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Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda

Posted on August 21, 2024

Rolling Stone has a long investigative story (non-paywalled version here) about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical.

Unrelated, but also in the “real life spies” file: a fake Sudanese diving resort run by Mossad.

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