Draft:Global Response Staff

The Global Response Staff (GRS) is a component of the Central Intelligence Agency. Established in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the GRS is responsible for providing protection of CIA employees abroad.

Members of the GRS are known as special agents, and formerly protective agents.

History
The GRS was founded in 2001

Camp Chapman attack
On December 30, 2009, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a triple agent working for the Jordanian General Intelligence Department and loyal to Al-Qaeda, carried out a suicide attack against Forward Operating Base Chapman, detonating a bomb vest inside, killing two GRS contractors.

Media portrayals
The film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi follows a team of Global Response Staff agents during the 2012 Benghazi attack.