He worked with a defense contractor before being hired as an intelligence professional at the Defense Intelligence Agency working in the Pentagon; he survived the &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11 attack&lt;/a&gt; on the building. He claims he was Chief of High-value targeting in The Pentagon during the Second Gulf War where he claimed to lead the effort to track and target Saddam Hussein. The initial targets and attack, known as the "DECAP strike", was identified by the CIA and the actual attacks were planned by TLAM and F-117 (see:). Garlasco was a member of the Operation Desert Fox (Iraq) Battle Damage Assessment team in 1998, led a Pentagon Battle Damage Assessment team to Kosovo in 1999 and recommended several thousand aimpoints on targets during military operations in Iraq and Serbia. Later that year Garlasco debriefed Iraqi nationals to gather intelligence about Saddam Hussein. He described it as "contingency planning for a war that was probably never going to be fought." He also participated in over 50 interrogations as a subject matter expert. In total, Garlasco served for seven years in the Pentagon.