Nada Bakos

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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Nada Bakos is a senior fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the author of The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS. From 200-2010, she worked as an analyst for the CIA.

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