Brett Jones, right of center, poses with CIA GRS troops on a recent deployment. But during one recent deployment to Afghanistan this summer, everything changed. At the height of it, a visibly ...

Fmr. Navy SEAL says CIA mission brief included homophobic, racial slurs. — -- He spent 13 years on secret missions around the world for the CIA, but when former Navy SEAL Brett Jones looked ...

The GRS, as it is known, is designed to stay in the shadows, training teams to work undercover and provide an unobtrusive layer of security for CIA officers in high-risk outposts. But a series of ...

Tyrone Woods was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was sent in from Tripoli as part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case ...

The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar ...

Jones, the only contractor with the CIA's paramilitary Global Response Staff (GRS) who has come out publicly as gay, said that what had him so terrified was a disturbing pattern of harassment he ...