Through Our Enemies' Eyes
The 2003 study of bin Laden published as 'Anonymous', required by the author's CIA employment. Michael Scheuer was identified and acknowledged the book.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- 2003
- Form
- Other works
- Authorship
- Revealed: Michael Scheuer
- Attribution source
- Wikipedia: List of anonymously published works
- Revealed
- 2004, identity reported in the press and subsequently acknowledged by the author
- Reason for anonymity
- Political risk
- Copyright
- In copyright
The authorship story
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America appeared in 2003 credited to Anonymous, because its author was a serving CIA officer whose employer required namelessness as a condition of publication. The arrangement was institutional anonymity rather than mystery, and it dissolved quickly: press reporting identified Michael Scheuer, former chief of the agency's bin Laden unit, and he acknowledged this book and its successor Imperial Hubris after resigning in 2004. The case shows the modern security state generating anonymous authorship by rule, and the reveal arriving with the author's freedom to speak.
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Who wrote Through Our Enemies' Eyes?
Through Our Enemies' Eyes was published anonymously and is documented as the work of Michael Scheuer. The authorship became public in 2004 (identity reported in the press and subsequently acknowledged by the author). Source: Wikipedia: List of anonymously published works.
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Through Our Enemies' Eyes was published in 2003 without an author’s name.
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