Adrian Carter

Background
Adrian Carter is a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the Office's and Gabriel Allon's primary contact with the United States intelligence community.

Carter met with Ari Shamron at King Saul Boulevard. Carter cautioned Ari about operating on the home soil of any of the western intelligence agencies because the Office had agreed not to do so, reminding Ari that CIA and the other agencies would react harshly if the Office broke any of its agreements. Afterward, Ari suspected that Carter had leaked information about the operation to the media.

Adrian met with Ari, Gabriel and Chiara in The Plains, Virginia after the latter two had been evacuated from Argentina by U.S. special operators. He explained the truth behind Erich Radek's appearance as Ludwig Vogel. The four conceived a plan to capture Radek and make him choose to go to Israel by threatening to reveal his son's parentage. They planned to meet again in Zurich in forty-eight hours.

Adrian met with Gabriel Allon in London to discuss matters relating to the attack on the Vatican and on Ari Shamron; Ahmed bin Shafiq and Abdul Aziz al-Bakari were subjects of the conversation.

Carter received Gabriel Allon's telephone call about the terrorist threat and notified the CIA station at the American Embassy in London. When he learned that the ambassador's daughter was outside the embassy, he called Gabriel and asked him to intervene. Adrian met with Gabriel at CIA headquarters and showed him the DVD sent by Elizabeth Halton's abductors; he asked Gabriel to oversee the investigation.

Carter met with Gabriel Allon in Georgetown to talk about the three most recent terrorist bombings.

Adrian met with Gabriel Allon in his house. Gabriel informed him about the events following the death of Claudia Andreatti and about the connection between David Girard and Massoud. After Carter voiced his concerns about Massoud's immunity due to carrying a diplomatic passport, he informed Gabriel that a few years ago the BND had found out that Massoud was embezzeling state funds. The rest of the afternoon Gabriel committed Massoud's financial misdeeds to memory on Adrian's porch whilst Adrian himself was writing a list with questions he'd like to have answered in return. Gabriel left the evening of the same day as he had arrived but not after Carter voiced concerns about him after having gone through the events involving Nadia al-Bakari.

Gabriel meets up with Carter at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington where he tells him that his father took him there in 1963 to hear Martin Luther King. Adrian asks to be part of the upcoming operation to kill Saladin to make sure that he won't be fired because of his mistakes that led to the terrorist attacks in Washington (The Black Widow). Gabriel agrees and Adrian offers electronic and digital surveillance.

Carter is a member of the American delegation that comes to the meeting in London after finding the cesium chloride. Upon their arrival, Carter is not a member of Morris Payne's entourage and during the meeting he sits on one of the outer spots at the table. After the conversation between Gabriel and Payne, the director of the CIA asks Carter to ride in his car with him.

When the events in Morocco seem to have come to a stop due to Mohammad Bakkar not calling Jean-Luc Martel, Carter phones Gabriel in the name of Morris Payne and tells him that his boss would prefer to call Bakkar instead of waiting longer. Gabriel declines and argues that this was never the course of action before and it would only serve to make Bakkar wary. Then the two discuss the two drones that can be used during the operation and the time they need to be in a position to fire.

Alias

 * Brad Cantwell in.

Trivia

 * Spoke seven languages fluently and understood seven others.
 * Father was an Episcopal minister.
 * Volunteers at his Episcopal church in feeding the hungry.
 * He has a dog called Molly.