Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

* The 1986 book " Camp X " by David Stafford is the most accurate account of the activities and personnel of Camp X the secret agent training camp for sabotage and guerrilla warfare at Ajax near Oshawa Ontario, Canada, that was administered by the British Special Operations Executive.

The instructions to mastering these skills through training methods are often found in secret manuals known as miji ( 秘笈 ).

Aided by elements of the military, secret airfields and training camps were established, while Office of Strategic Services and Force 136 agents slipped in and out of the country.

After years of secret engineering development and training, the first Lunokhod ( vehicle 8ЕЛ № 201 ) was launched on February 19, 1969.

The tales of the fida ' is training collected from anti-Ismaili historians and orientalists writers were confounded and compiled in Marco Polo's account, in which he described a " secret garden of paradise ".

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

The training undergone by an apprentice was long and difficult, involving secret rituals and tests

Mount Pleasant was also the secret training ground for the nine-man crew of the Confederate submarine.

They were heavily involved in the wars in Afghanistan in the 1980s and in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as in the training of pro-Soviet forces and various secret operations during the Cold War.

Examples of initiation ceremonies might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism or confirmation, Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, acceptance into a fraternal organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from school or recruit training.

The tales of the fida ’ is ’ training collected from anti-Ismaili historians and orientalists writers were confounded and compiled in Marco Polo ’ s account, in which he described a “ secret garden of paradise ”.

During the Second World War, Whitby was the location of Camp X, a secret spy training facility established by Sir William Stephenson, the " Man Called Intrepid ".

It was during this period that, according to the stories he later told, his twenty years of daily training into the sound system and secret saga of his family began.

U. S. support and funding continued after the coup, with the CIA training the government's secret police, SAVAK.

After being informed of a secret military training program being built that involved piloting high performance aircraft, all the pilots accepted an invitation to join the organisation.

Inquisitive, Amanda seeks to learn more about the organization and ends up working for them, first in an office role and later receiving training to become a full agent, while keeping her new job a secret from her family.

But their secret training manoeuvres were observed by Iranian spies.

The reference to resurrecting dead on planet Jupiter could be a reference to the plot of the film 2001, in which hibernating astronauts who had secret training were to be revived upon arrival at Jupiter.

* In the 2000 video game Spider-Man, there is a secret lair in training mode that contains animal furs, weapons, and crates which say " Property of Sergei Kravinoff ".

The secret training of PLO guerrillas was provided by the KGB.

Hohn supplied 2 folboats for the highly secret ' Operation Jaywick ' training at Camp-X near Sydney in 1942.

In 2005, Schafer's company released Psychonauts, an action-adventure following a secret training facility for psychics.

With the third-party funds, North created an organization called " The Enterprise " which served as the secret arm of the NSC staff and had its own airplanes, pilots, airfield, ship, operatives and secret Swiss bank accounts.

This was a secret airfield and its loss would have shut off the critically needed supply of medium bombers to British forces in Egypt and to the Soviet forces in Russia.

The ATE SP is located close to other military facilities including the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down ( much of whose work is secret ), Boscombe Down airfield and Middle Wallop Army Air Corps Base, where pilots train on the Westland Apache.

In both books Biggles establishes a secret airfield behind Japanese lines which is discovered and attacked by the Japanese before he can achieve his objectives.

Lt. Patterson infiltrates the secret airfield outside Gotha where the fighter is held, cripples German aircraft production, fights and kills Sturmgeist, and escapes the airfield using the HO-IX.

They range from desert towns to a secret Chinese airfield.

Despite efforts to keep new airfield sites and measures to camouflage them secret, there was little doubt that the potential enemy knew exactly where they were and would have little difficulty in finding them from the air.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

The burden of his secret was pressing down on him, as it was on Lieutenant Beckstrom and his six enlisted men.

After all, Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta.

His smile was quick, and his eyes held some promised secret that made my knees go limp.

Adam, beset by changing defense conditions and the open secret that he was part of the new corporation, couldn't deliver from his end.

In a camp, instead of shipboard, hiding the secret was easier.

But the secret itself was just as hard.