Sarah Carlson

About Sarah Carlson

Sarah M. Carlson served as a targeting analyst in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. Prior to that, she served as a counterterrorism analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency. She also completed rotations to the National Counterterrorism Center and U.S. Northern Command. Her counterterrorism career focused on groups operating in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia and she traveled throughout those regions.

Since leaving the CIA, Sarah has continued in public service with local government in the Seattle area as an emergency manager at the county and city levels, where she has specialized in all-hazards preparation, disaster response, and alert and warning.

Her first book, In the Dark of War: A CIA Officer’s Inside Account of the U.S. Evacuation from Libya, is now available.

Instagram/Facebook: @shespiesadventure
Twitter: @smcarls1

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