Peter1469
08-03-2020, 06:59 AM
The spy’s spy (https://spectator.us/spys-spy-jr-seeger-cia/)
JR Seeger, a retired CIA clandestine operative, and veteran of Operation Jaw Breaker is writing books in his retirement. His novels are Mike 4. Unfortunately Amazon has it but it costs $103 for the paperback- no Kindle version. (https://www.amazon.com/Mike-4-J-R-Seeger/dp/0999620878/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2NX8H74I21XTJ&dchild=1&keywords=jr+seeger&qid=1596455700&s=books&sprefix=JR+Seeger%2Caps%2C143&sr=1-2) The 4th book is there and on Kindle, to include Prime.
Anyway the article at the first link above is pretty good.
Seeger is a former CIA officer with more than two decades of clandestine service behind him. He was a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina when a cold call from the spy agency set him on a journey that included 17 years ‘in the field’, according to his official, very limited unclassified biography, before being promoted to a series of senior executive roles. He speaks Farsi, Dari and Tajik, and was one of the CIA’s foremost experts on the Afghan psyche.
The only public depiction of Seeger is in the movie 12 Strong, about the American-led invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Dressed in paramilitary garb with a backwards baseball cap, an AK-47 slung over his shoulder and a pistol strapped to his thigh, he meets a US Special Forces team as they land by helicopter behind Taliban lines in the Dara-e-Suf valley.
In the movie, the CIA man is identified only as ‘Brian’, but there seems little doubt that the composite character ‘Brian’ is based on Seeger, who spent an afternoon with producer Jerry Bruckheimer during the 2017 filming of the movie in New Mexico, where, by chance, Seeger splits his time with New York. After delivering an expletive-laden intelligence brief, Brian bids farewell to the Green Berets. ‘I got a 50-kilometer hike to give a bag of money to another warlord,’ he tells them. ‘Who knows, maybe we’ll see each other on the battlefield.’ A master sergeant remarks: ‘God, that spook is cheery.’ The team’s warrant officer observes: ‘Yeah, runnin’ around here alone, settin’ this thing up. Say one thing about him, he’s got giant balls.’
If I recall, that Special Forces A-Team was ODA 555- a.k.a. Triple Nickel.
The book JawBreaker (https://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Attack-Personal-Account-Commander-ebook/dp/B000FCKLV6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=operation+jawbreaker&qid=1596455934&sr=8-1)is also a great read.
JR Seeger, a retired CIA clandestine operative, and veteran of Operation Jaw Breaker is writing books in his retirement. His novels are Mike 4. Unfortunately Amazon has it but it costs $103 for the paperback- no Kindle version. (https://www.amazon.com/Mike-4-J-R-Seeger/dp/0999620878/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2NX8H74I21XTJ&dchild=1&keywords=jr+seeger&qid=1596455700&s=books&sprefix=JR+Seeger%2Caps%2C143&sr=1-2) The 4th book is there and on Kindle, to include Prime.
Anyway the article at the first link above is pretty good.
Seeger is a former CIA officer with more than two decades of clandestine service behind him. He was a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina when a cold call from the spy agency set him on a journey that included 17 years ‘in the field’, according to his official, very limited unclassified biography, before being promoted to a series of senior executive roles. He speaks Farsi, Dari and Tajik, and was one of the CIA’s foremost experts on the Afghan psyche.
The only public depiction of Seeger is in the movie 12 Strong, about the American-led invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Dressed in paramilitary garb with a backwards baseball cap, an AK-47 slung over his shoulder and a pistol strapped to his thigh, he meets a US Special Forces team as they land by helicopter behind Taliban lines in the Dara-e-Suf valley.
In the movie, the CIA man is identified only as ‘Brian’, but there seems little doubt that the composite character ‘Brian’ is based on Seeger, who spent an afternoon with producer Jerry Bruckheimer during the 2017 filming of the movie in New Mexico, where, by chance, Seeger splits his time with New York. After delivering an expletive-laden intelligence brief, Brian bids farewell to the Green Berets. ‘I got a 50-kilometer hike to give a bag of money to another warlord,’ he tells them. ‘Who knows, maybe we’ll see each other on the battlefield.’ A master sergeant remarks: ‘God, that spook is cheery.’ The team’s warrant officer observes: ‘Yeah, runnin’ around here alone, settin’ this thing up. Say one thing about him, he’s got giant balls.’
If I recall, that Special Forces A-Team was ODA 555- a.k.a. Triple Nickel.
The book JawBreaker (https://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Attack-Personal-Account-Commander-ebook/dp/B000FCKLV6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=operation+jawbreaker&qid=1596455934&sr=8-1)is also a great read.