by Robert Baer, Daniel Roche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070428540
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«La Chute de la CIA» is the autobiographical account of CIA agent Robert Baer, published by Gallimard in paperback (388 pages, in French).
Robert Baer recounts his twenty years in the CIA and his fight against Islamism in Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Central Asia and Iraq. He describes the brakes from the White House, disputes among technocrats, the oil lobby, the rise of international terrorism and the Islamist networks and petrodollars that fuelled Al Qaeda.
The work is the French translation of the original 'See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism', published in 2002, and is part of the Folio Documents collection.
For readers interested in espionage, Middle East geopolitics and the recent history of terrorism.
Robert Booker Baer is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East. He is Time's intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Baer speaks eight languages, won the CIA Career Intelligence Medal and is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, espionage, and U.S. foreign policy. He hosted the History reality television series Hunting Hitler. He is an Intelligence and Security Analyst for CNN. His book See No Evil was adapted by the director Stephen Gaghan and used as the basis for the film Syriana, with George Clooney playing Baer's character.
