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    See no evil. Robert Baer. New York: Crown Publishers, 2002. The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, shocked the world. Many people died and the scar still remains in people's hearts. Was all this predictable? No, but it could have been avoided, says Robert Baer in his book See No Evil. This book is the memoir of a man who joined the CIA to satisfy his curiosity about what was happening in the world and who became aware of the problems facing the CIA and the never-told inside story he encountered. Baer worked for the CIA. CIA for 20 years. He started in India and traveled to countries most Americans would never have heard of or set foot in. He worked as a case manager in the Directorate of Operations, where his task was to recruit agents to collect information in the assigned country and transmit it to the Directorate of Intelligence. In the beginning, he made many mistakes and sometimes he almost died. However, over time he got better at his job, the number of mistakes he made decreased, and the information he collected became more and more important. On April 18, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, a terrorist group attacked the American embassy. A truck crashed into the embassy, ​​detonating a bomb that killed 63 people, including 6 CIA officers. Never before had the CIA lost so many officers in a single attack. Baer received this news while studying Arabic in Tunis. He thought it was a radical Palestinian group behind this and that they would be arrested in about a week. He was wrong. The bombers did really well, the CIA couldn't locate the ringleader. Baer tried to catch them throughout his career as a CIA officer, although this case was never officially solved...... middle of paper ......aw l reader's attention, and its non-stop action stories make it difficult to put the book down. His dramatic prose conveys a fictional story. He describes himself as a hero fighting the evil side of his own country. He is very critical of the CIA and America for what they have done and what they have not done. At the beginning and end of this book, Baer talks about the September 11 attack. He says it could have been avoided if the CIA maintained its style of recruiting good agents and working hard to gather information. His goal is for the CIA to learn from the incident, and he says, "They should start listening to people again, even if the massage is unpleasant." The CIA has no choice but to come out and start talking. to people. E He believes that the only way to defeat the enemy is to know what he is going to do and to be ready for it..