From what is known, CIA special operations consists of the Special Activities Center (formerly known as the Special Activities Division), Global Response Group, Special Collection Service, and we ...

The CIA Special Activities Center, formerly called the Special Activities Division, is arguably the most secret special operations force that the United States has. Within it, there are two main ...

Author ofSurprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins Annie Jacobsen shares more about her book. About the Book: When diplomacy fails, and war is ...

From ProPublica: Paramilitary agents for the CIA’s super-secret Special Activities Division, or SAD, perform raids, ambushes, abductions and other difficult chores overseas, including infiltrating ...

We spoke with Ric Prado, a 24-year veteran of the CIA, about his journey from Cuban refugee to becoming one of the most fierce operatives in the U.S. intelligence service.

WASHINGTON (CN) – A former deputy chief in the CIA’s Special Activities Division demands $3 million from the agency, claiming that after he suffered lead poisoning from instructing weapons classes at ...

Before he retired in 1999, Cervenak was a member of the CIA's Special Activities Division — sometimes shorthanded as "ground branch" — a group of agency officers with military experience who ...

CIA paramilitary officers with the Special Activities Division began secretly training Ukrainian forces in sniping, anti-tank warfare and surveillance evasion shortly after the 2014 incursion.

Confirmation of the death of CIA operative Johnny “Mike” Spann in the Mazar-e-Sharif prison uprising raises the profile of the agency’s Special Activities Division.

Special Forces could not do the same. Although CIA officers were often working alongside U.S. commando teams, there were breakdowns when the intelligence agency was not immediately on hand.

The CIA had a beacon on the ship that tracked the boat right into the center of the storm until it disappeared, a former SAD member told Yahoo News.