American_Spy_-_H._K._Roy

284 AMERICAN SPY pursue American interests abroad than when we truly lived and breathed American exceptionalism. Trump’s disgrac ...

EPILOGUE APRIL 2019, BAGHDAD, IRAQ I realize that I declared up front that I’m all Iraq’d out. I really meant it. You may recall ...

286 EPILOGUE Another sign that Iraq has shed its violent past in favor of a better future is the quasi-comical hipster invasion ...

EPILOGUE 287 simultaneously. More shoaling than schooling. Like switching to soy milk, Baghdad traffic takes some getting used t ...

288 EPILOGUE One cannot simply apply for and receive an exit visa at Baghdad Inter- national Airport. No, that would make too mu ...

EPILOGUE 289 pay the bribe, for a variety of reasons. We were at risk of going out of busi- ness after fifteen strong years in I ...

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to give a shout-out and extend a sincere “thank you,” “shukran,” “gracias,” “spasibo,” “grazie,” an ...

294 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “Scott,” “Amy,” “AK,” Ted Price, Burton Gerber, and dozens of other CIA colleagues, instructors, mentors, CO ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 295 To Ceca for your thirty years of professionalism and friendship. I’m pretty sure you’ll recognize yourself i ...

296 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS early on and for taking the time to provide insightful “big picture” guid- ance, which was, without fail, sp ...

NOTES CHAPTER 1: BETRAYAL IN THE BALKANS: HILLARY SENT ME, BUT BILL NEARLY GOT ME KILLED In CIA circles, the name is spelled “U ...

298 NOTES Shipments to Bosnia, H.R. Rep., No. 105-804 (1998), https://www.congress.gov/ congressional-report/105th-congress/hous ...

NOTES 299 -report-by-independent-experts-affirms-that-the-government-of-president-ortega-has -committed-crimes-against-humanity/ ...

300 NOTES Dexter Filkins, “The Shadow Commander,” New Yorker, September 30, 2013, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30 ...

NOTES 301 Synopsis: First line: Vowing to avenge the horrific death of his Bosnian girlfriend, Caruso [an American] returns to ...

302 NOTES Synopsis: The CIA gets wind of Caruso’s (private) activities and solicits his cooperation against the war criminal. Mo ...

NOTES 303 CHAPTER 24: TRIBALISM “The Origins of Shiite Islam,” Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 2007, https://www .csmonitor. ...