Robert Booker Baer was born on July 11,1952 and is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East.
10 Facts About Robert Baer
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Robert Baer is Time's intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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Robert Baer hosted the History reality television series Hunting Hitler.
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Robert Baer is an Intelligence and Security Analyst for CNN.
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Robert Baer worked field assignments, starting in Madras and New Delhi, India; and subsequently in Beirut, Lebanon; Damascus, Syria; Khartoum, Sudan; Paris, France; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Morocco; the former republic of Yugoslavia, and Salah al-Din in Iraqi Kurdistan during his 21 years with the CIA.
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Robert Baer wrote the book See No Evil documenting his experiences while working for the Agency.
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In June 2009, Robert Baer commented on the disputed election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iranian President and the protests that accompanied it.
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Robert Baer has long been a supporter of the theory that the PFLP-GC brought down Pan Am Flight 103.
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Robert Baer has two daughters and a son from his first marriage, to a State Department secretary.
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Robert Baer has never written or promoted a book with the title "The Secret of the White House", but a fabricated interview with him about promoting this book in Canada has been circulating on the web since 2012.