TAKEDOWN: INSIDE THE HUNT FOR AL QAEDA
Book ID/图书代码： 13567913B60909
English Summary/英文概要： On September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous fifteen years, his role had been to interpret raw intelligence and report his findings to national security decision makers. But within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, he would be on a military aircraft, flying over the Hindu Kush mountains, en route to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. government’s effort to support the fledging government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIA’s rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at the FBI. A first-person account of Mudd’s role in two organizations that changed dramatically after 9/11, Takedown sheds light on the inner workings of the intelligence community during the global counterterror campaign.
Here Mudd tells how the Al Qaeda threat looked to CIA and FBI professionals as the focus shifted from a core Al Qaeda leadership to the rise of Al Qaeda-affiliated groups and homegrown violent extremism from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. As a participant in and a witness to key strategic initiatives—including the hunt for Osama bin Laden and efforts to displace the Taliban—Mudd offers an insider’s perspective on the relationships between the White House, the State Department, and national security agencies before and after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Through telling vignettes, Mudd reveals how intelligence analysts understood and evaluated potential dangers and communicated them to political leaders.
Takedown is a gripping narrative of tracking terrorism during what may be the most exhilarating but trying times the American intelligence community has ever experienced.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2001年9月11日，中央情报局分析师菲利普•穆德从白宫旁的艾森豪威尔行政办公楼冲了出来，他并没有预料到这次恐怖袭击会对国际情报以及他中央情报局官员的职务产生怎样的影响。在过去的15中，穆德的职责是向国家安全决策的决定者阐述原始的情报并报告他的发现。但在9/11事件发生的这一周内，他乘坐军用飞机，飞越印度兴都库什山脉，抵达阿富汗，来支持当地羽翼未丰的政府，因为美国政府之前已铲除了此地一部分的塔利班组织。之后，穆德被任命为联邦调查局国家安全科副主任。穆德以人称叙述了9/11事件之后的变化，《铲除》为读者阐述了全球在反恐行动中的内部工作。
在包括追捕本拉登和铲除塔利班等重大战略举措中，穆德作为知情者，参与者，为我们讲述了他是如何看待白宫，国务院，国家安全机构之间的关系的。穆德揭示了情报分析员是如何理解和评估潜在的危险，并传达他们的政治领导人。
《铲除》描述了历史上美国与恐怖主义斗争中最艰辛的一段时期，是一部扣人心弦的作品。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普•穆德担任中央情报局反恐中心副主任，后又担任联邦调查局国家安全科副主任。他是一个独立的新美国基金会的顾问和研究员。Philip Mudd served as Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center at the Central Intelligence Agency and later as Deputy Director of the National Security Branch at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is an independent consultant and a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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