Washington Post: In addition to skewering a number of former senior agency officials who oversaw the NOC cadre — whose biographies (and, at times, names) are only lightly fictionalized — the book recounts the agency’s post-9/11 push to procure, and perhaps surreptitiously redirect for other purposes,billions of dollars in funding earmarked by Congress for a vastly expanded NOC program.
The post-9/11 NOC expansion was a real-life “debacle,” said a former deep-cover colleague of Oyken’s, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly address sensitive intelligence operations, “where results were secondary, receipts were primary, and spending was king.”…