React CIA Black Opts

In December 4, 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, a document that prohibited assassination as a tool of the United States Government. Four years later, a CIA operation to assassinate a religious leader killed over eighty people in a Beirut mosque. CIA director William Casey's "direct action" was undertaken in strict secrecy - even from the highest levels of government - as retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. News of these direct actions has sporadically filtered out of the Middle East for many years, but the intelligence agencies of all the biggest players have always had plausible deniability and a veil of secrecy. Now for the first time, authors Robin Moore and Chuck Lightfoot have pieced together years of painstaking research and interviews to create a thriller that may be based more on fact than on fiction. In React: CIA Black Ops, a composite character codenamed Nimrod relates his training in a mysterious section of the CIA's stand-alone Covert Action section directed by "the Council," a Star Chamber organization that ignores the president's executive orders and has no congressional oversight. The Council gives Nimrod a target folder, an objective, and an order: to assassinate those whom it deems to be America's worst enemies. In chapter after exciting chapter, Nimrod describes the perilous operations undertaken to preemptively rub out members of terrorist cells, and gives a plausible explanation of how the terrorists who planned the Lockerbie disaster and the Beirut Marine Barracks bombing may have met their fate.Moore, Robin is the author of 'React CIA Black Opts', published 2004 under ISBN 9781592284528 and ISBN 1592284523.