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Seven different operations are examined, including the overthrow of Manuel Noriega in Panama, an interview with the man who shot Pope John Paul II, the Mossad operation that eliminated participants in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack, the Americans who actually worked undercover with the Taliban and a Cold War operation to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. However, the first episode talks about the people involved in Operation Jawbreaker, which entered Afghanistan a few days after 9/11 and worked with the Northern Alliance to drive the Taliban out of Kabul and other territories they controlled. Schroen (who died in 2022) is interviewed, along with other CIA agents, as well as senior Northern Alliance commanders who worked with the CIA. The effort to overthrow the Taliban was to prevent them from continuing to give Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who carried out the 9/11 attacks, safe haven in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan. A key Afghan figure interviewed is former ambass...