Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer

Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer

by Barry Michael Broman
Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer

Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer

by Barry Michael Broman

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Overview

The vivid and engaging memoir of a CIA case officer.

Joining the CIA after fighting in Vietnam as a Marine, Broman’s first posting was war-torn Cambodia. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer Rouge took power. During his career, he was twice chief of station, once a deputy chief of station, and supervised an international paramilitary project in support of the Cambodian resistance to Vietnamese invaders. He was actively involved in several assignments in counternarcotics operations in Southeast Asia including a major “bust” that yielded 551 kilograms of high-grade heroin from a major drug trafficker. His “favorite agent” against a variety of “hard targets” was a fellow whose only demand was that his assignments be “life threatening.” He survived them all.

As amazing as the characters Broman has met are the places he has been, with visits to little-known and rarely seen places like the Naga Hills on the India–Burma border, the world-famous but off-limits jade and ruby mines of Burma, and the isolated Banda Islands of Indonesia, the home of nutmeg.

Broman’s engaging tone is perfectly complemented by photographs taken throughout his career, many of them his own, made using the skills he learned as a teenager when working for the Associated Press in Southeast Asia. They include Marines in action in Vietnam, the ravages of war in Cambodia, and opium buyers forcing growers to sell in Burma.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612008967
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Publication date: 07/30/2020
Pages: 312
Sales rank: 1,079,152
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Barry Broman was a teenage photographer for the Associated Press in Southeast Asia, then a Marine Corps infantry officer in combat in Vietnam before spending a quarter century as a “head-hunter” with dozens of recruits for the Clandestine Service in operations around the world. Mr. Broman received a BA in Political Science in 1967 followed by an MA in Southeast Asian Studies a year later. A lifelong photographer and traveler he has published many articles and books.

Table of Contents

I. Early Years
II. Photographer
III. Marine
IV. Spy
V. Latter Years
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