CIA agents or " pathfinders " from the Special Activities Division were to be infiltrated into Cuba to carry out sabotage and organization, including radio broadcasts.

The CIA's Special Activities Division created successful guerrilla forces from the Hmong tribe during the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, from the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan in 2001, and from the Kurdish Peshmerga against Ansar al-Islam and the forces of Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

The direct descendant of the paramilitary component of the OSS is the Special Activities Division of the CIA.

The CIA's elite Special Activities Division ( SAD ) units were the first U. S. forces to enter Afghanistan ( noting that many different countries intelligence agencies were on the ground or operating within theatre before SAD, and that SAD are not technically military forces, but civilian paramilitaries ).

After his first tour of duty, Kelly retired from the service, but is later re-hired by the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division ( Special Operations Group ) for another mission in Vietnam.

The Department also supports the foreign affairs activities of other U. S. Government entities including the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency ( specifically, the Special Activities Division ), and the U. S. Agency for International Development.

The CIA's highly secretive Special Activities Division ( SAD ) and more specifically its elite Special Operations Group ( SOG ) recruits operators from the SEAL Teams.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

* Special Activities Division

* Special Activities Division

In the early 1960s, the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to fight against North Vietnamese Army intruders into Laos during the Vietnam War.

US " Paramilitary Officers " from the CIA's Special Activities Division were instrumental in equipping Mujihadeen forces against the Soviet Army.

* Special Activities Division

Bin al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002, after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division.

* Special Activities Division

The Special Activities Division ( SAD ) is a division of the Central Intelligence Agency's National Clandestine Service, responsible for Covert Action and " Special Activities ".

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

The United States having then entered World War II, Lancaster joined the United States Army and performed with the Army's Twenty-First Special Services Division, one of the military groups organized to follow the troops on the ground and provide USO entertainment to keep up morale.

Cover page of The Book of Mormon from an original 1830 edition, by Joseph Smith, Jr. ( Image from the U. S. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Produced only for the North American market, the Special Vehicles Division of Land Rover created only 250 of these bright yellow SUV's.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

One of Germany's leading scientific researchers and Head of the SS Special Projects Division, Wilhelm " Deathshead " Strasse, is preparing to launch an attack on London.

Oberführer ( Senior Colonel ) Wilhelm Strasse or Deathshead is a gifted researcher who heads the SS Special Projects Division.

Jane's Amphibious and Special Forces, 2010, lists the 9th Airborne Division headquartered in Khartoum which includes two airborne brigades and the 144th Special Forces Battalion, an anti-terrorist unit.

However in addition to the 14th Special Forces Division, the 15th Special Forces Division has been identified by Arabic Wikipedia and Human Rights Watch in 2011-2012.

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released a video game in 2003 entitled Special Force and a sequel in 2007 in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israelis.

Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.

James Bissett, Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, wrote in 1990 that media reports indicate that " as early as 1998, the Central Intelligence Agency assisted by the British Special Air Service were arming and training Kosovo Liberation Army members in Albania to foment armed rebellion in Kosovo.

In November 1928, the CCP also established its own intelligence agency ( the " Special Service section of the Central Committee ", or " Zhongyang Teke " ( Chinese: 中央特科 ), often abbreviated as " Teke "), which Zhou subsequently came to control.

He is a close friend of SNL producer Lorne Michaels, who produced the 1977 TV show The Paul Simon Special, as well as the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park four years later.

* Central Baptist Christian Academy – Jefferson City ( K-12 ) – Baptist ( Emphasis on Special Education )

* Colonel Cecil Lee Clark, Army Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Ranger and Special Operations Soldier who has ties to the elite Army counterterrorism unit 1st Special Operations Detachment-Delta (“ Delta Force ”), and the Central Intelligence Agency.

* Central Community Center, the former junior high school, now houses the Park Spanish Immersion School and other ISD 283 programs, including Early Childhood Special Education ( ECSE ), Early Childhood Family Education ( ECFE ), and Community Education programs including Gymnastics and Swimming.

Later this working group ( with Helms in it ), in the meantime renamed the Office of Special Operations ( OSO ), was then taken from the War Department and incorporated into the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ).

Early Saturday morning, 26 October, forces from Russia's Spetsnaz ( Special Forces, literally " special purpose ") from the FSB ( Alpha Group and Vympel ), with the assistance of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ) SOBR unit, surrounded and stormed the theater, first through the gay club Central Station that had opened a month prior in the underground level of the building ; all were heavily armed and masked.

* Special Recommendation ; The Central Committee for Children's Welfare

At 6: 50 PM on Wednesday 7 August 1963 the travelling post office ( TPO ) " Up Special " train set off from Glasgow Central Station, Scotland en route to Euston Station in London.

Constabulary Headquarters directly controlled many other services needed at a national level such as the Special Action Force, Central Crime Laboratory, White Collar Crime Group, and Office of Special Investigations ( which was a counter intellingence group ).

This massive structure last housed the Air Force Office of Special Investigation on the first floor, the Central Civilian Personnel Office on the second floor, and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics along with the Pacific Air Forces Contracting Center on the third floor.

During the period of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation ( CAF ) 1953 – 63, that brought the self-governing and virtually independent British colony of Southern Rhodesia into a federation with the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and Nyasaland, ( Malawi ) the political nature of Special Branch became a source of tension between the BSAP and different police forces in the northern territories.