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Following up from a fascinating interview yesterday, we turned back to Glenn L. Carle who spent 23 years in the CIA as a spy. Carle held firm to his belief in his agency until he was called on to become an interrogator, assigned to squeeze intelligence from a man believed to be a high-level al-Qa’ida terrorist. As an interrogator within the shadowy borders of the “Global War On Terror,” Carle came to believe his captive was innocent, and that he had become part of a world where fear-fueled delusions reigned. In his new memoir, The Interrogator: An Education, Glenn Carle analyzes his own role in the “War on Terror” and the larger political context in the post-9/11 world that led his agency and others to value brute force over thoughtful strategy. He is the most senior CIA member to write about his experience as an interrogator.

GUEST: Glenn L. Carle, spent 23 years in the Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked in a number of overseas posts on four continents and in Washington DC. He worked on terrorism at various times since the mid-1980s and he worked extensively on Balkan, Afghan, Central American, and European political, security, and economic issues. His last position was as an Acting and then Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats on the National Intelligence Council, the US Intelligence community’s most senior position for strategic analysis of critical national security issues. He retired from the CIA in March of 2007.

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Glenn L Carle will be speaking in Los Angeles on Wednesday January 25th, at 7 pm at Park La Brea Auditorium, 6200 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90036, where he will discuss his book. More information at www.rarebirdlit.com/events