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Exclusive: Interview with ex-CIA officer Charles S. Faddis

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Yesterday I reviewed Charles S. Faddis’ new book, Codename Aphrodite (Orion, 2011), a gripping novel revolving around a former CIA case officer’s freelance operation in Athens, Greece, in pursuit of November 17, one of Europe’s most notorious urban guerrilla groups. Today intelNews hosts an interview with Faddis, a straight-talking former CIA clandestine operations officer, who admits that his new book “is based on some very personal experiences” and that many of the book’s characters “are drawn much more from memory than they are from imagination”. I imagine that most regular readers of this blog probably know Chars S(am) Faddis as the former head of the US National Terrorism Center's WMD Unit. His 20-year career as a CIA operations officer, with posts in South Asia, Near East and Europe, arguably culminated in 2002, when he led a CIA team into Iraq to help prepare the ground for the US invasion. He documented this in his 2010 book (co-authored with Mike Tucker) Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq. Following his 2008 retirement, Faddis, who was CIA Chief of Station in his last overseas tour, frequently comments on intelligence matters, most notably in his 2009 exposé Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA. Faddis' answers to intelNews' questions are below.

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