You can buy his book Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda on Amazon.Harry Ferguson is a former MI6 intelligence officer and was an undercover agent for the National Investigation Service (NIS). Will ISIS continue to grow? I think they are starting to decline but, will someone else readily take their place depending on the raison d'etre of the day? Absolutely.Ĭontinue reading the this on Reddit. Was any of it worth it? Will the Taliban retake Afghanistan? They very well might. I ask myself the same question every goddamn day. Most of my friends still call me by my fake name even though they know my true name. I turned green, puked in the trash can, drank a coke, then took another even bigger dip to prove to the guys I wasn't a pussy. Silliest thing I ever did was take a huge dip of Redman chewing tobacco trying to fit in with some of the hard core door kickers we employ. As for the second question, I refer you to the Billion Dollar Spy by Bruce Hoffman which lays out the tradecraft involved with surveillance and counter-surveillance. That is highly authentic movie, and as we learned yesterday via, it is because the Agency helped them along the way to ensure its authenticity. Let me answer your first question by referring you to Zero Dark Thirty. But I have come around.ĭo you really track your targets, like in the movies? How about avoiding being trailed and losing those trailing you? Not my best stuff but it happened and I thought it was integral to share because lots of guys come back and have a hard time adjusting.It is hard to replace that adrenaline and its also hard to deal with petty shit not being so petty back home. That said, I have an entire chapter in my book called The Downward Spiral which talks about my trying to cope with the stress through drugs and alcohol. I was generally pretty safe physically during my time there with a few exceptions but nothing that left me debilitated or maimed. Because I kept it turned up to 11 the entire time I was there. What is tougher? The mental or physical toll? Whether that be via the terrain or a virus (which I got and almost killed me) that is not common for a midwest guy like me. Add to that the fact that Afghanistan in and of itself is trying to kill you every chance it gets.
Which is why it is so important to maintain sound tradecraft and stay off the radar. Then you add in the idea that you are CIA and that puts a tremendous target on your back. Well I was a warzone Case Officer (C/O) so you can imagine that it is already dangerous by proxy of being in a warzone. Which, for me especially, was a good thing given that I was just an average guy from the Midwest. That way everyone is starting on a level playing field. Yes, the military would help to a degree but in order to be a case officer, which is what I did, you really can't prepare for it ahead of time. There are no skills that you can learn per se prior to joining the Agency that will make you a stronger candidate. And I kept it from them by telling them I was a low level sales guy - which I also told everyone else - and since that's pretty boring, their truthfully weren't a whole lot of other follow up questions. I just told my mom and dad last week. It's also a gigantic weight off my chest that I have been carrying for the past ten years. So for context, since you asked about family - I classify that as solely my mom and dad.
It probably helps that he's single with no kids, but any relationship starts with a lie which must have been gut-wrenching. He hid his identity for 10 years from everyone except his brother. We've pulled our favorite exchanges from this AMA, which is filled with enough acronyms to make your head spin. My final assignment was with a top secret task force operating amidst the Syrian Civil War.
I was in Afghanistan throughout President Obama's 2010 Afghan Surge, during which time I worked on eliminating the most deadly improvised explosive device (IED) network in the world as well as the removal of numerous al-Qaeda and Taliban High Value Targets from the battlefield.I was in Kandahar, Afghanistan during Operation Neptune Spear which resulted in the death of UBL in Abbottabad, Pakistan. I was a Central Intelligence Agency Case Officer who served in the Directorate of Operations (DO) with multiple tours in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East.
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