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10 Stephen Grey, ‘Let’s Talk: Ex-MI6 Man Plans Terror Summit’, Sunday Times, 12 December 2004.
11 Alan J. Kuperman, ‘The Stinger Missile and U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan’, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 114, No. 2, Summer 1999. His study was quoted in Peter Dale Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), p. 5.
12 Suzanne Goldenberg, ‘Rioting as Sharon Visits Islam Holy Site’, Guardian, 29 September 2000.
13 Peter Beaumont, ‘How a British Coup Ended Siege’, Observer, 12 May 2002.
14 Many details from Beaumont, as before.
15 ‘Document Seized in (November 2002) in the Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Compound in Gaza’, issued 2 September 2005, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Israel: available at www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/19270.
16 Alastair Crooke, ‘Permanent Temporariness’, London Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 5, 3 March 2011 (hereafter Crooke, LRB article).
17 Documents leaked to the Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera, which they named ‘The Palestine Papers’.
18 Crooke LRB article.
19 Inigo Gilmore, ‘Ex-MI6 Officer Acts as Broker in Hamas Talks’, Daily Telegraph, 1 September 2002.
20 Chris McGreal, ‘UK Recalls MI6 Link to Palestinian Militants’, Guardian, 24 September 2003.
21 Sir Richard Dearlove, testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry, 13 July 2010, p. 55.
Chapter 11: Vaccination
1 Hansard, House of Commons Debate on International Affairs, 10 November 1932, Vol. 270, cc. 525–641: available at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com.
2 Compound details and diagrams provided by US Department of Defense: available at www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/security/seen-from-the-sky-where-bin-laden-was-killed/9013.
3 Interview with Admiral William McRaven, The Situation Room, CNN, 28 July 2012.
4 Peter L. Bergen, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden – From 9/11 to Abbottabad (New York, Crown Publishers, 2012), p. 230.
5 Mark Bowden, The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden (Grove Press UK, 2012), Kindle location 1511.
6 This was first told in the unauthorized account of the raid by the Navy SEAL Mark Owen, No Easy Day (New York, Penguin, 2012), but the scene also featured in Zero Dark Thirty.
7 As described by Gary Schroen, the leader of one of the CIA’s ‘Jawbreaker’ teams that was dispatched to Afghanistan, in his book First In (New York, Presidio Press, 2005), p. 38.
8 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, ‘Committee Study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program’ (hereafter Senate Torture report), declassified 3 December 2013, pp. 378–400.
9 Quoted by Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst, in ‘“ZDT” Gets the CIA Wrong’, Salon, 18 January 2013.
10 Bergen, Manhunt, p. 90.
11 Ibid., p. 100.
12 Bowden, The Finish, Kindle location 1680.
13 Senator John McCain, Congressional Record (Senate), 12 May 2011: available at www.fas.org/irp/congress/2011_cr/torture.html.
14 Senate Torture report, p. 384.
15 Senator John McCain, Congressional Record (Senate), 12 May 2011: available at www.fas.org/irp/congress/2011_cr/torture.html.
16 Senate Torture report, p. 399.
17 Ibid., p. 382.
18 Bowden, The Killing, Kindle location 1794.
19 As detailed by former CIA Counterterrorism Center officers Gary Schroen and Hank Crumpton in separate interviews. Schroen was interviewed for PBS Frontline’s ‘The Dark Side’, June 2006. Crumpton was interviewed for CBS’s 60 Minutes, 13 May 2012.
20 Bergen, Manhunt, p. 131.
21 Both quotes from Nada Bakos, ‘“ZDT” Gets the CIA Wrong’, Salon, 18 January 2013.
22 Henry A. Crumpton, The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service (New York, Penguin, 2012), p. 71.
23 Ibid., p. 70.
24 Author interview with Paul Pillar, November 2013.
25 Author interview and email exchange with Sir David Omand, 2010 and 2014.
26 Ibid.
27 BBC News website, 19 December 2013: available at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25450555.
28 Jason Bennetto, ‘British Terrorist Plotted Wave of Attacks to Emulate 11 September’, Independent, 7 November 2006.
29 Patricia Hurtado, ‘Afzali, Alleged Terror Ally, Says He’s “Perjury Trap” Victim’, Bloomberg.com, 12 December 2009.
30 Karen DeYoung, ‘Obama to Get Report on Intelligence Failures in Abdulmutallab Case’, Washington Post, 31 December 2009.
31 William E. Burrows, author of Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security, quoted in Jeffrey T. Richelson, ‘The Spies in Space’, Air and Space magazine, reprinted in the Congressional Record, 26 November 1991.
32 Vernon Loeb, ‘Test of Strength’, Washington Post, 29 July 2001.
33 Author’s notes of speech by Michael Sheehan to a conference, ‘Intelligence in the Age of National Security’, 1 February 2008, organized by New York University’s Center on Law and Security.
34 Robert Verkaik, ‘How MI5 Blackmails British Muslims’, Independent, 21 May 2009.
35 Richard Watson interview with Abu Nusaybah, Newsnight, BBC Two, 24 May 2013.
36 Michael Adebolajo was given a whole-life term; Michael Adebowale was sentenced to life with a minimum term of forty-five years.
37 Morten Storm, with Tim Lister and Paul Cruickshank, Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al-Qaeda (London, Viking, 2014), p. 268.
38 Charlie Savage, ‘Former F.B.I. Agent to Plead Guilty in Press Leak’, New York Times, 23 September 2013.
39 Mark Hosenball, ‘Did White House “Spin” Tip a Covert Op?’, Reuters, 18 May 2012.
40 This JSOC operation to support drone strikes in Pakistan emerged from reporting for ‘Kill/Capture’, Frontline, PBS, written and produced by Dan Edge and Stephen Grey, May 2011. Some details were first published by the author in an interview with the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/afghanistan-pakistan/secret-war/jsoc-using-captured-militants-to-analyze-intel/.
41 ‘In 2013, only three countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan) remain polio-endemic, down from more than 125 in 1988’: WHO Fact Sheet No. 114, Poliomyelitis, April 2013.
42 InterAction letter, 21 February 2012: available at s3.documentcloud.org/documents/322222/interaction-afridi-letter.pdf.
43 Zulfiqar Ali and Mark Magnier, ‘Polio Worker, 2 Police Officers Slain in Pakistan’, Los Angeles Times, 13 December 2013.
Chapter 12: The Good Spy
1 Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Chapter III, Verse 18, translation by Lionel Giles: available at http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html.
2 ‘Cloak, Dagger and a Blond Wig? FSB Says CIA Agent Nabbed in Moscow’, RT.com, 14 May 2013.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Milton Bearden, ‘The Moscow Rules Still Rule’, Foreign Policy, 17 May 2013.
6 ‘Alexander Litvinenko Death: UK Announces Public Inquiry’, BBC News website, 22 July 2014.
7 Eric Schmitt, Michael S. Schmidt and Ellen Barry, ‘Bombing Inquiry Turns to Motive and Russian Trip’, New York Times, 20 April 2013.
8 The National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency combined budgets equal $26 billion.
9 Wilson Andrews and Todd Lindeman, ‘$52.6 Billion: The Black Budget’, Washington Post, published 29 August 2013: available at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/.
10 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, ‘Police Spies Court Case Suggests Sexual Relations with Activists Were Routine’, Guardian, 17 January 2013.
11 Judgment in [2013] EWHC 32 (QB), Case No. HQ11X03952, 17 January 2013:
available at www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2013/32.html.
12 Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Chapter 1, ‘Laying Plans’, point 18, and Chapter 13, ‘The Use of Spies’, point 18.
13 Jennifer E. Sims and Burton L. Gerber (eds), Transforming U.S. Intelligence (Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2005), p. 86.
14 See http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data.
15 Richard Rubin, ‘Cash Abroad Rises $206 Billion as Apple to IBM Avoid Tax’, Bloomberg News, 12 March 2014.
16 Winston Churchill, The Second World War: Vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London, Cassell & Co., 1948), p. 105.
17 Status of World Nuclear Forces 2013, Federation of American Scientists: available at www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html.
18 John Updike, The Complete Henry Bech (London, Penguin, 2006), Kindle location 148.
19 He expounded these ideas in John Robb, Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization. How They Organize and Operate in Iraq and Beyond (New Jersey, Wiley & Sons, 2007).
20 Jake Kerridge, ‘Hay Festival 2013: John le Carré on His New Novel, A Delicate Truth’, Daily Telegraph, 25 May 2013.
21 Markus Wolf in a 1998 interview for CNN Special ‘Cold War’: available at http://archive.is/LI9N8.
22 Gordon Corera interview with Oleg Gordievsky, quoted in Gordon Corera, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (London, Phoenix Paperbacks e-book), Kindle location 5473.
23 Sir Richard Dearlove, interviewed as part of ‘The Global Threat of Terror’ panel at the 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival: available at www.aspenideas.org/session/global-threat-terror.
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