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Delta Force Operator, Green Beret & CIA Officer | Gary Harrington | Ep. 226

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The Story of SF's First Deployment to Kuwait

In 96, I was my first deployment to Kuwait. So now it's after Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002. And I'm doing cross-border stuff with some Kuwaiti,. like their equivalent of FBI and a case officer. My job was to get assets coming out of Iraq and go into the UN no-go zone. They would bring those assets back to a secret debriefing place where the agency could debrief them. There was this big berm and a 15-foot deep, 15-foot wide trench along the border of that part of Kuwait. You had to negotiate that if you wanted to get on Iraqi soil, you had to cross that ditch.

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