American_Spy_-_H._K._Roy

244 AMERICAN SPY with thousands of other pilgrims and tourists, I then wandered through the bustling al-Hamidiyah Souk, the larg ...

TRAVELS IN ARABIA 245 A few years before my bumper car send-off from Damascus, I made my first trip to Sulaymaniyah (“Suly”) in ...

246 AMERICAN SPY mental to Turkey, the paranoid Turks were suspicious of this American with stated plans to assist the Iraqi Kur ...

TRAVELS IN ARABIA 247 and led to the signing of Babylon Inc.’s largest contract to date. (A contract the KRG would later breach. ...

248 AMERICAN SPY being targeted by insurgents. Pilots were required to take this precaution after a DHL cargo plane was hit by a ...

TRAVELS IN ARABIA 249 roads were overrun with a wide variety of military vehicles, from Humvees to MRAPs. There was no escaping ...

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PART VIII BRUSHES WITH CELEBRITY ...

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CHAPTER 26 DID I INSPIRE AN SNL SKIT? I n the late 1980s, after returning to DC for specialized training prior to my onward CIA ...

254 AMERICAN SPY Displeased by my vague and evasive answers, Lovitz mercilessly turned up the heat. “Did you fart?” he asked me, ...

CHAPTER 27 BREAKING BAD IN TIJUANA M y former CIA colleague Bob Baer is now a celebrity author, jour- nalist, and intelligence a ...

256 AMERICAN SPY my friend “Don Chuy” to illustrate the bad guy side of the equation. Dis- cretion and the fact that relevant st ...

CHAPTER 28 SITTING NEXT TO A ROCK STAR I ’m guessing that most people, if asked who they’d most like to sit next to in an airpla ...

258 AMERICAN SPY unmarked hallways in the headquarters basement to a ground-floor, Pen- tagon-worthy smorgasbord of CIA souvenir ...

SITTING NEXT TO A ROCK STAR 259 Inc., me included, would segregate himself from his colleagues inside an office or cubicle. Had ...

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PART IX THE SPY WHO CAME DOWN WITH A COLD ...

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CHAPTER 29 IGNORE MY INTELLIGENCE AT YOUR PERIL (I AM NOT AS STUPID AS I LOOK) A former Bulgarian friend of mine, when trying to ...