Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story - Plot & Excerpts
Washington/Afghanistan, 1986–87 In a conference room just off my office in New York City hangs a print of an official Central Intelligence Agency oil painting. The CIA is fastidious about its history and recording past glories. Not long ago its historical office began commissioning paintings of key moments in Agency history. The moment mujahideen fighters stood up, shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” and fired the Stinger for the first time at a Soviet helicopter gunship was second in the series—it was that big a deal. By the spring of 1986, before the American people and most of us inside the CIA knew anything about the illegal diversion of funds from the Iran arms sales to the Contras, I had taken over the Afghan Task Force and become the official responsible for moving vast quantities of arms and matériel across the Pakistan border and into Afghanistan. By summer, the first Stingers were in theater, waiting to debut. Given my belief in well-planned, muscular covert operations, I had favored introduction of the Stinger from the outset.
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