Hank Crumpton
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Henry "Hank" Crumpton is a U.S. counterterrorism specialist, long a covert operator in the Central Intelligence Agency, whose identity became known in 2005. He became the U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with the rank of Ambassador. [1] Simply known as "Hank" when running covert operations in Afghanistan, [2] energy and climate change issues "keep him up at night" in 2009.[3]
David Kilcullen credits him with new understandings of terrorism, such as coining the term "mico-actors with massive impact" for the autonomous group that perpetrated the 2008 bombings of Madrid.[4]
References
- ↑ Robin Wright (12 September 2005), "In From the Cold and Able to Take the Heat", Washington Post
- ↑ Gary C. Schroen (2005), First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Ballentine, ISBN 0891418723
- ↑ Thomas Ricks (3 June 2009), "What worries Hank Crumpton", Foreign Policy
- ↑ David Kilcullen (2009), The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195368345, p. 6