[piasa]

Several hostages were murdered, including a U.S. Marine colonel, hanged by the Hezballah in Beirut, and the CIA station chief in Lebanon who was transferred to Tehran and died under torture during interrogation.

That's interesting- I have never heard that CIA station chief Buckley had been taken to Iran, though Iranian involvement was obvious. Everything I've ever come across implied he had been tortured and executed in Lebanon where his body finally turned up.

[AdmSmith]

"While the Reagan administration considered a military response to the truck bombing, Islamic Jihad continued its campaign against American targets. In January 1984, Islamic Jihad gunmen killed Malcolm Kerr, the president of the American University of Beirut. Months later, William Buckley, chief of the CIA's Beirut station, became Islamic Jihad's first American kidnap victim. Buckley was eventually smuggled to Teheran via Damascus aboard an Iranian plane. He died in Iran after being tortured."

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/lebanon/tl03.html

[SpookBrat]

I guess it would depend on who you ask. This is the first I've heard of it too. I had always understood that he was killed in Beirut, but maybe not.

Poor man was tortured to death. He's the 51st star. Rest in peace.

[nuconvert]

Don't argue the facts with Taheri.

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who knows more.