Talk about a story with everything and a tragic one at that. A feature published by Yahoo News recounts the tragic story of four CIA operators that were sent into the nexus of the Philippine and South China Seas to place a camouflaged electronic intelligence gathering device used for monitoring suspicious Chinese military traffic. This was 12 years ago, before China's manmade islands and militarization of the region emerged to become a foreign policy powder keg. It was also a time when the CIA's Maritime Branch was adrift, struggling for validity. In the end, four men sailed directly into a hurricane in an attempt to accomplish the espionage mission and were never heard from again.
Here is just a taste of the story:
The piece offers a unique look into a real-world CIA operation that has all the trappings of a Hollywood movie—in fact, a very similar camouflaged signals intelligence pod was just featured on the final season of Showtime's Homeland. But this would be a disaster movie, not triumphant espionage yarn.
In the end, four of the stars of the CIA's sacred Memorial Star Wall belong to these men. Give the piece a full read, it can be found here, and let's talk about it in the discussion section down below.
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