CIA remembers losses in covert operations.

FILE - In this May 23, 2002, file photo, the American flag is reflected off of a marble slab of the CIA memorial wall containing stars in the lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va. While the nation remembers its military war dead on Memorial Day 2012, the CIA marked the loss of colleagues in the hidden, often dangerous world of espionage, adding a new star to the CIA’s memorial wall and more than a dozen names to the agency’s Book of Honor. The new star carved into the agency’s memorial wall was for Jeffrey Patneau, a young officer killed in a car crash in Yemen in September 2008.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is remembering those lost in covert operations, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its Book of Honor.

The star is for Jeffrey Patneau, a young officer killed in a car crash in Yemen in September 2008.

CIA Director David Petraeus marked the loss and others to the war on terrorism at a private ceremony at CIA headquarters this past week.

The addition of the 15 names to the CIA's Book of Honor means their families can now acknowledge where their loved ones worked when they died.

Most were killed in terrorist acts over the last three decades in places like Lebanon, Kenya and Pakistan.

 

Saturday, May 26, 2012