Delta Force organization
also: the famed Delta Force, Delta, Delta forces, Deltas, Delta 4s, Special Forces Operational Detachment, Delta
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Claims (17)
William Lloyd Garrison member_of
Delta Force documented
“In late August, Task Force Ranger, a contingent of 400 special ops troops with 16 helicopters, a Delta Force element plus a company of Rangers deployed to the dish. Mortars shelled the airport as they landed. Welcome to the dish. Major Gene…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 35:56
Larry Friedman member_of
Delta Force documented
“Tumarka in January was carried off in exactly the same way. The first American death of the Somali operation was in fact a CIA assignee, Sergeant Larry Friedman of Delta Force, detached to work with the CIA. Conditions were never easy. Unli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 23:19
Delta Force member_of
Joint Special Operations Command documented
“James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 45:56
Charlie Beckwith trained
Delta Force book_quoted
“Major Burris, with his cartoon-like character, he reminded him of Dennis the Menace. Burris emphasized that Delta needed to arrive in Tehran as a cohesive unit, which ruled out any kind of a parachute drop. A long-range helicopter flight so…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 34:44
Charlie Beckwith headed
Delta Force documented
“that met them at the remote desert location. That site soon became known as Desert 1. The helicopters would fly Delta to Desert 2, a staging base 50 miles from Tehran, then hide while the rescue took place. Colonel Beckwith, the Delta Force…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 47:40
Richard Meadows member_of
Delta Force documented
“Meadows became involved in the planning just a few days after the embassy seizure when Beckwith sent him to Washington. A legendary special forces figure in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows now struck the CIA as an amateur with insufficient suppo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 50:27
William Boykin member_of
Delta Force documented
“Howard Hart briefed the intelligence to Beckwith four hours before Delta was to leave for Desert One. Beckwith asked his air officer, Major William Boykin, to say a prayer. The blessing proved insufficient to overcome all of the obstacles. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 59:28
James Reese member_of
Delta Force documented
“James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 45:56
George H.W. Bush funded
Delta Force host_asserted
“Escobar soon fled the prison, which compelled Colombian President Cesar Gaviria to ask the U.S. to expand the mission. Bush authorized the clandestine deployment of Delta Force and other U.S. armed forces, which continued as a multi-million…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 45:41
Delta Force spied_on
Pablo Escobar host_asserted
“Escobar soon fled the prison, which compelled Colombian President Cesar Gaviria to ask the U.S. to expand the mission. Bush authorized the clandestine deployment of Delta Force and other U.S. armed forces, which continued as a multi-million…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 45:41
United Wa State Army founded
Delta Force documented
“Elite commando units, Blue Light and Delta. These initiatives received personal attention from Brzezinski. The third development was the fall of the Shah of Iran. What followed in its wake? Policymakers and intelligence analysts either refu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 1:05:03
Zbigniew Brzezinski funded
Delta Force documented
“Blue Light and Delta. These initiatives against terrorism received special attention and support from Brzezinski, President Carter's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. The second development that elicited a covert action respo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 1:07:52
James Reese member_of
Delta Force documented
“James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 45:56
Delta Force carried_out_attack
Osman Atto documented
“The Delta Force made an instant drop-in, capturing Otto. Admiral Howe radiated optimism. Nothing's going their way. You're taking casualties, but hey, let's be optimistic. Others had a sense of foreboding. A fresh four-point plan approved b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 43:41
United Wa State Army founded
Delta Force documented
“one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire force. Imagine that. So with the suppor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 1:07:21
Steven Hatfill trained
Delta Force book_quoted
“he was commissioned to build a fake mobile bioweapons lab that the famed Delta Force would train with in an effort to help the outfit locate weapons of mass destruction.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 34:11
Delta Force member_of
Arrow Air Flight 950 speculative
“It has been speculated by various investigators that the boxes loaded into the hold contain items ranging from Hawk missile system parts rejected by the Iranians during Oliver North Bill Casey's Iran-Contra dealings to dead members of a fai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File Part 14 @ 23:12
Mentions (34)
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Stephen Hatfill, H-A-T-F-I-L-L, like all good SAIC contractors, cashed in on the Iraq gravy train. In late 2001, he was commissioned to build a fake mobile bioweapons lab that the famed Delta Force would train with in an effort to help the …
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Reportedly, this was not the only non-functioning bio lab Hatfield developed for Special Operation Forces either. He also helped design a similar non-functioning lab for the Army Special Forces to train with in an unidentified Western state…
▶ 35:05
would gain infamy in the wake of the U.S. invasion. In the aftermath, the search for weapons of mass destruction was on. The U.S., in conjunction with its partners, was looking everywhere. They created an Iraq survey group to carry out this…
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That they lied about? Oh, that's so cool. All right. Over the course of the investigation, Kay and his team stumbled upon a tractor trailer that bore remarkable similarities to the lab, the fake lab, the Hatfield set up for the Delta Force.…
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Escobar soon fled the prison, which compelled Colombian President Cesar Gaviria to ask the U.S. to expand the mission. Bush authorized the clandestine deployment of Delta Force and other U.S. armed forces, which continued as a multi-million…
▶ 45:56
James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…
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And it is those times when the military ends up dying for a CIA operation gone bad. So, yes, you're right. They have a lock on military support. And that's the whole thing with the SF guys, the Green Berets, the Deltas and all those guys. S…
▶ 29:06
equipment package that goes on a standard 130. So in the Air Force budget, they budget for the 130. And then SOCOM goes to Congress and says in a separate line item, I need this amount of money to retrofit Air Force hardware to make it miss…
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one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire force. Imagine that. So with the suppor…
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They got warehouses upon warehouses upon warehouses. As a matter of fact, one of those warehouses was just outside of San Antonio. And I mean, it was like multiple football fields full of weapons. So, yeah, they definitely had weapons. I di…
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and how spies operate. Devices have become more subtle, weapons more lethal, aircraft more capable. The secrecy of these activities make it difficult to apply conventional techniques when secret warriors get in trouble. That is what happene…
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participate in the conversations. Neither the chairman, General David Jones, or Colonel Beckwith liked the initial plan. Both wanted more striking power. Delta only had 120 troopers, yet every man and pound of equipment inserted to give the…
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Just a week after the embassy seizure, an Air Force special operations expert, Colonel James Kyle, was summoned from his post in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to plan the airside of the mission. At first called Rice Bowl to suggest an Asian loca…
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But these lack sufficient precise navigational gear of failing remedied by efforts of CIA's Chuck Gilbert. Marine pilots were to fly the craft because Navy airmen lacked experience in long-distance flights over land. Delta 4s, a separate un…
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that met them at the remote desert location. That site soon became known as Desert 1. The helicopters would fly Delta to Desert 2, a staging base 50 miles from Tehran, then hide while the rescue took place. Colonel Beckwith, the Delta Force…
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He left Tehran repeatedly to brief CIA officials that were located both in Rome and Athens. Bob personally advised Charlie Beckwith, but Beckwith wanted all the data rechecked by someone he trusted. After the CIA rejected several Delta Forc…
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Richard Keith. A Virginian Meadows southern accent apparently struck the Iranian as Irish enough. Holy crap. He arrived in Tehran on April 21st, three days before the scheduled start of Eagle Claw. Just as Delta Force flew across the Atlant…
▶ 59:28
Howard Hart briefed the intelligence to Beckwith four hours before Delta was to leave for Desert One. Beckwith asked his air officer, Major William Boykin, to say a prayer. The blessing proved insufficient to overcome all of the obstacles. …
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And then to the Nimitz to check on the helicopters. One of the choppers encountered navigational problems. Two more suffered mechanical failures in a dust storm. Their innocent Iranian passerby in a bus and trucks blundered into the Delta o…
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Reserve and Guard units assumed the bulk of special operation missions with a force level of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to conduct counterinsurgencies. Imagine that. Talk about the self-licking ice cream cone. With the s…
▶ 46:25
John McMahon would be astonished at what presently occurred in the Hindu Kush. The agency's deputy director of operations, McMahon, knew nothing about the Near East. His baptism of fire had been the Iranian hostage crisis. He had earned goo…
▶ 19:51
appropriated dollars. That's not counting how much covert money was spent. Director Casey made his first visit to the front in June 1982. Soon after that began the military exercises in which hundreds of American troops and engineers for co…
▶ 16:09
After all of the work, there was no reports of Q-boats attacking vessels that were smuggling arms across the Gulf of Forensica that separates Nicaragua from El Salvador, because that was not the purpose of them at all. The U.S. Southern Com…
▶ 23:19
Tumarka in January was carried off in exactly the same way. The first American death of the Somali operation was in fact a CIA assignee, Sergeant Larry Friedman of Delta Force, detached to work with the CIA. Conditions were never easy. Unli…
▶ 35:56
In late August, Task Force Ranger, a contingent of 400 special ops troops with 16 helicopters, a Delta Force element plus a company of Rangers deployed to the dish. Mortars shelled the airport as they landed. Welcome to the dish. Major Gene…
▶ 43:41
The Delta Force made an instant drop-in, capturing Otto. Admiral Howe radiated optimism. Nothing's going their way. You're taking casualties, but hey, let's be optimistic. Others had a sense of foreboding. A fresh four-point plan approved b…
▶ 44:16
than the old one. Garrett Jones saw a report from headquarters called Looming Foreign Policy Disaster. Langley's pressured the station to advise U.S. operations and intentions, which left Jones angry at being asked to spy on his own side in…
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and they were told to shut up. Cheetah, one of Jones' case officers, was in charge of the newest network, based on a splinter group from Adid's forces. Early on October 3rd, Cheetah reported a gathering of Adid's top aides. Warthog, the CIA…
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James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…
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following the British model. Triple Canopy was a 2003 startup, you know, right at the same time that they're deciding that they're going to basically do Iraq and then Afghanistan by contract. It was founded in Chicago by Special Forces vete…
▶ 23:12
It has been speculated by various investigators that the boxes loaded into the hold contain items ranging from Hawk missile system parts rejected by the Iranians during Oliver North Bill Casey's Iran-Contra dealings to dead members of a fai…
▶ 23:42
were also on board the flight. Task Force 160 was based at Fort Campbell, is the Army Special Forces Aviation Battalion tasked with support, not only Special Forces, but Delta Force and the CIA. Dubbed Night Stalkers, Task Force 160 has a h…
▶ 24:35
Paired up with Delta Force, Task Force 160 would be the air support unit that would participate in any hostage rescue attempt. For this mission, they would not only ship their helicopters and support equipment normally on C-5 aircraft, but …
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with priority bases, fitting the description of what the pilots saw happening there. They could also include weapons and explosives. Could it be that Task Force 160 and Delta Force were using the 101st base camp as a jumping off point for c…