ISHMAEL JONES was born in the United States and raised in the Middle East, East Asia, and East Africa. He attended universities in the United States and served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. In the late 1980s he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as a deep-cover officer for eighteen years, focusing on human sources with access to intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.
"Excellent...a devastating and alarming picture."
National Review
Scathing and unauthorized.”
Congressional Quarterly
"Controversial, eye-opening account"
Foreword Magazine
This book should be required reading for anyone who serves in our
government or is served by it. But beware: Reading The Human Factor
will make you very, very angry.”
Max Boot, Senior fellow in national security studies, The Council
on Foreign Relations; author of The Savage Wars of Peace and War
Made New
Jones (the cover name the Agency gave him during his first
training course), a Marine who joined the Agency’s clandestine
service and became a case officer in the late ’80s, paints a
devastating and alarming picture of a vast bureaucracy he calls a
corrupt, Soviet-style organization’.”
Michael Ledeen, National Review Online
Mr. Jones obviously believes that the United States deserves the
best intelligence organization in the world. He believes
passionately that every American taxpayer is being cheated because
we are paying scores of billions of dollars for a bloated,
ineffective, risk-averse organization that cannot perform the
mission for which it was created.”
John Weisman, The Washington Times
Ishmael Jones represents an altogether uncommon breed of CIA
officer, one willing to risk life and career in the pursuit of
gathering better intelligence. If the CIA as a whole shared this
one officer’s relentless pursuit of WMD sources, terrorists, and
the rogue nations that support them, then we might find ourselves
in a much safer world today. With his book The Human Factor, Jones
relates the details of his extraordinary career with a notable lack
of bravado and a tremendous amount of dry wit.”
Lindsay Moran, author of Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA
Spy
The Human Factor is an enormously important book and a
surprisingly accessible read. Hopefully, it will propel the reform
debate beyond the usual tinkering
. Call him Ishmael, or not, but I
call him a patriot.”
David Forsmark, Frontpage Magazine
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