Ghost: Confessions of a CounterTerrorism Agent - Fred Burton

Synopsis: Terrorist attacks and the hunt for the men behind them, from the events leading to Iran-Contra to the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, told from the perspective of one of the agents in the fight. Fred Burton worked for the Diplomatic Security Service, in the Department of State, for more than a decade. He was one of their first CounterTerrorism Agents and helped shape the CT program in use today. He talks about what it was like to be a part of worldwide investigations, the terror of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the times when the media, beaureacracy and egos put lives in danger, and the measures taken to make the world safer.

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