European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Snake eaters9 and Knuckl red Hom Page t3 accustomed to emf ing with Delia. In to Wake of the Finbarr assent Bockwith was ordered to Pul log Ether a Multi service team under Iho join special operations coins a secret group in Scrable tire ally to the chairman of Itie joint chiefs of stall a special Urel called intelligence support activity was created in 1980 to assist thru Eagle claw Mission by pulling operatives on the ground in Tehran. Isa later expanded playing a More Active Rolo than Iho Pentagon s defense intelligence Agency which collects and analyses intelligence. Isa special operations units and the Cia Havo cooperated since Iho daily Days of Tho Reagan administration on a prefect code named in Spray using aircraft boats and ground stations to collect information about leftist guerrillas in Al Salvador Lor use by the salvadoran military. Belote the passage of the Boland amendment Resl cling american assistance to Iho Contra rebels of Nicaragua. Sea Spray also passed hem information about the Sand Talas. According to Pentagon of Licals. A combined conventional and unconventional Lores con Sling of army air Force. Navy and Marine units occupied the Island of Grenada in october 1983, shortly at or a bloody communist coup late assessments concluded thai the invasion went smoothly considering hat it was thrown together on 36 hours Nolice bul Tho services had trouble meshing. Among the glitches nol mentioned in the official report but cited by Pentagon sources who asked to remain Anonymous a Navy commando unit was pinned Down in the governor general s Palace because of Lack of support air Force gunships failed to show up As planned to take out an Onti air Eraf 1 Battery and an army helicopter carrying is Delia commandos was shot Down. For five nights last september in the persian Gulf army aug helicopters blown by Tho elite nigh stalkers unit formally known As aviation task Force 160 shadowed the iranian boat Iran Ajr collecting evidence that ii was laying mines and finally swooping quietly a Low Altitude to Knock it out of action. The following Fawn Navy Seal commandos swarmed aboard the vessel seizing Iha mines. In the eight years Between the disaster of desert one and the successes of night stalkers and seals in the persian Gulf the United states has made steady Progress in selecting and training forces ready to wage unconventional War. Bul major gaps remain. And an unanswered question always lingers will the United slates and its allies have the political will to use Icse newly reorganized and strengthened special operations forces ? bureaucratic guerrilla War by Bryan Brumley associated press Ince he became commander in it Kiel of the now us special operations come at Mcdill fab Falast april army Gen. James Lindsay has been waging his own guerrilla War behind Iho scenes. While Tho men and women under his command have been secretly battling terrorists and training allies to fight guerrilla con licks in Nicaragua Al Salvador Somalia and elsewhere. Lindsay has been stalking the Halls of the Pentagon and the Capitol in Tho latest engagement in a 40 year bureaucratic Battle Between conventional and armies Machiavelli was a wimp says Lindsay who parachutes and trains with Navy frogman and represents just Tho kind of Soldier the special operations Gen. James Lindsay come looks for. So far Lindsay and allies in the Pentagon and on Capitol kill have had mixed Luck in then bureaucratic Bailies. Under a Pentagon reorganization Bill passed in 1986, Congress ordered the unification under one command of the army Navy and air Force units that Deal in special operations and Low in onily conflict. The total Force of 34.000 numbers 24,300 from the Aimy. Including the Green berets 1.700 Navy seals. And the 7,750 men and women in the 1 St special of crayons Wing of the 23rd air Force. Although Lindsay refuses to discuss the matter senior administration officials say to is also in charge of the Delta couple terrorist unit quartered at fort Bragg and a
