The CIA honors its fallen

Last year there were 90 – this year there are 102. Stars on the wall at CIA headquarters. 12 Stars were added yesterday to commemorate the agency’s fallen heroes. Seven of the 12 died in Khost, Afghanistan last December. The other five of those killed died engaged in clandestine operations. According to CIA Director Leon Panetta, the sensitivity of their work requires that the nature and their names of course remain classified and secret.

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