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Sid Meier's Covert Action is an action and strategy video game released in 1990 by MicroProse for IBM PC compatibles and Amiga.The player takes the role of Max Remington (whether the male Maximillian or the female Maxine), a skilled and deadly free agent hired by Central Intelligence Agency, and investigates criminal and terrorist plots and activities.
William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a United States Army officer in the United States Army Special Forces, and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Beirut from 1984 [1] until his kidnapping and execution in 1985.
He was killed on 18 April 1983 when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the US Embassy in Beirut. A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion including his wife Monique, Robert Ames, Kenneth E. Haas (the CIA Lebanon station chief) and thirteen other Americans. [5] [6] He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with his wife Monique.
This order defined covert action as "special activities," both political and military, that the U.S. government would deny, and granted the exclusive authority to conduct such operations to the CIA. The CIA was also designated as the sole authority under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act and mirrored in Title 50 of the United States Code ...
CIA intelligence chief Charles E. Allen to set up a "Qaeda cell" was put in charge of the tactical execution of the Plan. The CIA concentrated its inadequate financial resources on the Plan, so that at least some of its more modest aspirations were realized. Intelligence collection efforts on bin Laden and al-Qaeda increased significantly from ...
A video montage of airstrikes in Beirut. posted to X on Sunday night, showed massive fires on the city skyline — but the most dramatic scene was made by artificial intelligence.
CIA A-12 pilot killed in a crash in test flight in Nevada. [52] [53] February 15, 1967: Ksawery "Bill" Wyrozemski: An air operations officer who died in a vehicle accident in Zaire. [25] 1968 February 1, 1968: Billy J. Johnson: Johnson, McNulty and Sisk were killed in action during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam or Laos. [54] August 15, 1968 ...
Chapman was killed while fighting alongside the CIA in 2002. [62] FOB Chapman is located near Forward Operating Base Salerno, a military base used by U.S. special operations forces. [12] The CIA's base at Camp Chapman was set up at the beginning of the U.S.-led offensive against al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban in 2001.