Exactly. Bill Casey reputedly tried to do something similar when our CIA chief for Lebanon,Bill Buckley, was kidnapped, tortured and eventually killed in 1983 by Hezbollah. In 1985 A car bomb was supposed to take out a Imam thought to have been in charge of Hezbollah, but it missed and killed a number of civilians instead.
However, the institutional memory of the CIA is long and eventually in 2008, they assassinated a man named Imad Mughnieh who they had sought for decades as the Hezbollah chief in charge of Buckley’s ordeal.
Yes, those two events were very close to each other. Same troubled waters, same time. William F. Buckley Jr. had to reassure people that he was very much alive and our murdered agent was someone else. I remember the bastards had a video of photographs of him hanging.