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Headstone detail William R. Higgins' headstone in Quantico National Cemetery. In 1982 the situation in Lebanon started to become more chaotic and violent. [4] [5] [6] Three years before Higgins's kidnapping, William Francis Buckley, another retired American lieutenant colonel working for the CIA had been kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
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.
Tim Weiner has claimed that Christian leader Bashir Gemayel was the "CIA's most highly placed source in Lebanon" and that the CIA "had another national leader on their payroll". [4] The 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut killed several 8 CIA agents and in 2023 the CIA called it the "deadliest day in CIA history". [5]
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.
China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Just seven weeks before the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA intercepted a curious phone call to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
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 ...