CIA Comrades Honor Mike Spann by Rescuing Afghan Allies
A quiet descended on the approximately 150 people gathered inside a sleek, open-plan office to enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres high in the skyscraper known to New Yorkers as the Freedom Tower. On three sides were breathtaking twilight views from the site that, twenty years earlier, had been Ground Zero, a smoldering pile of rubble and human remains left by the al-Qaida attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. This was no ordinary Friday evening crowd and the conversations had been neither the usual Wall Street boasts nor inconsequential Manhattan chatter. The event had been…
