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Revealed: The CIA bodyguard unit that safeguards officers and spies
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 22:20
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Increasingly, CIA case officers operating on counterterrorism assignments in the post-9/11 environment find themselves in warzones with a level of physical risk rarely encountered during the Cold War. CIA operations planners believe that case officers cannot properly run foreign assets while constantly having to worry about their personal safety, as well as the safety of their recruits. To address this problem, the CIA put together a new unit shortly after 9/11, which goes by the name Global Response Staff (GRS).
2012-12-26 22:15:13
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