The Ripple Effect Podcast #107 (LT. COL. Anthony Shaffer)

Oct 30, 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer is a Senior Fellow with both the London Center for Policy Research and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), and a consultant.
He is a senior operations officer and Military Operations Training Course (MOTC) graduate with over 30 years of field experience. He has held numerous leadership positions, including as commander of Operating Base (OB) Alpha (Defense Intelligence) and as directing Task Force STRATUS IVY – a unit that conducted cutting edge technology and information operations from the mid 90s through the turn of the century. He has played key roles in multiple interagency operations that were conducted with the NSA, CIA and FBI.
He is also a best selling author which includes his book Operation Dark Heart, which talks about a classified operation called Able Danger. Able Danger had identified 2 of 3 Al Qaeda cells active in the 9/11 attacks; the ‘Brooklyn cell’ linked to “Blind Sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman, including September 11 attacks leader Mohamed Atta, and three of the 9/11 plot’s other 19 hijackers. The Defense Department attempted to preserve secrecy of revelations made by this book Operation Dark Heart, by buying up and destroying all 10,000 copies of the book.

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