Nada Bakos

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My time working as a targeting officer at the CIA

Nada Bakos, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst on the team charged with analyzing the relationship between Iraq-AQ-9/11. During the war, Ms. Bakos became the Chief Targeting officer following Zarqawi. After 20 years in the intelligence field and corporate world, Ms. Bakos is currently focused on national security issues and regional stability around the world. […]

Zero Dark Thirty: A Former CIA Targeting Officer’s Perspective

Despite debates over its depiction of torture, Zero Dark Thirty became the most-watched movie in America this week, and looks to be heading for another strong weekend. How reliable the film’s portrait? Does it give an accurate picture of how the CIA anti-terrorism efforts really work? Nada Bakos, who spearheaded the CIA’s Zarqawi Operations team […]

Bureaucracy in The Spy Ranks

The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), created to facilitate interagency analysis and operations, has become a serious bureaucratic obstacle.

My Time as a Targeting Officer at the CIA

I’m excited to introduce Nada Bakos, a former CIA Analyst and Targeting Officer to SOFREP and I hope we see more of her on the site and potentially on SOFREP TV. Here’s a short bio: Nada Bakos, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst on the team charged with analyzing the relationship between Iraq-AQ-9/11. During the […]