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The Global Response Staff (GRS), a paramilitary security wing of the CIA Directorate of Support, was created after 9/11. [21] The CIA also created Scorpions, an Iraqi paramilitary force. [22] Gina Haspel, who would later become CIA Director, requested a transfer to CTC in 2001. Her first day was September 11, 2001.
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Knowing an attack by the militants is imminent, the CIA staff of the Annex make several desperate calls for help. The only help they can get is from Doherty, a GRS officer in Tripoli, who forms a team including two Delta operators that fly to Benghazi after several delays. Meanwhile, the GRS team fends off the militants as they try to breach ...
Shawn Ryan is a podcaster and former U.S. Navy SEAL and contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency's Global Response Staff, known for hosting the Shawn Ryan Show. He is also the founder and CEO of Vigilance Elite, a tactical training company. [1] [2]
[244] [245] In response, the Obama administration sent in SAC paramilitary operatives to assess the situation and gather information on the opposition forces. [ 246 ] [ 247 ] Experts speculated that these teams could have been determining the capability of these forces to defeat the Muammar Gaddafi regime and whether Al-Qaeda had a presence in ...
Senior intelligence officials later acknowledged that Woods and Doherty were contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency, not the State Department as previously identified, [8] and were part of Global Response Staff (GRS), a team that provides security to CIA case officers and countersurveillance and surveillance protection. [9]
In the 2000s, the Global Response Force (GRF) was created as a pooled reserve of CONUS-based military assets that could be used to rapidly reinforce one of the Unified Combatant Commands in the event of an emergent threat to American interests within a command's geographic area of responsibility. [1]
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the ...