About Fred Burton, Author Of

About Fred Burton, author of

Chasing Shadows and

GHOST: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

Fred Burton is Vice President of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at Stratfor, the largest globalprivate intelligence companyand is "one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organizations."

Mr. Burton is a former State Department counter terrorism deputy chief and Special Agent who orchestrated thearrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing. Mr. Burtonalso conducted the debriefings of the U.S. hostages held in Lebanon; investigated the planecrash which killed President Zia of Pakistan, the U.S. Ambassador, and U.S. Army General;was instrumental in the development of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program totarget terrorists like Ramzi Yousef and Osama Bin Laden; investigated the assassination ofIsraeli President Rabin; the killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane; the al-Qaeda New York City bombingplots; the Libyan backed terrorist attacks on Diplomats in Sanaa and Khartoum; and countlessother terrorist attacks and threats around-the-globe.

He also worked as a police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland and for the U.S. Secret Service. In 2008, Burton was appointed to the Texas Border Security Council by Gov. Rick Perry and also served as the Assistant-Director of Intelligence and Counterterrorism for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Burton is the author of a national bestseller memoir,Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (Random House; June 2008) and Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice (2011, Palgrave.)

He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper 360, Glen Beck, Lou Dobbs, CNN, CNBC, CBC, ABC News, Fox and Friends, Al-Jazeera, NPR, BBC, VOA, The John Batchelor Show, Coast-to-Coast radio, Drug Wars: The Movie, Gangland and The History Channel. He lives in Austin, TX.