In its May issue, Homeland Security Today features a report from the front lines of Afghanistan of a brilliant American counterintelligence officer who has “gone native” and is able to elicit information in remarkable ways.
In the article “Super Sleuth,” Godfrey Garner, PhD, a retired Special Forces officer currently in Afghanistan, provides a vivid and striking story of an American counterintelligence officer who has mastered the languages and skills necessary to interrogate without the use of force and obtain information vital to the security of our troops in Afghanistan.
According to Garner, “He does all this without violence, without torture, without duress other than that produced by the clash of intellects. Instead, he wields his astonishingly intimate knowledge of the culture, language and history around him—and he employs very human values: respect for Afghan beliefs and faith, an understanding of Afghan lives and sympathy for their dignity as human beings.”
“Godfrey Garner’s portrait of this extraordinary American intelligence officer is in the best tradition of Sherlock Holmes or James Bond—but it has the advantage of being true” said Editor David Silverberg. “And I’m glad he’s on the job.”
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