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Former CIA 'spook' Bob Baer shoots from the hip

By David Gonnerman '90
November 20, 2006

Star Tribune reporter Michael Bonafield interviewed author and former CIA employee Robert Baer last week during Baer's visit to St. Olaf for a talk sponsored by the student-run Political Awareness Committee. Baer, who spent some 20 years in the CIA as an operations case officer with field assignments in India, Lebanon, Tajikistan and Iraq, is not optimistic about America's involvement in Iraq. "There's no obvious way out," he says.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.