The Tier 1 Unit More Secretive Than Delta Force And DEVGRU

In the 1970s the Special Air Service and it's marine equivalent the special Boat Squadron had exchanged arrangements with their us counterparts the US Army special forces and the US Navy Seals. But there was another US. special operations unit created in reaction to the eagle claw debacle, set up by a special forces colonel with his own experience of working with the SAS which has had multiple names throughout its life, but is mostly known as, The Activity. Contents Following the embarrassing disaster that was Operation eagle claw, a key failure was determined to be due to the CIA’s inability to provide proper intelligence to the mission planners. 18 years after the rescue attempt, it came to light that the CIA had fabricated the Pakistani cook story and had waited until it was absolutely certain that the rescue mission could be launched in order to protect its own source inside the embassy. Initially, The Activity’s role was to collect actionable intelligence and to carry out operational preparation of the battlespace. Once an applicants skills have met the criteria, an interview team is sent to their location. This team typically includes two NCO’s and the unit’s psychologist where a preliminary psych test is conducted. ISA’s first real test came in 1981 for Operation Winter Harvest. In September 1993, ahead of Operation Gothic Serpent in Mogadishu, The Activity had been sent in to prepare the intelligence picture of the battlespace. By 2002, Prior to the formal invasion of Afghanistan, the activity, now codenamed Grey Fox, were tasked with building up human intelligence networks The extent of its success was perhaps most vividly shown by the decision of the UK's directorate of special forces in April 2005 to set-up its own human intelligence and signals intelligence special forces units the special reconnaissance Regiment. Chapters 0:00 - Introduction 0:48 - Formation of The Activity 3:07 - Assessment and Selection 5:46 - Early Missions 9:04 - Recent Missions 10:19 - Success