Charles Faddis

2 archived appearances · 2013–2015

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Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and counterterrorism expert known for leading the first CIA team into Iraqi Kurdistan ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As an author and national security commentator on Art Bell's programs, 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.

On the air with Art · 2

Oct 23, 2013 · 3h 9m
Biological Terrorism in the US
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...
Jul 21, 2015 · 2h 38m
Biological Warfare
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...