Homeland: Saul’s Game
The second, edge-of-your-seat prequel novel based on Showtime’s hit series, HOMELAND, ‘the best thriller on American television’ New York PostDamascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to capture or kill al Qaeda terrorist, Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound where he was supposed to be in hiding, they find it empty. Carrie is sure that someone is leaking CIA information to the enemy and has betrayed their operation, seriously threatening American interests in the Middle East. To expose the double agent, her boss, Saul Berenson, devises an elaborate ruse that will send her on the most dangerous mission of her life.This twisting tale of international intrigue takes fans deeper into the intense world of high-stakes espionage, and explores never-before-seen details of Carrie’s life as an operative in the Middle East, Saul’s past as an agent in Iran, Brody’s dark childhood and captivity, and events involving the trio—and other favourite characters, like Dar Adal—that will lead them to the present.
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TOP SECRET//X1: SPECIAL ACCESS CRITICAL//ORCON/NOFORN/FOR DIRECTOR CIA EYES ONLY/100X1
[Polygraph Transcript: CIA Community Security Center/For Middle East Division/National Clandestine Service/Baghdad Station; Date: 20090621]
SUBJECT: Caroline Anne Mathison aka “Carrie”/Operations Officer/Baghdad Station/MED/NCS
POLYGRAPH EXAMINER: [[Name redacted—see comment at end]]
NOTE: Includes Polygraph Examiner evaluations [[in double brackets]]. Polygraph audio transcript begins here:
EXAMINER: Your name is Caroline Anne Mathison?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: You were born April 5, 1979?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: You are thirty years old?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: You are a CIA operations officer currently assigned to Baghdad Station in Iraq?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: Have you had sexual intercourse in the last week?
MATHISON: … Yes.
EXAMINER: Have you ever heard of a CIA operation code-named “Operation Iron Thunder”?
MATHISON: I … Yes.
EXAMINER: Just yes or no. Have you ever heard of a CIA operation code-named “Iron Thunder”?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: Were you in fact, the lead operations officer for Operation Iron Thunder?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: Did you terminate an Iraqi national named [[redacted]]?
MATHISON: He was going to [[redacted]].
EXAMINER: Did you personally kill him? Yes or no?
MATHISION: Yes.
EXAMINER: What about [[redacted]]? Did you have sexual intercourse with him?
MATHISON: Yes, but it was … [[redacted]].
EXAMINER: Were drugs, including ecstasy and/or Captagon, also known as Zero One, and multiple sexual partners also involved?
MATHISON: No, I didn’t participate. [[False. Subject is lying.]].
EXAMINER: You were acquainted with Warzer Zafir, an Iraqi employee of the United States embassy who also acted as a CIA operative in Baghdad, were you not?
MATHISON: Yes. We worked together.
EXAMINER: You knew him better than that, didn’t you? You lived together and had repeated sexual relations with him. Is that correct?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: Nevertheless, despite your relationship, were you also involved in the death of Warzer Zafir?
MATHISON: Are you out of your mind? Absolutely not. No. [[False. Subject is lying]]
EXAMINER: Miss Mathison, were you, as part of Operation Iron Thunder or otherwise, involved in any way, in a [[redacted]] that [[redacted]]?
MATHISON: No. What the [[redacted]]? [[Evaluation redacted]]
EXAMINER: Just to be absolutely clear, you have no knowledge whatsoever about [[redacted]]?
MATHISON: [[Redacted]]
EXAMINER: During Operation Iron Thunder, were you [[redacted]] and [[redacted]]?
MATHISON: Yes.
EXAMINER: And during that [[redacted]], did you reveal intelligence severely damaging to the security of the United States?
MATHISON: I did not. No. [[False. Subject is lying]]
