 card number 25, card number 25, William Buckley, card number 25 of the Iran Contra scandal trading cards from eclipse comics, William Buckley, and these came out in as before 1988. Card number 25, CIA station chief William Buckley. William Buckley was the CIA chief of station in Beirut, Lebanon, when on March 16th 1984 he was kidnapped by Muslim Shi'at fundamentalist. His abduction sent shock waves through the intelligence community, for Buckley was the CIA's top terrorism expert. CIA director William Casey's decision to send Buckley to Beirut in 1983 had been doubly dangerous. First, Buckley was an obsessive womanizer whose flamboyant ways had led to breaches of security while he was stationed in Vietnam in the early 1970s. Second, his cover had been blown in Pakistan in 1979 when Muslim fundamentalists had ransacked the US embassy in Islamabad gaining access to high secret US intelligence. Casey's decision violated a CIA rule not to send an agent who had been burnt into the same theater of operations for at least five years. In November 1984, ex-CIA agent Theodore Shackley, C.C.R. 24, who had known Buckley in Vietnam, went to Hamburg, West Germany, to meet with Manutcher Gorbinafar, C.C.R. 26, an exiled Iranian wheeler dealer living in Paris who claimed he could arrange an arms for hostages ransom deal for the release of Buckley. In October of 1985, two months after the first US Israeli shipment of TOW missiles to Iran, the CIA received reliable information that Buckley had been taken to Iran and tortured to death the preceding June. It is still not known what secrets, if any, he revealed to his captors.