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That awkward incident was only one result of a review of some $150 million in expenditures by the Army's Special Operations Forces and its Delta Force on covert operations between 1981 and 1983. Investigators for both the Army and the Justice Department suspect that a small number of the Delta Force troops may have diverted as much as $500,000 to personal use and that a Special Operations colonel and perhaps three of his colleagues stole at least $60,000, mainly by double-billing the Government for claimed expenses...
...terrorist attacks like the Christmas-week atrocities in Rome and Vienna, Washington has recognized more than ever the utility of a quick and certain response. At the same time, the Reagan Administration has placed increased emphasis on a "new globalism" designed to assert U.S. interests abroad by providing covert and overt assistance to rebels fighting Soviet-backed regimes around the world...
...been a good deal less enthusiastic about this new breed of warrior. Special Forces are often regarded by the brass as unworthy of precious defense dollars and a bit too independent to boot. Disclosures last November that members of the supersecret Delta Force had been charged with skimming covert intelligence funds only heightened Pentagon suspicions that the Special Forces are a bunch of freebooters. Shrugged retired Army Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, an expert on unconventional warfare: "Special Forces have always been the bastards of the Army...
...problem of allowing U.S. Special Forces wide berth to act as independent operators. This fall at least 80 members of Delta Force were reprimanded or court-martialed for cheating on their expense accounts. The investigations have spawned a series of news leaks that disclosed a wide array of covert operations undertaken by Special Forces. According to the Washington Post, military pilots posing as civilians have flown secret missions out of Honduras to pinpoint rebel radio transmitters in El Salvador, while other Special Forces agents have engaged in spookery normally associated with the FBI and CIA, like bugging Soviet officials...
...opening the doors to Malacaņang Palace last week, President Corazon Aquino was hoping to close the doors, symbolically, on an era of covert monarchy. True to her campaign promise, the new leader turned the Marcos mansion into the People's Park, a public museum. Faithful so far to another promise, the former housewife showed every sign of for-swearing the designer life-style of her predecessors. She still operates out of a guesthouse next to the Spanish-style palace and commutes to work from her modest suburban home...