Edward Shirley is the pen name of a former CIA operative who wrote about Middle Eastern affairs and intelligence matters. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 1998 covering topics related to Iran and terrorism. He is also known as the author of 'Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran.'
Unless the United States has communication intercepts revealing who bombed the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the search for the guilty will probably be an exhausting exercise involving meticulous police work, intelligence liaison, and luck. Connecting the terrorists' modus…
Persian mutability was both the bane and the pleasure of my work as an Iranian-targets officer in the CIA's clandestine service. An Iranian could appear one day as a hirsute, pro-Khomeini revolutionary, the next as a clean- shaven, pro-Western democrat who never really believed those chestthumping,…