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Gary Berntsen, the Glossary

Gary Berntsen (born July 23, 1957) is an American former Central Intelligence Agency career officer.^[1]

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Recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal
Recipients of the Intelligence Star

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari:,; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.

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Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Battle of Tora Bora

The Battle of Tora Bora was a military engagement that took place in the cave complex of Tora Bora, eastern Afghanistan, from November 30December 17, 2001, during the final stages of the United States invasion of Afghanistan.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Carl Paladino

Carl Pasquale Paladino (born August 24, 1946) is an American businessman and political activist. Gary Berntsen and Carl Paladino are new York (state) Republicans.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician serving as Senate Majority Leader since 2021 and as a United States senator from New York since 1999.

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Cofer Black

Joseph Cofer Black (born 1950) is an American former CIA officer who served as director of the Counterterrorism Center in the years surrounding the September 11th attacks, and was later appointed Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department by President George W. Bush, serving until his resignation in 2004. Gary Berntsen and Cofer Black are American spies, people of the Central Intelligence Agency and Recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.

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Counterterrorism

Counterterrorism (alternatively spelled: counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, relates to the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to combat or eliminate terrorism.

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Daisy cutter (fuse)

A daisy cutter is a type of fuse designed to detonate an aerial bomb at or above ground level.

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Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam (from lit) is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania.

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Fall of Kabul (2001)

Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, fell in November 2001 to the Northern Alliance forces during the War in Afghanistan.

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Gary Schroen

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. Gary Berntsen and Gary Schroen are American spies and people of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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George Tenet

George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) is an American intelligence official and academic who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.

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Henry A. Crumpton

Henry "Hank" A. Crumpton (born 1957)is a retired Central Intelligence Agency operations officer, who served as deputy director of the Counterterrorism Center and as head of the CIA's National Resources Division, which focuses on operations in the United States. Gary Berntsen and Henry A. Crumpton are American spies and people of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Human intelligence (intelligence gathering)

Human intelligence (HUMINT, pronounced) is intelligence-gathering by means of human sources and interpersonal communication.

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Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander (2005) is an autobiographical book by CIA agent Gary Berntsen describing the time he spent in Afghanistan at the beginning of the American campaign against the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), formerly the Monterey Institute of International Studies, is a graduate institute of Middlebury College, a private college in Middlebury, Vermont.

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Nangarhar Province

Nangarhār (Pashto:; Dari), also called Nangrahar or Ningrahar, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country and bordering Logar, Kabul, Laghman and Kunar provinces as well as having an international border with Pakistan.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northern Alliance

The Northern Alliance (ائتلاف شمال E'tilāf Šumāl or اتحاد شمال Ettehād Šumāl), officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان Jabha-ye Muttahid-e Islāmī-ye Millī barāye Najāt-e Afğānistān), was a military alliance of groups that operated between early 1992 and 2001 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.

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Panjshir Valley

The Panjshir Valley (also spelled Panjsher; Dari: درهٔ پنجشير, Dara-i-Panjsher, literally "Valley of the Five Lions") is a valley in northeastern Afghanistan, north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush mountain range.

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Peter King (American politician)

Peter Thomas King (born April 5, 1944) is an American former politician who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021.

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Political science

Political science is the scientific study of politics.

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Quds Force

The Quds Force (Jerusalem Force) is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations.

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Smithtown, New York

Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Tommy Franks

Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945) is a retired United States Army general.

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Tora Bora

Tora Bora (توره بوړه, "Black Cave") is a cave complex, part of the Spin Ghar (White Mountains) mountain range of eastern Afghanistan.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Rangers

The United States Army Rangers are elite U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger".

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United States Army Special Forces

The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the "Green Berets" due to their distinctive service headgear, is the special operations branch of the United States Army.

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United States Central Command

The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense.

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United States invasion of Afghanistan

Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the United States declared the war on terror and subsequently led a multinational military operation against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico (UNM; Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.

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1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut

The April 18, 1983, United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by.

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1998 United States embassy bombings

The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998.

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2010 United States Senate election in New York

The 2010 United States Senate election in New York took place on November 2, 2010, along with elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Berntsen

Also known as Berntsen, Gary, Gary Bernsten.

Gary Berntsen, the Glossary

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Recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal

Recipients of the Intelligence Star

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