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The real life Carrie Mathison revealed: How female CIA agent discovered Bin Laden's Pakistan lair after hunting terrorist for five years
Former Navy SEAL wrote tell-all about the Osama bin Laden raid
Talks about 'feisty' female CIA agent who spent 5 years tracking bin Laden
Similarities exist between that woman, who he only refers to as 'Jen', and the lead character Carrie Mathison in Showtime's CIA drama Homeland
Interview and book detail final moments of bin Laden's life - and how the SEALs shot him dead as his arms were hidden beneath his body
The Navy SEAL who wrote the controversial book detailing the assassination of Osama bin Laden credits a 'feisty' female CIA analyst for leading them to their target, after spending five years hunting him.
Author Matt Bissonnette – whose identity was revealed even though he wrote the tell-all book under the pen name of Mark Owen – only refers to the woman using the pseudonym 'Jen' in his book.
The similarities between her backstory and that of the lead character in the hit television series Homeland are obvious.
During an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, the former SEAL spoke publicly for the first time about his book No Easy Day and described the role that 'Jen' played in the bin Laden raid.
'I can't give her enough credit,' he said during the interview. 'I mean, she, in my opinion, she kind of teed up this whole thing.'
In his book, Bissonnette writes that he sat next to the woman during one of the long-haul flights as they headed to Pakistan for the mission, and his brief description paints a picture of a young and extremely dedicated analyst.
Recruited by the agency out of college, she'd been working on the Bin Laden task force for the last five years. Analysts rotated in and out of the task force, but she stayed and kept after it.
'After the al-Kuwaiti phone call, she'd worked to put all the pieces together... she had been our go-to analyst on all intelligence questions regarding the target,' he writes.
The biggest question facing the SEAL team as they headed into the mission was whether or not the intelligence gathered that pinpointed bin Laden to his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was correct.
For much of the mission, they referred to the target as 'The Pacer' because the only time he was ever seen outside was when he went on brief strolls in the compound's garden.
During their exchange, she told him that she was 'one hundred per cent' certain that bin Laden was The Pacer, which made him worried that she was overconfident.
During the raid itself, those fears were proved unfounded as he told CBS' Scott Pelley that every fact she had given the team from her research was correct.
He went on to describe the moment when the team left the compound having killed the al Qaeda leader and brought his body back to the hangar where the military officials and the female analyst were waiting to see for themselves that the mission had been completed.
Read more: Is the female CIA agent who tracked down bin Laden the basis for the character on Homeland? | Mail Online
Former Navy SEAL wrote tell-all about the Osama bin Laden raid
Talks about 'feisty' female CIA agent who spent 5 years tracking bin Laden
Similarities exist between that woman, who he only refers to as 'Jen', and the lead character Carrie Mathison in Showtime's CIA drama Homeland
Interview and book detail final moments of bin Laden's life - and how the SEALs shot him dead as his arms were hidden beneath his body
The Navy SEAL who wrote the controversial book detailing the assassination of Osama bin Laden credits a 'feisty' female CIA analyst for leading them to their target, after spending five years hunting him.
Author Matt Bissonnette – whose identity was revealed even though he wrote the tell-all book under the pen name of Mark Owen – only refers to the woman using the pseudonym 'Jen' in his book.
The similarities between her backstory and that of the lead character in the hit television series Homeland are obvious.
During an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, the former SEAL spoke publicly for the first time about his book No Easy Day and described the role that 'Jen' played in the bin Laden raid.
'I can't give her enough credit,' he said during the interview. 'I mean, she, in my opinion, she kind of teed up this whole thing.'
In his book, Bissonnette writes that he sat next to the woman during one of the long-haul flights as they headed to Pakistan for the mission, and his brief description paints a picture of a young and extremely dedicated analyst.
Recruited by the agency out of college, she'd been working on the Bin Laden task force for the last five years. Analysts rotated in and out of the task force, but she stayed and kept after it.
'After the al-Kuwaiti phone call, she'd worked to put all the pieces together... she had been our go-to analyst on all intelligence questions regarding the target,' he writes.
The biggest question facing the SEAL team as they headed into the mission was whether or not the intelligence gathered that pinpointed bin Laden to his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was correct.
For much of the mission, they referred to the target as 'The Pacer' because the only time he was ever seen outside was when he went on brief strolls in the compound's garden.
During their exchange, she told him that she was 'one hundred per cent' certain that bin Laden was The Pacer, which made him worried that she was overconfident.
During the raid itself, those fears were proved unfounded as he told CBS' Scott Pelley that every fact she had given the team from her research was correct.
He went on to describe the moment when the team left the compound having killed the al Qaeda leader and brought his body back to the hangar where the military officials and the female analyst were waiting to see for themselves that the mission had been completed.
Read more: Is the female CIA agent who tracked down bin Laden the basis for the character on Homeland? | Mail Online
