* KUCAGE: CIA Overseas Paramilitary / Propaganda Operations

* KUGOWN: CIA Psychological and Paramilitary Operations Staff

* KUHOOK: CIA Paramilitary Operations Staff

The CIA's Special Activities Division's Special Operations Group exclusively selects their recruits to become Paramilitary Operations Officers from the ranks of USSOCOM and primarily JSOC's Tier One Special Mission Units.

As such, members of the unit ( called Paramilitary Operations Officers and Specialized Skills Officers ) normally do not carry any objects or clothing ( e. g., military uniforms ) that would associate them with the United States government.

SOG Paramilitary Operations Officers account for a healthy majority of Distinguished Intelligence Cross and Intelligence Star recipients during any given conflict or incident which elicits CIA involvement.

Paramilitary Operations Officers are also fully trained case officers and as such conduct clandestine human intelligence ( HUMINT ) operations throughout the world.

The CIA's formal position for these individuals is " Paramilitary Operations Officers " and " Specialized Skills Officers.

As fully trained intelligence case officers, Paramilitary Operations Officers possess all the clandestine skills to collect human intelligence — and most importantly — to recruit assets from among the indigenous troops receiving their training.

Paramilitary Operations Officers are the core of each branch and routinely move between the branches to gain expertise in all aspects of SOG.

As such, Paramilitary Operations Officers are trained to operate in all of these areas and environments.

In addition to the twelve months of training in the Clandestine Service Trainee ( CST ) Program to be a clandestine intelligence officer, Paramilitary Operations Officers are trained to a high level of proficiency in the use and tactical employment of an unusually wide degree of modern weaponry, explosive devices and firearms ( foreign and domestic ), hand to hand combat, high performance / tactical driving ( on and off road ), apprehension avoidance ( including picking handcuffs and escaping from confinement ), improvised explosive devices, Cyberwarfare, covert channels, Military Free Fall parachuting, combat and commercial SCUBA and closed circuit diving, proficiency in foreign languages, entry operations and vehicle hot-wiring, Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape ( SERE ), extreme survival and wilderness training, combat EMS medical training, tactical communications and tracking.

All of these Paramilitary Operations Officers operated through a CIA front organization called the Joint Advisory Commission, Korea ( JACK ), headquartered at Tongnae, a village near Pusan, on the peninsula's southeast coast.

This initiative included inserting South Korean commandos and CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers prior to the two major amphibious assaults on North Korea, including the landing at Inchon.

CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers Grayston Lynch and William " Rip " Robertson led the first assault on the beaches, and supervised the amphibious landings.

In the late 1960s, the CIA deployed teams of SAD Paramilitary Operations Officers to Bolivia to train the Bolivian army in order to counter the ELN.

CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers trained and led Hmong tribesmen in Laos and Vietnam.

The ethnic minority forces numbered in the tens of thousands and they conducted direct actions mission, led by Paramilitary Operations Officers, against the communist Pathet Lao forces and their North Vietnamese allies.

SAD sent in teams of Paramilitary Operations Officers into Somalia prior to the U. S. intervention in 1992.

During the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Paramilitary Operations Officers were instrumental in equipping Mujaheddin forces against the Red Army.

Vickers was a young Paramilitary Operations Officer from SAD / SOG.

It was carried out by Paramilitary Operations Officers from SAD and the Army's 10th Special Forces Group.

He was selected from the elite to become a Paramilitary Operations Officer in the CIA's famed Special Activities Division in 1960.

Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002 in which the United States military and CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with allied Afghan military forces, and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and non-NATO forces attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.

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

In the initial stages of the War in Afghanistan USSOCOM forces linked up with CIA Paramilitary Officers from Special Activities Division to defeat the Taliban without the need for large-scale conventional forces.

USSOCOM's 10th Special Forces Group, elements of JSOC and CIA / SAD Paramilitary Officers linked up again and were the first to enter Iraq prior to the invasion.

SAD / SOG also conducts special reconnaissance, that can be either military or intelligence driven, but is carried out by Paramilitary Officers ( also called Paramilitary Operatives ) when in " non-permissive environments ".

The primary strengths of SAD / SOG Paramilitary Officers are agility, adaptability, and deniability.

OSS Paramilitary Officers parachuted into many countries then behind enemy lines, including France, Norway, Greece and The Netherlands.

In addition, SAD Paramilitary Officers were responsible for the Dalai Lama's clandestine escape to India, narrowly escaping capture and certain execution by the Chinese government.

* In 2002, Scott Leberecht directed a film adaptation of The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special as part of the American Film Institute's director's studies program.

This started the Bangladesh Liberation War in which the freedom fighters, joined in December 1971 by 400, 000 Indian soldiers, faced the Pakistani Armed Forces of 365, 000 plus Paramilitary and collaborationist forces.

These include Lobocop ( a RoboCop parody ); Blazing Chain of Love ( in which he is sent on a job to a harem ); Paramilitary Christmas Special ( in which he is contracted by the Easter Bunny to assassinate Santa Claus ); Infanticide ( where he kills his daughter and all of his other bastard offspring that she has gathered to try to kill him ); Convention Special ( a send-up of comic book conventions ); and Unamerican Gladiators ( in which Lobo takes part in a deadly televised game show ).

Omar Abdullah was also accused of covering up the rape and murder of two young women in Shopian, which was allegedly perpetrated by Indian Paramilitary Forces.

The Marakwet community and particularly those from Marakwet East Constituency had been persecuted raided severally by marauding Pokot warriors, which the KANU Government had failed to stop despite the presence of the Army, the Police and Paramilitary police units in the area.

Paramilitary groups such as the Ku Klux Klan had intimidated blacks or barred them from the polls in numerous elections before the Redemption.

* Serb Paramilitary groups i. e. Arkan's White tigers and many more

Paramilitary forces deal with preventing and controlling civil disturbances and insurrection.

Paramilitary organisations include 2, 000 Gendarmerie in 20 companies, and a Presidential Guard, possibly organised into a battalion.

* Jago Salmon, A Paramilitary Revolution: The Popular Defence Forces, Small Arms Survey HSBA Working Paper No. 10, December 2007

Paramilitary forces were estimated at 108, 000 in 2011.

Separately Paramilitary Police have been reported.

Paramilitary organizations operating under the guise of sports clubs have trained their members in squad tactics, hand to hand combat and weapons handling.

Although the CIA in general and Charlie Wilson, a Texas Congressman, have received most of the attention, the key architect of this strategy was Michael G. Vickers, a young Paramilitary Officer.

Avrakotos hired Michael G. Vickers, a young Paramilitary Officer, to enhance the guerilla's odds by revamping the tactics, weapons, logistics, and training used by the Mujahideen.

Pelosi met with Uribe and later released a statement that she and other members of Congress had " expressed growing concerns about the serious allegations " of links between Paramilitary groups and Colombian government officials.

Paramilitary trainers would train guerrilla units, with resupply coming via airdrops, and specialized short takeoff and landing aircraft using makeshift dirt airstrips.

Paramilitary groups such as the Front de Libération nationale ( FLN ) appeared, claiming an Arabo-Islamic brotherhood and state.

Paramilitary recruiting, weapons storage, communications, propaganda, and medical services were all run out of ACDEGAM headquarters.

* January: The government creates the Armed Police Force, a Paramilitary force to fight the insurgents.

* Dzhaba Ioseliani, 76 ; Oft-Imprisoned Leader of Georgian Paramilitary Force Los Angeles Times.

The first casualty of the conflict came from this team and was a Paramilitary officer and former Delta Force operator name Larry Freedman.

Paramilitary violence continued to suppress black voting.