Gary Charles Schroen (November 6, 1941 – August 1, 2022) was an American intelligence officer who spent 32 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, most notably as a field officer in charge of the initial CIA incursion into Afghanistan in September 2001 to topple the Taliban and destroy Al-Qaeda. He retired as the most decorated CIA officer in history.[1]
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Gary Charles Schroen (November 6, 1941 – August 1, 2022) was an American intelligence officer who spent 32 years with the Central Intelligence Agency,...
Schroen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francis C. Schroen (1857–1924), Jesuit interior designer and painter GarySchroen (1941–2022)...
codenamed Jawbreaker, and arrived in Afghanistan a few weeks after GarySchroen had led the team into the Panjshir Valley. Together with U.S. Special...
Taliban in Afghanistan. The Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team, led by GarySchroen, entered the country on September 26, 2001. A new branch was added to...
2001 as a member of the CIA's Northern Alliance Liaison Team led by GarySchroen which went into Afghanistan to work with the Northern Alliance to topple...
capture bin Laden if he attempted to flee into Pakistan. Former CIA agent GarySchroen has agreed with Berntsen's opinion in a 2005 interview, in which he cited...
Security Agency. In 2005, Kelly became the first reporter to interview GarySchroen, the CIA operative who was dropped into Afghanistan in the aftermath...
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coming battle. The leader of the CIA team was Gary Berntsen, who in November had replaced GarySchroen as the senior CIA officer in Afghanistan. On 2...
Afghanistan. The Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team (NALT) team, led by GarySchroen, entered the country once more on September 26. A new branch was added...
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code-named "Jawbreaker" led by GarySchroen, a case officer, with several members from Special Activities Division including Schroen's deputy Philip Reilly, a...
1974 MS Retired General, USAF; former Commander of Scott Air Force Base GarySchroen 1968 BA Former CIA agent; stationed in Iran and Afghanistan; assigned...
planned military action as described in CIA officers Gary Berntsen's Jawbreaker, and GarySchroen's First In. Haji Zaman returned from France to Afghanistan...
Director Hamid Gul, Bearden, and the CIA's designated Kabul station chief GarySchroen), a winter of 1989–1990 coordinated assault on Kabul and Khost (the failure...
Chief Of Intelligence". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2010. Schroen, Gary C. (2005). "Afterward". First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA...
Olivier Weber (2001, with Reza): Afghan eternities; Le Chene/ UNESCO Gary C. Schroen (2005): 'First In' An Insiders Account of How The CIA Spearheaded the...
Removes Chief Of Intelligence". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-01-29. Schroen, Gary C. (2005). First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded...
14 November 2019. "Bakhtar News Agency". Retrieved 14 November 2019. Schroen, Gary (2006). First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the...
Year 2007–Goran Lozanovski Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer 1979–Gary Ward Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year 1999–Lou Acevski Victorian...
Steven Schloeder, contemporary architect, theologian, and author Francis C. Schroen, Jesuit brother and church architect Alexander Maximilian Seitz, did paintings...
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