Sign up to get Free Updates!

* Email Address:

Each week, you'll receive a free sample of STRATFOR's intelligence: STRATFOR's Security Weekly, by Fred Burton, STRATFOR VP of Counterterrorism and Corporate Security and author of the bestseller GHOST: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent.

Our Members get:
  • Analysis - what events really mean - without ideology or spin.
  • Situational Awareness - real-time reports of key events - no fluff.
  • Forecasts - rigorous predictions of what will happen next.
STRATFOR - the leader in global intelligence:
  • Security
  • Political
  • Economic
  • Military

Terms & Conditions. We will never sell or share your information


"Burton's memoir of fighting the defensive fight against the burgeoning terrorist threat in the 1980s and beyond is a revealing personal journal of the stress and boredom involved in putting the pieces of the puzzle together to obtain justice. Fred Burton was there, and you will be as well."
-Bobby R. Inman, admiral, United States Navy (retired), former director of National Security Agency and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency

"The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times."
-Eric L. Haney, author of Inside Delta Force and executive producer of The Unit



"With spy thriller suspense and the clarity of a police report, former special agent Burton’s State Department saga reads like a brewing-storm prequel to the current war on terror ... Of obvious interest to anyone with an eye on world affairs.... Most striking is the material’s relevance twenty years later; Burton’s clashes with Hezbollah in Beirut and prickly diplomacy with Iran could almost be pulled from present-day newspapers"
-Publisher's Weekly