Charles Faddis "Operation Hotel California" (Lyons Press)

Charles Faddis "Operation Hotel California" (Lyons Press)

A retired CIA operations officer provides a first-hand account of the mission he led in Northern Iraq eight months before the official invasion in 2003.

A retired CIA operations officer provides a first-hand account of the mission he led in Northern Iraq eight months before the official invasion in 2003.

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Charles Faddis

CIA operations officer for 20 years, most recently Department Chief of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center overseeing the pursuit of terrorist weapons of mass destruction worldwide. Before the CIA, he was a Captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps and Assistant Attorney General in Washington State.

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