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Charles Faddis

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Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and counterterrorism expert renowned for leading the first CIA team into Iraqi Kurdistan ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As an author and national security commentator on late-night radio, he has drawn on over twenty years of clandestine service to write Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and Operation Hotel California, offering insider critiques of American intelligence failures.

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Books3

Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA

2010

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Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq

2008

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Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security

2010

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Episodes2

October 23, 2013: Biological Terrorism in the US - Charles Faddis

Oct 23, 2013

3h 9m

Art Bell welcomes Charles Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer with 20 years of field experience and former head of the CIA's Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Unit. Faddis discusses his novel Kaffa, named after a medieval siege where plague-infected corpses were catapulted into a fortified city, historicall...

July 21, 2015: Biological Warfare - Charles Faddis

Jul 21, 2015

2h 38m

Charles Faddis, a 20-year CIA clandestine service veteran and former head of the agency's WMD terrorism unit, joins Art Bell for an unflinching tour of global security threats. Faddis, who led the first CIA team into Iraq in 2002, argues that ISIS grew from fundamental fissures in an artificial nation cobbled togeth...