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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...
...Delta Force soldiers are accused of accepting cash advances for trips abroad, then routinely inflating claims of what they had spent and pocketing the difference. Fewer than 100 soldiers are under investigation by the Army...
...requisitions and paper procedures are elaborate, too many people could learn about a mission, compromising both its secrecy and speed. "That's the penalty you pay," said a retired Army general, "when you permit an organization to report only to God." Since the Army will not admit publicly that Delta Force even exists, proving that its members pocketed money that was also carefully concealed may not be easy...
...trained a variety of military units in antiterrorist tactics: the special operations Delta Force, the Army's helicopter unit Task Force 168, the Navy's SEALs (for Sea, Air and Land forces) and the Air Force's First Special Operations Wing. West Germany has its G.S.G. 9 antiterrorist group, while the British government has recently decided to station units of its highly regarded Special Air Services at five airports. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the American lawyers in July, "We have behind us many fine declarations and communiqués of good intent. We need action, action to which...
...military command, however, has 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...