The Way of the Knife (53 page)

legal opinions justifying extreme interrogations, 300–1

missile-defense plans of, 189

Saleh and, 86, 100–101

secret prison program and, 119–21

Somali and, 141, 143, 148, 150

Calland, Albert, 133

Call of Duty
(game), 185

Cambodia, 79

Cambone, Stephen, 79, 81, 116, 129, 133

Campbell, John, 98–99

Camp Chapman attack, 159

Card, Andrew, 127–28

Carlucci, Frank, 72–73

Carter, Jimmy, 43, 220

Cartwright, James, 228

Casey, William J., 74, 220

covert activities in Central America and, 50–51

Islamic terrorism and, 53–56

Castro, Fidel, 17, 46, 47

Ceausescu, Elena, 58

Ceausescu, Nicolae, 58

Celestial Balance, 246–47

Central Asia Online (website), 187

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 37

alliances with authoritarian regimes, 26, 253–55

Arab Spring missed by, 252–55, 316

assassinations and, 43–46

Benghazi attack and, 316–17

briefing White House on assassination targets, 9–10

budget cuts in 1990s and, 58

change in CIA culture to one socialized in war, 317–18

Church Committee investigations of, 45–46, 47, 88

Counterterrorist Center (
See
Counterterrorist Center)

covert activities of, 43–61

Davis incident and, 1–4, 257–65, 272–76, 290

detention-and-interrogation program, 13, 117–21, 126–28

division of labor agreement with Pentagon, 132–34

drone program (
See
Predator drones)

founding mission of, 44

Furlong’s operations and, 188–90, 195–96, 208–9

independence of, 44–45

Iranian Revolution and, 69

ISI-CIA relationship, 26–29, 167–70, 267–70, 276–77

Kashmir relief aid as cover for sending agents into Pakistan, 164–65

Khairkhwa, Khirullah and, 21–23

killing program, Blackwater phase of, 121–26

military support role of, in mid-1990s, 60–61

9/11 Commission recommendations regarding powers of, 81

in North and South Waziristan, 153–73

Obama administration reliance on, 216–28

outsourcing of missions to private contractors by, 324–25

Panetta as director of, 221–23

Pentagon spying efforts, CIA efforts to undermine, 73–74

Peshawar operations with Munir and ISI, 38–41

poor communications with Pentagon, 18

Predator drone program (
See
Predator drones)

psychological operations of, 175–76

reliance on foreign intelligence agencies, 26–29

rifts within CIA over Afghanistan strategy, 32–33

Rumsfeld critical of, 68–69

secret war of, 11–17

Somali warlords backed by, 137–43

terrorism and, 53–57

training philosophy of, 25–26

U.S.C. Title 50 as governing authority, 76, 133, 287

vaccination campaign spying operation, 279–84

in Vietnam, 45

Chalabi, Ahmed, 199

Chamberlin, Wendy, 32, 33

Charlie Wilson’s War
(Grile), 131

Cheney, Dick, 13, 78, 122, 128, 156

CIA’s proposed plan for assassinations presented to, 9–10, 122

criticizes Obama’s ban of coercive interrogations, 218–19

use of databases for information-mining and, 64–65

Church, Frank, 45–47

Church Committee, 45–46, 47, 88, 120, 282

Churchill, Winston, 6, 36–37

City Mayor
(game), 186

Clarke, Richard, 88

Predator drone program and, 89–93

Clarridge, Duane R., 50–51, 59, 60, 73, 199–211, 323–24, 326

Bush, H. W.’s pardoning of, 199

Counterterrorist Center proposal of, 55–57

covert activities in Central America and, 50–51

Nicaraguan mining operation and, 52

private spying operations in Afghanistan of, 201–211

Clinton, Bill, 60, 61, 220

bin Laden hunt and, 89

lack of attention paid to intelligence issues by, 58–59

Clinton, Hillary, 238–39, 292

Clinton administration, 223

lack of leads in hunting bin Laden, 89

CNN, 97, 100

Colby, William, 46

Cold War, 25, 175

Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), 240–41

Contras, 51, 52–53

Costa Rica, 52

Counterterrorist Center (CTC), 10, 11–15

creation of, 55–57

expansion of, 11

initial success in Afghanistan, 12–13

“targeting” of foreign nationals, 14–15

covert operations.
See also
specific operations

AfPax Insider project, 194–99

of CIA, 43–61

of Clarridge and Furlong in Afghanistan, 201–11

legal authority for, 76–77

of Pentagon, 63–82

Creech Air Force Base, 320–21

Cross Project, 45

Crumpton, Hank, 33, 125, 142–43

CTC.
See
Counterterrorist Center (CTC)

Cuba, 17, 46, 50–51

cycle of intelligence, 230

Czech Republic, 188–90

Daily Telegraph, The,
36

Damadola raid, 134–35

Dante Alighieri, 65

Darkazanli, Mamoun, 10

Datta Khel strike, 291

Davis, Perry, 239, 240–41, 247, 248, 250, 252

Davis, Raymond, 1–4, 257–59, 261–65, 272–76, 279, 290, 291, 327

Dearlove, Richard, 6–7

Defense Department.
See
Department of Defense

Defense Intelligence Agency, 314

defense secretary, legal powers and authority of, 75–77

Deininger, Bill, 247–48

Delta Force, 57, 64, 69, 75, 76, 129, 138, 149–50, 251

Department of Defense, 44.
See also
Pentagon

defense secretary, legal powers and authority of, 75–77

dependence on CIA, 67–68

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) (
See
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC))

psychological operations of, 176–90

regulation prohibiting hiring of contractors for human-spying operations, 206

Rumsfeld efforts to modernize, 19–21

Department of Justice, 127

al-Awlaki killing approved by, 305, 312

waterboarding and interrogation program authorized by, 118, 120

Detainee Treatment Act, 126, 127

detention-and-interrogation program, 13, 117–21, 126–28

Deutch, John, 16, 59–60, 61, 222, 282

Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), 33–36

CIA-ISI operation to arrest Rauf, 165–66

CIA-ISI relationship, 26–29, 167–70, 267–70, 276–77

Directorate C, 168

Directorate S, 168–69, 266

Kayani as head of, 110–13

Khairkhwa capture and turnover to U.S. by, 22, 23

misreading of American commitment to Afghanistan, 34–35

Peshawar operations with CIA, 38–41

Directorate of Intelligence, 266–67

Directorate of Operations, 12, 162

Director of National Intelligence position, 128, 223–24

diyat,
273

Djibouti, 306–7, 308

Doherty, Glen, 317

Donilon, Tom, 226, 292–93

Donovan, William J., 45, 56, 200, 300

Downing, Wayne, 131, 199

drones/drone program

Predator (
See
Predator drones)

Reaper, 266, 308, 318

Durrani, Assad, 35

Eclipse Group, 210

Egypt, 26, 252, 254

Ehsan ul Haq, 28, 33–36, 108, 111

Eikenberry, Karl, 192–93

El Al ticket counter terrorist attacks, 55

Eldridge, Bill, 182

Eliot, T. S., 153

El Salvador, 15

Emanuel, Rahm, 223

embassy bombings

in Beirut, 54

in Kenya and Tanzania, 27

Ethiopia

invasion of Somalia by, 148–51

Faheem, Shumaila, 272

Faina
(ship), 237–38, 247

Farina, Chris, 146–47

Farm, the, 25, 115, 165

Feith, Douglas J., 78

Fernandez, Joe, 52, 53

Field Operations Group (FOG), 69–70

Flynn, Michael, 198

FOG.
See
Field Operations Group (FOG)

Ford, Gerald, 45–46, 300

Fort Hood shooting, 308–9