Elizabeth hanson cia agent wikipedia

  • Elizabeth Curry Marie Hanson (February 14, 1979 – December 30, 2009) was an American intelligence officer who served with the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Hanson '02 died in December 2009, along with six other CIA operatives killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, little was publicly known about.
  • The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating.

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    AFSA Memorial Plaque List

    Honoring Foreign Service Members and pre-1924 Diplomats and Consuls Who Died Under Circumstances Distinctive to Overseas Service While Serving the U.S. Government and the American People Abroad

    Click on a name to read more about an honoree.

    William Palfrey
    Lost at Sea — 1780

    William Palfrey was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1741. He was an active participant in the American Revolution, serving as chief clerk to John Hancock, as aide-de-camp to George Washington and, later, as a paymaster-general of the Continental Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

    In 1780, the new United Stated Congress unanimously appointed Palfrey as U.S. consul general to France. He began his sea voyage on December 20 of that year on the ship Shillala but was never heard from again.

    [Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Palfrey; American Consular Bulletin, December 1920, Page 9; Foreign Service Journal, October 1975, Page 13]

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    Samuel Shaw
    Tropic

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    Camp Chapman attack

    2009 suicide bombing of a US Armed Forces base in Khost Province, Afghanistan

    The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30, 2009.[1] One of the main tasks of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in Pakistan.[2] Seven American CIA officers and contractors, an officer of Jordan's intelligence service, and an Afghan working for the CIA were killed when al-Balawi detonated a bomb sewn into a vest he was wearing. Six other American CIA officers were wounded. The bombing was the most lethal attack against the CIA in more than 25 years.

    Al-Balawi was a Jordanian doctor and jihadist website writer who was detained and interrogated over three days by the Jordanian intelligence service, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). The GID and the CIA thoug

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    Ten years after a CIA operation in Afghanistan went wrong, a slain officer's family celebrates his memory

    Darren's daughter, Raina, was 2 when her father died, but she says she remembers him holding her. The CIA Officers Memorial Foundation has supported the family financially, as it seeks to do with all families of fallen officers.

    "I think that it's important for people to know that there are people out there in the shadows that are doing behind-the-scenes work that they don't even realize," Racheal LaBonte, Darren's widow, told NBC News' Savannah Guthrie for the "TODAY" show. "They are the sheepdogs to the sheep. There is danger that fryst vatten lurking in the shadows, and there are people out there that are protecting every single one of us."

    Darren had a reverence for the ancient Spartans, and "he talked about wanting to be the one standing on the ramparts protecting America," said Marc Polymeropoulos, a recently retired CIA officer who served alongside him. "He did that as well