All credit is due to The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman, who provides the most thorough account so far of what the significant actions were that CIA
“„Some officials who advocated the approach were seeking to build teams of CIA and military Special Forces commandos to emulate what the Israelis did after the Munich Olympics terrorist attacks, said another former intelligence official.
“„“It was straight out of the movies,” one of the former intelligence officials said. “It was like: Let’s kill them all.”
“„Q: Have they been deployed anywhere besides Iraq and Afghanistan thus far?
“„SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Well see, we really haven’t deployed teams as — you know, as described here as these Strategic Support Teams. Up until now, we have been deploying from the larger base of those capabilities and Defense HUMINT services, as I said earlier, sort of individual augmentations drawn broadly from our capabilities.