Sleeping With the Devil, Robert Baer
Sleeping With the Devil, Robert Baer
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Sleeping With the Devil
How Washington Sold Our Soul For Saudi Crude

Author: Robert Baer

Narrator: Robert O'Keefe

Abridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2003

Synopsis

Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and terrorist threats. Baer goes behind the scenes to show how the U.S. willingly overlooked the corruption of the Saudi royal family, its financing of violent Islamic fundamentalist groups that spread hatred of the West throughout Saudi society, and its bribery of American officials. From a close-up with a corrupt Arab family to the inside scoop on how we helped fund the Taliban, Baer shows what's at stake in our pursuit of oil.

About The Author

Robert Baer spent twenty years running agents from inside the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, operating against Hizballah, Al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations, and “was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East” (Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker). His memoir See No Evil was a New York Times bestseller and inspired the movie Syriana starring George Clooney. He lives in Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

Robert Baer - image from Penguin Random House The focus here is Saudi Arabia, and it is a very chilling account with considerable new information (new to me anyway) providing a basis for a very dark look into the future. It is only a matter of time before the unimaginable thievery of the Al Sa’ud (t......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne

Know all those things that terrify you about the Middle East? In Sleeping with the Devil, former CIA case officer Robert Baer explains why you don't know the half of it. A decade later, Sleeping with the Devil is as timely as ever, making it one of the best books I've read not just on the Middle Eas......more

Goodreads review by HR-ML

I read the hardback edition, with 212 pages. IMO this book had too much info to absorb. Robert Baer, a CIA operative x 25 yrs, mostly in the Middle East wrote this. He resigned in 1997. He stated the CIA's main focus for years was to prevent the spread of Communism. The CIA placed the author in the C......more

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