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It left a legacy of a new type of soldier expert in unconventional warfare, one that was sought after for other deployments including the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979.
Special Forces Berlin was a one of a kind unit that had no parallel.
They were skilled in Clandestine operations, sabotage, intelligence tradecraft and 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.
Highly trained and fluent in German, each man was allocated a specific area.
In reality it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal.
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.
The first 40 men who came to Berlin in mid-1956 were soon reinforced by 60 more and these 100 soldiers (and their successors) would stand ready to go to war at only two hours\' notice, in a hostile area occupied by nearly one million Warsaw Pact forces, until 1990.
The plan was Special Forces Berlin.
US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began.
The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe.
The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.
Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin.
It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.
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