See No Evil: The True Story Of A Ground Soldier In The CIA's War On Terrorism (2003) - Plot & Excerpts
NORTHERN IRAQ. When my team and I walked into northern Iraq on January 21, 1995, we had no idea anyone was making plans to move against Saddam. I’d volunteered to take a team into the north because I knew it was the only way the CIA could get a heads-up if Saddam was about to invade another neighbor. I also knew it was the best place to recruit Iraqi military officers. Our first task after crossing the border was to meet an Iraqi major general, in Zakhu, a small town the Kurds had seized in the March 1991 uprisings. Until he defected to the north in November 1994, the general had been an adviser in the Iraqi presidency. The hope was that he might know something about where the Scuds were hiding and, even more important, about Saddam’s biochemical warheads. The general must have found the group of us an odd sight when his driver pulled up in front of our house at exactly eleven AM We had spent the last two days in the back of trucks getting into the north, only to discover the house we were to live in had no electricity, water, or heat - this on a night so cold the water in our canteens froze.
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