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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... afghanistan. everywhere we went, people talked about the same man: his name, hamid Karzai, cropped up in every ... afghanistan's future but to afghans inside the country as well. how to assist in cobbling together a new government of ...
... afghanistan's legendary warring factions. I had a modest role in his team, but at that time, in fall 2001, the CIa had a huge role in providing covert support to the afghan elements that ousted the Taliban. I had spent a career as a ...
... afghanistan had gone through many years of Soviet-backed dictators and internecine civil conflict since the late 1970s, but there was still the vestige ofa government. It made sense to pay homage to that remaining leadership, or at the ...
... afghanistan in the post-Soviet days a decade earlier. The U.S. government once supported those dedicated to the ouster of the Soviet-backed government; we were now turning to those guerrilla groups of a decade before, after we had left ...
... afghanistan and key countries to settle on a transition plan. The Bonn meeting was to negotiate an agreement for an interim government among previously warring factions and chart a new way ahead. The atmosphere is worth remembering ...
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 |