Robert L. Grenier had a much-decorated twenty-seven-year career in the CIA's National Clandestine Service. A renowned Middle East expert, he has been deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia. Grenier organized the CIA's counterproliferation division and headed the agency's basic-training facility, "the Farm." He was the CIA's Islamabad station chief from 1999 to 2002, and afterwards became director of the agency's Counterterrorism Center, responsible for all CIA counterterrorism operations. Currently, Grenier is chairman of ERG Partners, a consulting firm to business in the intelligence and security sector.
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The 'first' Afghan War, the CIA's war in response to 9/11, was approved by President Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intellige... SEE MORE