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...conducted and the troubles it encountered. Its small, specially trained units are designed to operate far more covertly than older elite paramilitary units, such as the Army's Rangers and the Navy's Seals. They have been given exotic code names, such as Yellow Fruit, Task Force 160 and Seaspray. New types of equipment have been developed for them, including small, high-tech helicopters and one-man satellite- & communications radios and dishes. In addition, a far-ranging intelligence organization known as Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) gave the Army for the first time the ability to conduct full-fledged espionage using...
...Operatives from ISA and Seaspray gathered intelligence in El Salvador that greatly helped counter a leftist guerrilla insurrection...
...Reagan Administration took office, the generals made the new ad hoc groups permanent. In early 1981 Colonel James Longhofer, who had worked on Honey Badger, was assigned to head an expanded office of special operations to oversee various types of unconventional missions. One of its field units was Seaspray, jointly commanded by the Army and the CIA, which took over the special helicopters developed for the Iran rescue mission. The Pentagon dutifully briefed key members of Congress, who agreed to put up $90 million to fund the new office...
...operations units. In 1981 they cooperated with the CIA on a mission to slip Christian Leader Bashir Gemayel back into Lebanon after a secret visit to the U.S., foiling a suspected Syrian plot to kill him. Gemayel made it (though he was assassinated one year later). But while the Seaspray-ISA team was in Egypt coordinating the mission with the Israelis, a special operations officer spotted an ISA man taping their discussions, on King's orders. "Young man," the officer reportedly thundered, "this is a CIA mission. Either you put that ((tape recorder)) away or I'm going to smash...
Bolivia was a great test for him. He personally chose to lead the expedition there, determined to prove the validity of his revolutionary theories that had worked so well ten years earlier in Cuba. "The legend of our guerrilla is spreading like seaspray in the wind," Che wrote, "but its true meaning will be lost unless history has a record of what we are attempting to do here." When he reached Bolivia in November 1966, minus his beard and bearing a Uruguayan passport, Che carried a supply of notebooks and diaries to keep such a record. During the next eleven...