The Red-Haired Danish Man Who Joined Al-Qaeda and Turned into a CIA Spy

My unusual meeting with a very unusual man

Morten Storm, known then as Murad, while a member of Al-Qaeda. Photo: Morten Storm

I met Morten Storm in a small British village. The hotel details were given to me a few hours prior, and I was asked to make sure no one will know any specific details about the location. It was 2015, and Storm was still walking around with a big, bold, “X” mark on his…