But according to the history, planners had doubts about whether the shah could carry out such a bold operation.
The dawn raid at the Kunsthal museum in the Netherlands' second largest city was described by police as a well-planned and bold operation.
Read the Document » A Bold Operation One of the most striking episodes detailed in the trove of documents made public by WikiLeaks describes a plot to kidnap American soldiers from their Humvees.
He was twice awarded the Medal of Courage, once for his role in a bold operation against Palestinian militant bases in Jordanian territory in 1968, and again for his part in a 1973 assault on militant P.L.O.
In early 1971, fueled by limited success in the previous year's incursions against North Vietnamese "sanctuaries" in Cambodia, United States and South Vietnamese strategists decided to invade Laos in a bold operation to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the 300-mile jungle road network by which Hanoi fed troops, weaponry and supplies southward to Cambodia and South Vietnam.
The huge operation involved the movement of over 100,000 uniformed troops from Washington by over 400 ships; 600,000 complete rations to start with and 2.5 million more following the army's arrival; a daily flow of three pounds of provisions per soldier per day, and 25 pounds per horse per day – over 500 tons in all each day that had to be brought down to carry out McClellan's bold operation.
The I.R.A. had planted hundreds of bombs in Northern Ireland, but Dolours Price, remembering her father's bombing campaign in Britain during the forties, had argued for a bolder operation.
A long list of subsequent bold sabotage operations included some strategic coups, such as destroying official records the Germans were using to round up young Norwegians for the Russian front or forced labour.
Twenty-six cables raised the 18,000-ton vessel from the seabed 108 metres below: one of the boldest salvage operations ever undertaken.
"This bold, unusual operation" could provide Al Qaeda "with a substantial financing infusion at a time when it is thought to be short of cash," a dispatch summarizing the episode said.
