Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton & Henry R. Schlesinger

Author:Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton & Henry R. Schlesinger [Wallace, Robert & Melton, H. Keith & Schlesinger, Henry R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2008-05-29T05:00:00+00:00

The only TSS-TSD-OTS officer killed in the line of duty between 1947 and 2008 was a casualty of anti-Castro operations. Four days before the Bay of Pigs invasion, TSD explosives experts were training members of the force of Cuban nationals in constructing and arming small charges for harassment and sabotage operations. As Nels “Benny” Benson, a forty-five-year-old native of Eagle Bend, Minnesota, and one of TSD’s experienced explosives officers, demonstrated how to mold a charge composed of thermite and C-4 into a form that resembled a soap dish, an errant spark ignited the materials. The resulting fire threatened to spread to adjacent explosives.42

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