Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Director of the Middle East Initiative at the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). He contributed to the PNAC book Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy (Editors Robert Kagan & William Kristol; Encounter Books, 2000) and is the author under the pseudonym of Edward Shirley of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997).
A Farsi-speaking former CIA agent, Gerecht writes frequently on the Middle East, Central Asia, terrorism, and intelligence, in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Middle East Quarterly, Playboy and Talk. He has been critical of the unpreparedness of the CIA for the role thrust upon it by the war on terror.
