8/31/26

🛡️ CIA WAR-ZONE EXPERIENCE: WHEN CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP MATTER MOST

People often hear “CIA officer” and think of Washington, headquarters, or what they have seen in movies.

But a significant part of my career was spent far from Washington—working in war zones and high-threat environments, including Afghanistan and the Middle East.

🌍🇺🇸 From Kandahar to other dangerous overseas assignments, nearly seven years of my CIA career were spent operating where decisions carried real consequences and leadership was tested under pressure.

⚔️ War-zone service taught me something that never left me:

Credibility matters. Character matters. Leadership matters.

And when lives are at stake, integrity is not optional.

Those experiences also shaped what happened later when I confronted wrongdoing inside the CIA—and why I refused to simply look the other way.

📕 That story is told in The Broken Whistle: A Deep State Run Amok.

🔴 The true story of a CIA whistleblower who exposed wrongdoing from the inside.

For more details read “The Broken Whistle; A Deep State Run Amok.”

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