKS, AND STINGER MISSILES
3. “YOUR FRIEND CALLED FROM THE AIRPORT”
4. “WE NEED TO POLYGRAPH HIM”
5. “JACK, THIS CHANGES IT ALL, DOESN’T IT?”
6. DO I LIE TO THE POPE, OR BREAK COVER?
7. SELLING THE LINEAR STRATEGY, ONE LUNCH AT A TIME
8. JOUSTING WITH THE SOVIETS: WHEN I KNEW IT WAS OVER