U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000500620003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 15, 1992
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

 A forthcoming book on the secret
military operations undertaken during
the Reagan era provides an unmatched account of
the nation's most classified intelligence and
counterterrorist units. The result of a yearlong
investigation into these Pentagon operations
shows how, after the failure of the
Iran rescue mission in 1980, covert
operations shifted from the Central
Intelligence Agency to the Pentagon, which,
in effect, established a "mini-CIA" in its basement
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