not an emergency." Later in his career, Schroen served in numerous posts, including chief of station in Kabul, Afghanistan (but based out of Pakistan) in the late 1980s. From 1992 to 1994, he worked at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, controlling counter-Iran operations. He later served as chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1996 until mid-1999. During this period, he directed CIA operations to find and capture Osama bin Laden, and began renewing relationships with the Mujahideen commanders who fought the Soviets in the Soviet–Afghan War, including Northern Alliance commander General Ahmad Shah Massoud. He also helped lead a 1997 operation in conjunction with the FBI that captured Mir Aimal Kansi, an FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive responsible for the 1993 CIA headquarters shooting. Although he planned to retire, Schroen was recalled after the September 11 attacks to lead a CIA team into Afghanistan. The seven-officer Northern Alliance Liaison Team (NALT) flew into Afghanistan on September 26 and began securing support among the Northern Alliance, days before the arrival of ODA 555 and ODA 595, each a 12-man A-team from Delta Force and 5th Special Forces Group. He later wrote the book First In: How Seven CIA Officers Opened the War on Terror in Afghanistan (2005) recounting his Afghan experiences. The CIA's review of the book in Studies in Intelligence called it a "mostly straightforward account" of his role which "does a good job getting much of the story out to the American public." Schroen retired in November 2001 as the most decorated CIA officer in history to date. Following his retirement, he returned to the agency as a contractor. By 2007, he was teaching tradecraft to new officers. Personal life and death After two prior marriages to Patricia Ann Healey and Bette Jean Neil ended in divorce, Schroen married Anne McFadden, a fellow CIA officer who spent 35 years with the agency working on Iran, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence, in November 2009. He had three children, two daughters, and a son, Christopher, a Navy linguist and Gulf War veteran who died of cancer in 2017. He also had four stepdaughters, and two granddaughters. While Al-Shabaab once claimed via Twitter to have killed Schroen in a July 2013 attack, Schroen died at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, on August 1, 2022, at the age of 80, following either a stroke or complications from a fall. Schroen was interred at the