The Interrogator

I Spy by Foreign Policy

Feb 2, 202130:32Society & Culture

FBI special agent George Piro spent seven months interrogating deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, establishing a rapport and then getting him to reveal the truth about the country's weapons of mass destruction. Check...

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