The New Spymasters (59 page)

Rafid Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi, was exposed as the agent known as Curveball – the man who provided key intelligence on biological weapons used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (Photo: Gustavo Alabiso.)

Above
: Zabet Amanullah out election campaigning before he was killed in a US air strike. He was said by US intelligence to have a secret life as a Taliban commander.
Right
: a copy of Amanullah's passport.

Amanullah was well known to many Westerners. Former UN official Michael Semple (
above
) was friends with him; he had his phone number stored on his phone – the same number that US intelligence tracked to kill him. Semple proved Amanullah was no double-agent.

Asim (
top left
), a Pakistani agent for French intelligence, infiltrated the Tariq bin Ziyad mosque in Barcelona, Spain (
top right
). He testified that he discovered a plot to bomb the city's metro (
bottom
) and led to the jailing of eleven alleged terrorists. (Photos: Stephen Grey.)

Danish convert Morten Storm became an agent for Danish intelligence, the CIA and MI5. He helped the CIA track and assassinate Yemeni-American preacher Anwar Awlaki in 2011, in both Britain and in the Yemen.

The military log that recorded the attack at Camp Chapman. OGA was the military term for the CIA. (Source: Wikileaks.)

 

The two faces of Humam al-Balawi: as a Palestinian doctor (
left
) and as militant extremist Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani (
right
), preparing for an attack against the CIA. (Photo: Jihadi video.)

Former SIS officer Alastair Crooke specialized in secret peacemaking with violent groups. (Photo: conflicts forum.)

Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin opened a dialogue with Crooke before Yassin was killed by the Israelis. (Photo: Reuters – Mohammad Salem.)

Two faces of the modern CIA. In 2011 agent Shakil Afridi (
left
) was recruited to visit Osama bin Laden's compound with a fake offer to vaccinate children; in Moscow, CIA officer Ryan Christopher Fogle (
right
) was arrested by Russian officers in 2013 on his way to recruit an agent. (Photos: Getty Images and Russia Handout.)

Fogle was caught with a toolkit for spying that included wigs, sunglasses, a compass, a Bic lighter, a Moscow atlas, $100,000 in euros and a metal shield for credit cards.

In 2006 Britain's SIS was accused by the Russians of using this fake rock to hide electronic equipment for communicating with its agents in Moscow.

About the Author

Stephen Grey
,
author of
Ghost Plane,
is an award-winning investigative journalist who has contributed to
The New York Times,
60 Minutes,
ABC News,
CNN,
Newsweek,
The Atlantic Monthly,
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