Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era – Steven Emerson
An award-winning investigative journalist tells the explosive inside story of the covert “black” operations conducted by the military during the Reagan Administration—missions so secret they have never been revealed until now. They were known as the “crazies in the basement.” They had mottoes such as “Death waits in the dark.” They infiltrated the home of the leader of Panama, flew espionage planes over El Salvador, spied on Soviet officials in Europe, drew up secret plans to invade Nicaragua, tracked terrorist killers in Lebanon, trained guerrillas in Honduras, set up dummy companies and money-laundering bank accounts in the United States, and conducted missions in Laos, South Korea, Grenada, West Germany, Saudi Arabia, and anywhere else they thought necessary.
And when men in the White House went searching for a way to implement a scheme for selling arms and diverting the proceeds, they found a network ready and waiting. No news story dominated the headlines of 1987 more than the Iran-Contra affair—but as it turns out, what went on in the basement of the Pentagon was just as remarkable as what went on in the basement of the White House.
Based on Steven Emerson’s exclusive access to unpublished documents and hundreds of interviews with intelligence agents and officials from the Pentagon, CIA, NSC, NSA, White House, Justice Department, and State Department, Secret Warriors is the story of how the Pentagon, disgusted at the failure of the 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt, decided it could no longer trust the capabilities of the CIA and instead set up a “miniature CIA” within its own walls.
With names like Delta, Yellow Fruit, Seaspray, Task Force 160, Quick Reaction Team, the Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), and the Special Operations Division, its clandestine units fanned out around the globe, gathering intelligence and conducting undercover operations, often without Congress ever knowing.
Secret Warriors reveals how some covert units got carried away working secretly for the CIA, with the ultimate result of an extraordinary set of classified courts-martial. It discusses some of the names already familiar to the public, but its net goes far wider and its detail much deeper. This is the dramatic story underneath the news—the rest of the iceberg. It demonstrates that the “secret wars” are far more extensive than we have known, and that the parade of revelations is not yet at an end.
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