The story
Founder
Don Feeney grew up in Brooklyn, joined the Army at 17, and joined in the Delta Force in 1978, survived the Operation Eagle Claw crash that killed 8 men, and worked in Beirut in 1982. He is a former Delta Force team leader who retired from the US Army with an honorable discharge.
1992 attempt in Iceland
In 1992, CTU was retained on behalf of two American citizens, Fred Pittman and Brian Grayson, seeking to locate and repatriate their respective daughters. The girls' Icelandic mother, Erna Eyjólfsdóttir (Erna Pittman Grayson) had taken them to Iceland in violation of Florida court orders. CTU's mission ended unsuccessfully, with the two daughters remaining in Iceland and Feeney and CTU employee Brian Grayson being arrested, tried and convicted of kidnapping in an Icelandic court. Feeney was sentenced to serve two years in prison. In 1993, he escaped from Litla-Hraun prison facility along with another prisoner but both where caught the following day in Vestmannaeyjar where they were waiting for a charter flight from Íslandsflug to take them to the Faroe Islands. He was later released from prison in January 1994.
The event was the subject of an NBC Dateline story titled, "Rambo Goes to Reyjavik." Unhappy with their portrayal, CTU unsuccessfully sued NBC for defamation.
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