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Robert Booker Baer is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East. He is Time's intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Baer speaks 8 languages, won the CIA career intelligence medal and is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, espionage and U.S. foreign policy. Currently he is a reality television host on the History program Hunting Hitler. He is an Intelligence and Security Analyst for CNN. His book "See no evil" was adapted by the director Stephen Gaghan and used as the basis for the film Syriana, with George Clooney playing Baer's character.
Birth Name
Robert Booker Baer
Born
Tuesday, 01 July 1952
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
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| America's Book of Secrets: Special Edition | Self - Former CIA Operative / Author, See No Evil | 2023 |
| The Iconoclast | Self | 2017 |
| Cuomo Prime Time | Self - Correspondent | 2017 |
| Countdown to the Eclipse | Self | 2017 |
| JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald | Self - Former CIA Case Officer / Self - Former CIA Officer | 2017 |
| The Eighties | Self - Former CIA Officer, Beirut | 2016 |
| The World's Greatest Spy Movies | Self - Former CIA Officer | 2016 |
| Hunting Hitler | Self | 2015 |
| The Seventies | Self - Fmr CIA Case Officer | 2015 |
| CNN Tonight | Self - Correspondent / Self - Intelligence Analyst | 2014 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| America's Book of Secrets: Special Edition | Self - Former CIA Operative / Author, See No Evil | 2023 |
| The Iconoclast | Self | 2017 |
| Cuomo Prime Time | Self - Correspondent | 2017 |
| Countdown to the Eclipse | Self | 2017 |
| JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald | Self - Former CIA Case Officer / Self - Former CIA Officer | 2017 |
| The Eighties | Self - Former CIA Officer, Beirut | 2016 |
| The World's Greatest Spy Movies | Self - Former CIA Officer | 2016 |
| Hunting Hitler | Self | 2015 |
| The Seventies | Self - Fmr CIA Case Officer | 2015 |
| CNN Tonight | Self - Correspondent / Self - Intelligence Analyst | 2014 |
| At This Hour with Kate Bolduan | Self - Correspondent | 2014 |
| New Day | Self - Correspondent | 2013 |
| The Lead with Jake Tapper | Self - Correspondent | 2013 |
| Shadows of Liberty | Self - former CIA agent | 2012 |
| America's Book of Secrets | Self - Former CIA Operative, Author, See No Evil | 2012 |
| Erin Burnett OutFront | Self - Correspondent / Self | 2011 |
| American Jihadist | Self | 2010 |
| Rethink Afghanistan | Self - Former CIA Operative, Middle East | 2009 |
| Car Bomb | Self - Presenter | 2008 |
| Vanguard | Self | 2006 |
| Cult of the Suicide Bomber 2 | Baer, Robert | 2006 |
| Syriana | CIA Security Officer #2 | 2005 |
| The Colbert Report | Self | 2005 |
| The Cult of the Suicide Bomber | Self | 2005 |
| Uncovered: The War on Iraq | Self - Former CIA operative who served in Iraq and Lebanon; awarded the Career Intelligence Medal | 2004 |
| The World According to Bush | Self | 2004 |
| Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 2003 |
| CNN Newsroom | Self - Correspondent | 1989 |
| Frontline | Himself - Former CIA Officer | 1983 |
| 60 Minutes | Himself - Terrorism Specialist (segment "The Defector") / Himself - Former CIA Agent (segment "Saddam's Money") (as Bob Baer) | 1968 |
| Horizon | Self - CIA Field Office 1976-97 | 1964 |
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