U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

A forthcoming book on the secret military operations undertaken during the Reagan era provides an unmatched account of the nation's most classified intelligence and counterterrorist units. The result of a yearlong investigation into these Pentagon operations shows how, after the failure of the Iran rescue mission in 1980, covert operations shifted from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Pentagon, which, in effect, established a "mini-CIA" in its basement Bl' STEVEf+ Et~RERSEIt; Adapted from...