In the Counterterrorism Center on 9/11: One Analyst’s Story

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🗓️ 9 September 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The war with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda did not begin on September 11th. CIA analyst Cindy Storer was there from the beginning in the early 1990s, a member of a small band of mostly female analysts who worked on Al Qaeda long before September 11. They faced a frustrating uphill battle convincing others about this new threat and were subjected to ridicule for their supposedly excessive passion right up until September 11th. Hear Cindy discuss with SPY Historian Mark Stout what it was like to be in the building on that day and the amazing combination of emotion, professionalism, and commitment that characterized the following days.

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1:44.0	I'm Mark Stout historian of the museum.
1:46.2	I'm a PhD author and historian who served for 13 years as an analyst in the U.S.
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1:58.4	and espionage. We're joined today by former CIA Terrorism analyst Cynthia Storer.
2:10.0	Cynthia worked at CIA from 1986 until 2007.
2:15.0	Quite a lot of that time working on the terrorism target, including in the Counterterrorism Center.
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