American_Spy_-_H._K._Roy

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AMERICAN Spy ...

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H. K. ROY Wry AMERICAN SPY Reflections on my Life in the CIA ...

Published 2019 by Prometheus Books American Spy: Wry Reflections on My Life in the CIA. Copyright © 2019 by H. K. Roy. All right ...

To the men and women of the CIA, past, present, and future. To NA, SC, and MS. To FJ and ML. To SJ, CM, and JF. ...

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7 CONTENTS Preface 11 A Note about Secrecy 17 Abbreviations 19 PART I: BALKAN TRILOGY Chapter 1: Betrayal in the Balkans: Hillar ...

8 CONTENTS PART IV: RUSSIAN SPIES Chapter 12: CIA vs. KGB 125 Chapter 13: How—and Why—to Recruit a Russian Spy 133 PART V: CIA F ...

PART IX: THE SPY WHO CAME DOWN WITH A COLD - (I Am Not As Stupid As I Look) Chapter 29: Ignore My Intelligence at Your Peril ...

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PREFACE JANUARY 2019, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO A s I watch a squadron of brown pelicans cruise by in formation, stall, then splas ...

12 PREFACE and elsewhere in the Middle East and wrestling with issues like this, seven days a week for fifteen years, have taken ...

PREFACE 13 reports, sent via secure satellite phone from Sarajevo during the siege and Srebrenica massacre, were passed directly ...

14 PREFACE Later, President Obama’s government foolishly pulled the plug on an extremely valuable collaboration with my company ...

PREFACE 15 power. If US presidents and policy makers continue to ignore or politicize the CIA, the “American empire” may be very ...

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A NOTE ABOUT SECRECY W hen I joined the CIA in 1983, new hires were required to sign a secrecy agreement during the first week o ...

18 A NOTE ABOUT SECRECY Only close friends, family, and a handful of hostile foreign intelligence services are aware of my forme ...

ABBREVIATIONS AQI al-Qaeda in Iraq BREN brief encounter CA covert action CE Central Eurasia CI counterintelligence commo communi ...