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On April 18th, 1983, a van rigged with 2,000 pounds of heavy explosives broke through the security perimeter of the American embassy in Lebanon and exploded, killing sixty-three people and decimating intelligence operations throughout the Middle East.
Only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild the networks destroyed in the blast: William Buckley. Assigned as the new Beirut station chief, Buckley arrived to a war-torn city and a CIA station in tatters. A field operative at heart, he delved into Beiruts darkest corners, developing new sources and handling assets.
Then, on October 23rd, a US Marine Corps barracks was destroyed in a plot masterminded by a young terrorist named Imad Mughniyeh. But even as President Reagan vowed revenge, Mughniyeh eyed a new target: Buckley.
Beirut Rulesis the pulse-by-pulse account of Buckleys abduction, torture, and murder at the hands of Hezbollah terrorists. Drawing on never seen before U.S. government documents, as well as interviews with Buckleys former coworkers, friends and family, Burton and Katz reveal how the pursuit to find Buckley in the wake of his kidnapping ignited a war against terror that continues to shape the Middle East to this day.
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Under Fire:
The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi
Chasing Shadows:
A Special Agents Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
Ghost:
Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Harpoon:
Inside the Covert War Against Terrorisms Money Masters
The Ghost Warriors:
Inside Israels Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism
Jihad in Brooklyn:
The NYPD Raid That Stopped Americas First Suicide Bombers
Relentless Pursuit:
The DSS and the Manhunt for the al-Qaeda Terrorists
The Hunt for the Engineer:
How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Burton, Fred, 1958 author. | Katz, Samuel M., 1963
Title: Beirut rules: the murder of a CIA station chief and Hezbollahs war against America and the West / Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz.
Description: First edition. | New York, New York: BERKLEY, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010839 | ISBN 9781101987469 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781101987483 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: TerrorismLebanon. | Buckley, William Francis, 19281985Kidnapping, 1984. | Buckley, William Francis, 19281985Death and burial. | United States. Central Intelligence Agency. | Hizballah (Lebanon)
Classification: LCC HV6433.L4 B87 2018 | DDC 956.05dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010839
First Edition: October 2018
Jacket photo: U.S. Embassy in Beirut after bombing: Bettmann/Getty Images
Jacket design by Alana Colucci
While the authors have made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers, Internet addresses and other contact information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the authors assume any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
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Aman Israel Defense Forces intelligence branch
Black September Organization A covert arm of Yasir Arafats Fatah group responsible for spectacular attacks. The group was formed in 1970 following the Jordanian Civil War and targeted Jordanian, Israeli, and Jewish interests. The group was responsible for the Munich Olympics Massacre in 1972 and the murder of two US diplomats in the Sudan in 1973.
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
DCM Deputy Chief of Mission
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DSS Diplomatic Security Service (agency re-created to meet the new global terrorist threat following the bombings of the US embassies in Beirut and Kuwait)
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
Force 17 Yasir Arafats Praetorian Guard and the Fatahs special operations commando group
GDGS General Directorate of General Security
HLTF Hostage Location Task Force, a joint US intelligence and law enforcement working group to investigate the American and Western hostages seized by Hezbollah
IDF Israel Defense Forces
IED improvised explosive device
KGB Soviet intelligence service
LAF Lebanese Armed Forces
Lebanese Forces The Maronite Christian militia of the Phalange (Kataeb) Party
MI5 Great Britains domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorist agency
MI6 Great Britains foreign espionage service, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service
MNF The Multinational Force assigned to Lebanon to supervise the withdrawal of Palestinian fighters first from Beirut and then back to the city following the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The force consisted of French Foreign Legionnaires and paratroopers, US marines, and Italian and British troops.
Mossad Israels foreign intelligence and espionage service
NSA National Security Agency
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PFLP-GC Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineGeneral Command
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
Quds Force The special operations terrorist branch of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
RSO regional security officer, the head State Department security officer at an overseas embassy or consulate
Shin Bet Hebrew abbreviation for the Sherut HaBitachon HaKlali, or General Security Service
SIDE Argentinas Secretara de Inteligencia de Estado (intelligence service)
SY The US State Department security arm until 1985, originally created in 1916
Tevel The Mossad division responsible for liaisons with friendly intelligence services
TDY temporary duty assignment
L OCALS REFERRED TO it as thunder and lightning: thuds of distant artillery, followed by explosive flashes of fire and destruction. Most nights were like this. An orchestra of serenading car horns would be punctuated by the chatter of heavy machine guns, and sporadically interrupted by the sonic booms of fighter jets. But tonight had been quiet. The ambulance crews, who normally shuffled from one kill zone to another, passed the hours playing backgammon while sipping from cups of bitter Turkish coffee. The all-night falafel stands did brisk business on nights when people didnt die.
The American was up long before dawn, his alarm clock ringing at 5:30 sharp. He showered and ate a breakfast of fruit and cereal, then dressed as a light breeze rolled into his one-bedroom flat. Every night he picked out his clothes for the next day and hung them on a closet dooran old habit from his many years of military service. He always chose a dark suit and a conservative tie. In a country of rolled-up sleeves and safari jackets, he would never permit himself to display such casual abandon.
At 6:45 he walked out of his apartment for the final time. A dim forty-watt bulb illuminated the corridor. When it flickered, the light created menacing shadows. He turned the dead bolt key twice to the right to lock the steel door and then headed toward the elevator and stairs. He had been warned against the lift; he took the stairs.
The stairwell smelled of yesterdays garbage and the mornings cooking. He clutched the banister as he negotiated the narrow stairway toward the ground floor. Arabic music blared from kitchen radios. The sounds of children crying and pots and pans banging together assaulted his ears. As he passed the second floor, he could hear a couple arguing. They always were.
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