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The Bin Laden Files, Part 2/3: Take The Shot

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The Bin Laden Issues Station

The Bin Laden Issues Station was the first intelligence desk in U.S. history devised to focus on just one individual. The station's head Michael Schoyer and his team had soon garnered a nickname, the Manson Family, for their supposedly crazy predictions about the threat of Islamist terror. He routinely arrived at CIA headquarters at 3.30 in the morning to start working.

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