His See No Evil goes into a lot of detail about the training and day to day work of a CIA case officer:
His See No Evil goes into a lot of detail about the training and day to day work of a CIA case officer:
However, I suspect that Baer may be out of touch with US post-cold-war national security issues.
"The final section of the memoir deals with Baer's experience with oil politics in Washington, and the extended reach granted to oil's agenda by the politically fixated and strategically oblivious American government. At one point, Baer is stunned at being asked to approve the sale of a sophisticated American defense weapon to a former Soviet-bloc country as an incentive for participating in an oil deal, while that same country had recently obstructed the investigation of the murder of an American diplomat on their soil."
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/...
I grew up in Saudi, and got my undergraduate degree in intelligence studies. From my perspective, Baer was quite in touch with modern politics. A bit bombastic, but always a seemingly strong understanding of the political landscape.
Of course, the assassination was a complete fiction - but the CIA made it clear that they were hanging him out to dry.