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Operation Ivory Coast carried_out_attack
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“To both Colby's and Shackley's credit, their differences remained minor. Another intelligence mission principally involving special forces at the MAC SOG was a prisoner rescue under the code name Bright Light. The most spectacular mission w…”
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Operation Ivory Coast came off without a hitch, unlike the latter Iranian hostage fiasco, but it illustrated a different problem with those kinds of missions. Absolutely zero prisoners were found. Intelligence on prisoner locations in rescu…
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undertaken between 66 and 73. Fully 98 were raids. The rescue missions freed several hundred South Vietnamese soldiers and 60 civilians, but only one American prisoner. But he died shortly after from wounds that had been inflicted at the la…