Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al QaedaOn September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous fifteen years, his role had been to interpret raw intelligence and report his findings to national security decision makers. But within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, he would be on a military aircraft, flying over the Hindu Kush mountains, en route to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. government's effort to support the fledging government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIA's rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at the FBI. A first-person account of Mudd's role in two organizations that changed dramatically after 9/11, Takedown sheds light on the inner workings of the intelligence community during the global counterterror campaign. |
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... later years, after terrorism at home in america became a concern and two CIa employees were murdered near the front gate. But when I drove up, I immediately found myselfbefore the guard station at the entrance. no concrete barriers, no ...
... later, I returned home to find a flashing red light on my answering machine—the old boxy type that now probably exists only in museums. I rolled the tape and knew instantly, despite my ignorance about intelligence, national security, or ...
... later, to notice an older man (older to me, at least) waiting in the small sitting room of the newsletter offices. This was extremely rare: we were only a handful in the company, and we rarely had unannounced visitors. especially ...
... later that I left. This is the story of what I learned, after growing up and moving up in the CIa and then taking part in the campaign of my generation: the counterterrorism fight after 9/11. It is not only the story of what one lone ...
... later, walking to work ev- ery day along the executive avenue that runs beside the west wing. It seemed more of a TV show set, not a daily commuting route. walking outside you might see some foreign leader you'd only ever heard of in ...
Contents
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2 A Return to Langley | 27 |
Moving Beyond the Core of Al Qaeda | 70 |
The Intelligence Problem of Iraq | 90 |
Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center | 104 |
6 The Years of Threat | 135 |
The FBI Calls | 145 |
Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security | 191 |
Index | 199 |