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William Alexander "Rip" Robertson Jr. (August 3, 1920 – December 1, 1970) [1] was a United States Marine Corps officer—a combat veteran of the World War II and the Korean War—and a Central Intelligence Agency Case Officer in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970, in what became the Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016).
She was killed in a car bombing of the United States Embassy, Saigon. Robbins was the first female employee to be killed in action in the CIA's history, the first American woman killed in the Vietnam War and, as of 2012, the youngest CIA employee to die in action. [2]
The CIA's authority to conduct covert action comes from the National Security Act of 1947. [3] President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12333 titled United States Intelligence Activities in 1984. This order defined covert action as "special activities", both political and military, that the US Government could legally deny.
Mitrokhin claims that Agee removed all references to CIA penetration of Latin American Communist parties from his typescript before publication at the request of Service A. [16] [page needed] In 1978 Agee began the publication of the Covert Action Information Bulletin. Mitrokhin's files claim that the bulletin was founded on the KGB's ...
Matthew Kevin Gannon (August 11, 1954 – December 21, 1988) was a CIA officer who was killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Gannon was an Arabist who spent much of his career serving in the Middle East. He married Susan Twetten, daughter of Thomas Twetten (later Deputy Director of Operations at CIA ...
Upon discovery of an official cover agent's secret hostile role, the host nation often declares the agent persona non grata and orders them to leave the country. Official cover operatives are granted a set of governmental protections, and if caught in the act of espionage, they can request diplomatic protection from their government.
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 ...
CIA and the Generals Archived March 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Covert Support to Military Government in South Vietnam; CIA and the House of Ngo, Covert Action in South Vietnam, 1954–63; CIA and Rural Pacification; Good Questions, Wrong Answers CIA's Estimates of Arms Traffic through Sihanoukville, Cambodia, During the Vietnam War.