Robert Baer

What fascinates me about Robert Baer is the rare arc from CIA field officer in the Middle East to respected author and commentator. I tend to trust writers who have actually lived the world they describe, and Baer's prose carries the weight of someone who operated where the stakes were real, not theoretical. His columns for Time and contributions to major papers feel grounded precisely because he spent years in a profession built on silence. I find myself drawn less to the espionage glamour and more to the question of what a man who kept secrets for a living chooses to finally say out loud.

Name (English)

Robert Baer

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・ベア

Reading

ろばーと・べあ

Born

July 11, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

writer / screenwriter / consultant / intelligence agent / spy

University

Georgetown University

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Career Intelligence Medal

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Baer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1322900

Tags

• California
• writer
• screenwriter
• consultant

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.