# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-baer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:59.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-baer"
name: "Robert Baer"
slug: "robert-baer"
description: "Robert Booker Baer is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East. He is Time's intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Baer speaks eight languages, won the CIA Career Intelligence Medal and is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, espionage, and U.S. foreign policy. He hosted the History reality television series Hunting Hitler. He is an Intelligence and Security Analyst for CNN. His book See No Evil was adapted by the director Stephen Gaghan and used as the basis for the film Syriana, with George Clooney playing Baer's character."
tagline: "American CIA case officer and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Baer_2008_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6458123107971746
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Бэр, Роберт"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump