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 »