Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Special Study Mission to Berlin
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Special Study Mission to Berlin
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Special Study Mission to Berlin
Special Study Mission to Berlin. Report by Hon. Cornelius E. Gallagher and Hon. Alvin M. Bentley
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Publisher:
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Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Report of Special Study Mission to Europe
Author: Leonard Farbstein
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Report of Special Study Mission to Europe, Pursuant to H. Res. 143..., March 29, 1970
Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Special Forces Berlin
Author: James Stejskal
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1612004458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The previously untold story of a Cold War spy unit, “one of the best examples of applied unconventional warfare in special operations history” (Small Wars Journal). It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two US Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the expected juggernaut, if and when a war began. This plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission—should hostilities commence—was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality, it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal. Highly trained and fluent in German, each of these one hundred soldiers and their successors was allocated a specific area. They were skilled in clandestine operations, sabotage, and intelligence tradecraft, and were able to act, if necessary, as independent operators, blending into the local population and working unseen in a city awash with spies looking for information on their every move. Special Forces Berlin left a legacy of a new type of soldier, expert in unconventional warfare, that was sought after for other deployments, including the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979. With the US government officially acknowledging their existence in 2014, their incredible story can now be told—by one of their own.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1612004458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The previously untold story of a Cold War spy unit, “one of the best examples of applied unconventional warfare in special operations history” (Small Wars Journal). It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two US Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the expected juggernaut, if and when a war began. This plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission—should hostilities commence—was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality, it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal. Highly trained and fluent in German, each of these one hundred soldiers and their successors was allocated a specific area. They were skilled in clandestine operations, sabotage, and intelligence tradecraft, and were able to act, if necessary, as independent operators, blending into the local population and working unseen in a city awash with spies looking for information on their every move. Special Forces Berlin left a legacy of a new type of soldier, expert in unconventional warfare, that was sought after for other deployments, including the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979. With the US government officially acknowledging their existence in 2014, their incredible story can now be told—by one of their own.
Special Study Mission on International Organization and Movements
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Publisher:
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Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Report of the Special Study Mission to Africa
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Study Mission to East Berlin, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
Author: Claiborne Pell
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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