![]() ![]() Walder spent many months at an undisclosed location in the Middle East. ![]() Bush often stopped by CIA Director George Tenet would bring the team doughnuts and coffee, an unlit cigar dangling from his lips. The terror attacks brought new urgency to the agency's work, as Walder and her team hunkered down in a room she calls "The Vault," scrutinizing drone images of suspected terrorists to deduce their networks and plans. She started in the agency's counterterrorism division, studying grainy satellite images of the mountains, caves, warehouses, and safe houses where al-Qaida operatives gathered.īy chance, she was assigned to work on a highly classified program-she is barred from giving its name-about two weeks before September 11, 2001. To her surprise, she was invited for a series of interviews and was offered a job as a staff operations officer upon graduating in 2000. One day, she biked from her sorority house to a campus job fair and on a whim dropped off a résumé at the CIA table. As a senior history major at the University of Southern California, Walder thought she might become a teacher. Walder called Blau to sketch out the basics of her story, which would become The Unexpected Spy (St. ![]()
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