The Unit That Didn’t Exist: How the CIA’s elite Afghan spies tried to recruit one of Daniel Pearl’s killers

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New from Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor in The High Side, the inside story of how the CIA created its own elite Afghan espionage team focused on recruiting sources close to the al-Qaida senior leadership (especially "the Z-man." Ayman al-Zawahiri) and how that team met a dozen times or more with one of the killers of Daniel Pearl.