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On this day: October 4th Islamic Jihad announces execution of CIA Officer William Buckley —1985 William Buckley had been serving as the CIA Beirut station chief since 1983 when he was kidnapped by operatives with the terrorist group Islamic Jihad. He had volunteered for the assignment following the 1983 Beirut Embassy Bombing, which had killed […]
With the release of “The Final Mission of Extortion 17” by Ed Darack, new information is brought to light about one of the most deadly days for coalition troops in the War on Terror. Darack’s work goes in-depth on the subject, probing the technical details of military rotary wing aviation, accidents, and shoot downs overseas. […]
Two hundred and forty one years ago today, as he faced execution for espionage on behalf of the American colonies, Nathan Hale uttered the immortal line, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Or maybe he didn’t. A study by the Library of Congress (LOC) says there’s no contemporary evidence he […]
Imagine that you are a television executive, and you want people to watch your new primetime show about a “tier one” Navy SEAL element. You order the usual publicizing, send the actors out to appear on morning and late night television shows, advertise in the appropriate newspapers and magazines, and air the necessary commercials to […]
President Donald J. Trump will award Vietnam-era Green Beret medic Gary Mike Rose the Medal of Honor on Oct. 23 at the White House for valor stemming from a historic, top-secret mission in Laos during the secret war dubbed Operation Tailwind, the White House announced today. 47 years ago, on September 14, 1970, 16 Green […]
Just a few days. Hundreds of diplomats, senior officials, translators and hangers-on from all over the world. Dozens of intelligents agents hungry to recruit any one of them as a source, eavesdrop on their communications or pilfer some confidential information. Dozens more counterintelligence officers trying to keep those agents away. Some spies just out to […]
In a video interview, the mother of Abu Tayeh claims that the Jordanian government gave him a promotion and a medal after he murdered three US Special Forces soldiers at King Faisal Air Base. The Green Berets were stopped at the gate checkpoint outside the base where Abu Tayeh was in charge of running the […]
(See Part 1 HERE.) Moments after the last engine on the Marine Corps CH-53D Sea Stallion died, the heavy-lift helicopter began full autorotation, heading toward the Laotian jungle at more than 100 miles per hour while carrying the command element, intelligence documents, and more than 40 troops. These men were the last elements from the top-secret MACV-SOG B Company hatchet […]
Years later, when he read a newspaper article that said Beckwith had a sign on his desk at his Texas-based security company which read, “kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out” he had been disappointed in the man he now considered his mentor. He wrote him a scathing letter, and one of the […]
On a sweltering day earlier this summer, operatives with the Central Intelligence Agency gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to bury two of their own. Brian Ray Hoke and Nathaniel Patrick Delemarre, elite gunslingers who worked for the C.I.A.’s paramilitary force, were laid to rest after a firefight with Islamic State militants near Jalalabad in Afghanistan, […]
For many people born after about 1975, the 80’s was a time of adventure and rebirth from the gas shortages and economic downturn of the decade before. The first space shuttle, Columbia made its maiden flight in 1981; movie goers could take in everything from Terms of Endearment to Friday the 13th; and the geek […]
SOFREP friend and occasional writer Sam Faddis is embarking on his latest mission. This time it isn’t classified intelligence work in Turkey or para-military operations in Iraq, but a run for the United States Senate. You can learn more about Sam and where he stands on the issues at his website. Sam plans to focus […]
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