Marine to Green Beret to Delta to CIA: The Man Who Hunted bin Laden | Gary Harrington
About this episode
Gary Harrington shares his experiences as a military operator and CIA agent involved in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Send us Fan Mail At Tora Bora in December 2001, Gary Harrington sat on one of the closest American observation posts to Osama bin Laden — close enough, he says, to watch the bombs he was calling in streak past the ridge sideways. Then the war handed him to the CIA, and he spent the next decade hunting the same enemy from the inside. Harrington is the rare operator who wore the uniform six different ways: Marine Corps infantry officer, Marine Recon, the second officer ever to graduate the Mari...
People in this episode
Guest: Gary Harrington
Topics covered
- military operations
- intelligence
- counterterrorism
- personal narrative
- history
- war
Keywords
- Gary Harrington
- CIA
- Osama bin Laden
- military
- Tora Bora
- counterterrorism
- Marine Corps
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CIA, Marine Corps
Places: Tora Bora
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