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Hunting Bin Laden & Carlos the Jackal
Attached are some slides Billy Waugh provided roughly covering his ops in Sudan against UBL and Carlos the Jackal in the 90’s. He uses these slides in teaching SF troops the fundamentals of close target reconnaissance and man tracking. I recommend Billy’s book “Hunting the Jackal” for a more detailed run down on these ops. I’ve included this post today as the intelligence community has seemingly gotten out of the business of HUMINT collection. Event the CIA seems to be shifting to greater paramilitary operations and drone operations than doing collection. Billy did these ops while with the Agency. For Carlos, he did PID and close target recce until the French Forces were able to do the rendition. Billy Waugh is an American hero and I’m proud to call him a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Intelligence, Special Forces, Terrorism, UW
Warfare Center Welcomes Special Forces CSM (ret.) William (Billy) Waugh
WarfareCenter.com is honored to have Billy Waugh agree to post some anecdotes of his experiences throughout 50 years of service to this nation. William “Billy” Waugh (born December 1, 1929), is a retired American Special Forces Sergeant Major and Central Intelligence Agency Paramilitary Operations Officer who served more than 50 years between the U.S. Army’s Green Berets and the CIA’s Special Activities Division. He was awarded 8 purple hearts for operations in Vietnam along with a Silver Star and 4 Bronze Stars. Billy is credited with finding and pulling close target reconnaissance on Carlos the Jackal in the Sudan that directly led to his capture. In his 70s, Billy infiltrated into Afghanistan with a Special Forces “A” team to conduct operations soon after 9/11. Billy is a member of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: COIN, FID, Special Forces
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