The Way of the Knife (51 page)

This just is not an intelligence mission:
Author interview with Ross Newland.

it is no longer a stop for tourists:
The author is grateful to Timothy Pratt for his reporting from Indian Springs, Nevada.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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SELECTED JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Baker, Aryn. “The Murky Past of the Pakistani Doctor Who Helped the CIA.”
Time
(June 13, 2012).

Bamford, James. “He’s in the Backseat!”
The Atlantic
(April 2006).

Chesney, Robert. “Military-Intelligence Convergence and the Law of the Title 10/Title 50 Debate.”
Journal of National Security Law and Policy
(2012).

Ciralsky, Adam. “Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy.”
Vanity Fair
(January 2010).

Fair, Christine C., and Seth Jones. “Pakistan’s War Within.”
Survival
51, no. 6 (December 2009–January 2010).

Kibbe, Jennifer D. “The Rise of the Shadow Warriors.”
Foreign Affairs
(March/April 2004).

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The New Yorker
(October 26, 2009).

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Foreign Policy
(March/April 2011).

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Men’s Journal
(November 2010).

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(September 17, 2009).

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(June 1, 2011).

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Newsweek
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Zelikow, Philip. “Codes of Conduct for a Twilight War.”
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(April 2012).

PHOTO CREDITS

1:
AP Photo/HLG.

2:
AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool.

3:
Paul Hosefros/
The New York Times
/Redux.

4:
AP Photo/Mike Wintroath.