Christopher Ketchum: Former CIA Agent Once Played by George Clooney Explains Why He Quit DC and Is Holing Up in the Rockies
fascinating article on Bob Baer, the guy who wrote the book that the film “Syriana” is based on…
No one knew who was behind the [Beirut] car bombings, least of all the CIA. Solving the mystery became an obsession for Baer, and he set out on a four-year odyssey in the Beirut Station to get the answer … Baer finally concluded, in 1987, that the Islamist regime of Iran, employing local Fatah proxies, was the key player behind the embassy bombing and Buckley kidnapping .. The attacks from Iran’s proxies in Beirut – the bombings of American military and intelligence sites, the kidnapping of Buckley – arguably presented a classic case of history coming back to haunt the CIA in the form of “blowback.”
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