CIA-SAS Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Staff

[budanski]

Anyone have any more info on these guys?

[Kitsune]

Yeah...
First this Special Activities Stuff was renamed Special Activities Division (SAD) in 1997.
This unit is top secret and little is known for sure. It is said to consist of around 150 operators divided among three branches (ground, maritime, airborne). In action they probably work in 4-6 member teams assembled according to mission requirements. The opeators themself are mostly former SpecOps guys (SpecialForces, Delta, SeAL, perhaps even Ranger or Marines) that are asked by the agency to join.

[Kitsune]

I did not use this "guys" link befor answering sorry...

So You knew most of it already then.... Ok, there is this Masar I Sharif uprising thing. Theres a picture series here on this side about it, showing some guys thought to be with this unit.
But probably You know that already, too.

[JiJoMacLE45]

Lebanon, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Angola, Colombia, Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, Yemen. In the past twenty years, that is where these guys have operated as well as a ton of other countries.

I also read somewhere that SAD or as they have also been called, Military Special Projects(MSP), recruits a high number of Marines into their ranks.

There was a recent post on this site about MSP in Time magazine, check it out, pretty informative.

[budanski]

thanks guys

[Alphonse]

or Marines) that are asked by the agency to join.

Sorry to bump this up from thousands of years ago, but they recruit from Force Recon for their maritime branch. They just don't take ANY Marine.

John Michael Spann, a Marine artillery officer who was killed in that uprising was probably recruited for the afghanistan war because artillery officers are experts at directing naval and air firepower towards the enemy on the ground.

[ed316]

Sorry to bump this up from thousands of years ago, but they recruit from Force Recon for their maritime branch. They just don't take ANY Marine.

John Michael Spann, a Marine artillery officer who was killed in that uprising was probably recruited for the afghanistan war because artillery officers are experts at directing naval and air firepower towards the enemy on the ground.

I take it you have inside knowledge?

[Alphonse]

Read, research..

Why, would you expect them to hire Marine cooks?

For clandestine secret recipe stealing missions?

[Ericsson]

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[Ericsson]

Just look at the ((special Operation .com)) web-site
they have all the info you want...

[Tielir999]

link didnt work for me

[boy1000]

Anyone have any more info on these guys?

I can IF you have access to this recommend you read JIR (Janes Intelligence Review from 99. They have an article of 3 pages of stucture training, and "job describtion".

They are extremely serious. IF you look at the air devision, they can fly any chopper or flight in the world.

[Renal]

IF you look at the air devision, they can fly any chopper or flight in the world.

For some reason that doesn't sound too likely.

[Beppo]

Read, research..

Why, would you expect them to hire Marine cooks?

For clandestine secret recipe stealing missions?

Actually, even Delta Force recruits cooks...and supply clerks, and fabric repair specialists, and admin clerks, etc etc.

I know this because I was one of them.

(Uhh...one of the HUNDREDS on Fort Bragg selected by rank and job to attend a Delta recruiting briefing, that is... I got tired watching the video!)