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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 ...
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.
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.
At least 12 people were killed, including an 11-year old boy and an 8-year old girl, and more than 2,700 injured in the coordinated blasts, the country’s health minister said Wednesday.
Killed in action during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam or Laos. [42] 1967 January 5, 1967: Walter L. Ray: 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
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been the subject of a number of controversies, both in and outside of the United States. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner accuses the CIA of covert actions and human rights abuses. [1] Jeffrey T. Richelson of the National Security Archive has been critical of its claims. [2]
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.
The program was run under previously existing authorities for the CIA and did not require a new legal determination for the agency, known as a covert action finding, according to a former national ...