You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some

36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an operations officer

or a case officer.

Every month will be bringing you interesting talks with visitors,

with authors, with others who have something to do

with the world of intelligence and espionage. of is the author of See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil, both books about his

experiences as a CIA field officer in the Middle East, specifically in in

Afghanistan and parts has been described by Seymour Hershey as perhaps the finest field officer

the CIA has had in the area for many years.

And I think a reading of those books,

and I know he's working on a third one,

I think will only confirm that for those of us

who know him and know his work. He was also, as I know many of you know, the figure that

George Clooney was based on in the movie Siriana, having been based on Bob's book, See No Evil.

So that said, and of course Cluny went on to get both the Golden Globes and I believe a supporting actor award and Academy Award.

So Bob, we are absolutely delighted to have you here today.

And I'm going to lead off so we can get the spotlight on you as quickly as possible and ask

you, what are you doing now? I'm writing a book on Iran. It's

non-fiction book explaining why Iran is in the ascendancy, why we're having problems in Iraq with Iran, what we're going to face.

It's a new superpower.

It's a book that's not going to be particularly liked by the Iranians, but I think that we need to get at the truth.

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