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Throughout my career at CIA, I was regularly struck by the extent to which our policymakers relied on analytical profiles of foreign leaders, especially during times of crisis.

Throughout my career at CIA, I was regularly struck by the extent to which our policymakers relied on analytical profiles of foreign leaders, especially during times of crisis.

On Nov. 25, 2001, I was an infant when a group of Marines came to my family’s house to inform us that my father, Johnny “Mike” Spann, wasn’t coming home. He had been killed in Afghanistan.

Cipher Brief UnderCover senior editor, Bill Harlow talks with journalist and author Toby Harnden about his new book, First Casualty: The Untold Story of the [...] More