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CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLIES INTERNATIONAL
P.O. BOX 888
COFFS HARBOUR N.S.W. 2450
AUSTRALIA
Category D Sheet 0048/0501
'Spetsnaz' - The Secret Soviet Combat Troops
D
uring the last few years, Western intel- None of the NATO countries are being
ligence agents have collected informa- spared, not even the neutral ones. In Stock-
tion about a large, hard-core Russian holm, after heavy shooting near the palace,
underground army. In the advent of a the Swedish royal family are kidnapped by
3rd World War, they will prepare the way for agents who were lying in wait until they
an attack on Western Europe and, perhaps, received the green light from their counter-
the whole of the free world. In this text, well- parts in the city.
known American journalist Dale Van Atta,
The elite of the Soviet special commandos
gives an extensive overview of these alarming
could, with the help of undercover secret
facts.
agents, put NATO in a catastrophic situation
A military bus stops at the gate of an Ameri- with one blow. How would the West, with a
can Army training camp in Germany. The shattered arsenal of atomic weapons, heavily
guards, assuming it is bringing back person- damaged Intelligence Service connections
nel from town, approach the bus and are and diminished leadership, stop a major
about to perform their routine checks, when Soviet attack on Western Europe?
they are shot down by bursts of fire from
silenced weapons. As the bus drives on, Even though all this might be a hypothetical
members of the two special forces inside put test, it is serious in its planning. General Péotr
on their gas-masks. Ivanovitch Ivachutin, the bullnecked, almost
bald Commander of the Soviet Military Secret
The sentry guards at the discharge ramps of Service (GRU), has over 30,000 men and
the Pershing-II atomic missiles based in the women specially trained for such tasks.
camp, die within a few minutes under an
invisible cloud of nerve-gas. The ramps are For a long time the Western Secret Services
then rendered useless. did not know of the existence and build-up of
these special troops, who were responsible
A second Pershing base in Heilbronn falls in a for incidents like the assassination of the
similar way. At the same time, five important Afghan President in 1979, and the suffocation
NATO telecommunication systems are being of anti-Soviet initiatives in Bulgaria in the mid-
destroyed - one in Maastricht, Holland, and 1960's. Now it is well known what danger they
the others in Börfink, Kindsbach, Maßweiler present and what their official name is:
and Vogelweh in the Federal Republic of Speznas - in NATO English, Spetsnaz - a
Germany. There is tremendous confusion in combination of the words "Spetzalnava
NATO's High Command in Brussels. Numer- naznasehchenia", which roughly means
ous high officers and politicians are unreach- “troops for special purposes.”
able. Some are found dead in their homes.
"The setting up of 'Spetsnaz' troops is a par-
Near Keflavik in Iceland, a main submarine ticularly threatening aspect of the increasing
defence base of the Atlantic Alliance, some military strength of the Soviet Union," says the
divers appear out of the waves. Using equip- Deputy Secretary of State in the US Ministry
ment previously planted on the sea bed, they of Defence, Noel Koch. "It is meant to destroy
destroy information and telecommunication the adversary's infra-structure and kill key
posts.
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people. In the case of war, this element of the The Spetsnaz troops apply the most brutal
Soviet Power apparatus could overthrow the methods. One of their main training centres -
strategic concept of NATO and even the one Scheltia Vodij in the Ukraine - lies near a con-
of the United States." centration camp where the prisoners are,
according to Suvorov, used for close combat
Cold-blooded Hardness. A typical Spetsnaz training, i.e. beaten up, kicked and often muti-
unit consists of two officers of differing ranks, lated. "That is, of course, much more real than
one radio operator, and one paramedic, as only stabbing sandbags," he says.
well as at least two sabotage and four recon-
naissance specialists. Part of their equipment Sabotage and Murderous Assaults. Intelli-
is usually a type of missile (a so-called gence service reports about a secret
impulse bundle sender), which relays coded Spetsnaz training camp west of the Urals
messages bit by bit via satellite to the central clearly state that manoeuvres against
office, together with a list of further targets for American and NATO objectives are being
sabotage and reconnaissance commandos. practised. There are replicas of commercial
One hundred such units make a Spetsnaz bri- planes (to practise kidnappings), American
gade; each brigade has ten superior elite units and French jet-fighters, discharge ramps for
available, consisting exclusively of active offi- nuclear weapons, Pershing missiles and
cers, whose main task is the assassination of ground supported projectiles. Strangely, a
hostile leaders. According to estimates by the model of these American Pershing-II missiles
American Secret Service, Spetsnaz have a already stood in this Soviet training camp
total war force of twenty brigades each of 900 before they were even stationed in the
to 1,200 men strong, and in addition, at least Federal Republic of Germany in 1983.
four marine brigades. In the eventuality of war, Spetsnaz troops
To be chosen for a Spetsnaz unit is a great would have already moved into Western
honour. "Only those who have been proven to Europe and the United States before a Soviet
the core are chosen," says a deserter of the declaration of war. They would come in the
GRU, who now lives in England under the dead of night with parachutes and midget-
pseudonym, Victor Suvorov. He states (this submarines, or as divers; at the same time an
has been confirmed by secret service unusual number of Soviet sporting and cul-
sources) that many of the existing Soviet tural delegations would visit those countries
sportsmen, i.e. Olympic competitors, are chosen as targets for future invasions.
Spetsnaz people. International competitions Personnel of the Soviet Embassies and Con-
not only give them the opportunity to improve sulates would be reinforced with young men
their shooting, skiing and swimming skills, but and women of extraordinary physical fitness,
also give them the chance to get to know the who would work as guards, chauffeurs and
countries better to which they might one day gardeners.
be assigned as saboteurs.
They would call into action the so-called
Spetsnaz officers and soldiers receive better "sleeping" agents who had already settled a
wages, rations and more holidays than other long time beforehand around the military
army members. They are also promoted bases, weapons depots and telecommuni-
quicker and can retire earlier. On the other cation centres. They would observe the situ-
hand, much is required of them. For survival ation, report about what they had seen and
training they are dropped in isolated areas give shelter to the Spetsnaz troops, if
where they have to survive on their own for necessary.
days or weeks, often without even sleeping-
If the Soviets wanted to launch a surprise
bags.
attack, the troops would mark or attack
In combat, every Spetsnaz soldier has a light nuclear weapon stations, immobilise com-
automatic Kalaschnikov rifle with 300 bullets mand and control systems, disable military
and a bayonet (which can also be used as a bases, destroy power stations and radio net-
saw and wire-cutters), a P6 pistol with works, as well as assassinate top politicians
silencer, six hand grenades or a fire cup for and high officers.
rifle grenades, as well as a James Bond style Assassinations are normally the nucleus of
knife which, by pressing a button, silently Soviet "blitz" war planning. As the atomic
shoots out a deadly blade to a distance of ten weapons of NATO are only allowed to be acti-
metres. vated after agreement by the political leader-
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ship, the removal of these leaders would by fugitives and deserters, Afghanistan is the
drastically delay an atomic counter-attack. centre of current Spetsnaz operations.
"The Soviet Union must disable the political The special task forces help the 120,000 men
decision-making centres of the leading NATO of the Red Army in their fight against parti-
states within the shortest possible period of sans.
time," says C. N. Donnelly, the leader of the
Soviet Union Research Centre of the Royal "The costs arising from the war with Afghani-
British Military Academy. stan are high," says Dziak, "but it is the first
opportunity since the 2nd World War for the
This audacious strategy takes advantage of Soviet military to exercise their armed forces
the slow decision-making process within in a real situation."
NATO. The structure of the Alliance firstly
demands a mutual consultation of all sixteen Careful Planning. According to the American
member states. Apart from this, the mobilisa- Defence Minister, John Marsh, "The influence
tion of the front-line of defence takes several of the Spetsnaz troops reach far beyond the
days. This means the lorries which pick up the borders of the Soviet Union. They are an
nuclear warheads from the Western European excellent instrument for the furtherance of the
depots have to wait their turn, then have to revolution thanks to their unconventional
transport the dangerous freight on public warfare tactics." Not only Afghan soldiers, but
roads to their destinations providing an ideal also soldiers from Cuba and other Third World
target for Spetsnaz attacks. "The major dan- countries have been in Spetsnaz-Training
ger is not a grand invasion," as the British camps in the USSR.
Defence Minister found out in 1984, "but the Spetsnaz units are regularly deployed to test
specially trained sabotage troops." the reaction capacity of the Western Secret
Mysterious Submarines. According to the Service and military. The Soviets particularly
findings of the American Secret Service, the like to use a midget-submarine for this pur-
Russians have already made use of Spetsnaz pose. It has caterpillar tracks similar to those
units for years. John Dziak of the American on tanks, enabling them to drive on the sea
Defence Ministry Secret Service, writes in his bed. Using this they spy on Swedish naval
book “Special Operations in U.S. Strategy”: bases, looking for suitable landing grounds for
their combat swimmers. At one point, they
"When the Soviet Union invaded Czecho- managed to get within 1.5 kilometres of the
slovakia in 1968, Prague airport was occupied Stockholm shelf.
by Spetsnaz troops as ordered by the KGB.
Party leader, Alexander Dubcek, was arrested In March 1984, the Swedish army chased
and deported to Moscow. Other enemies on Spetsnaz frogmen near a major naval base
the KGB list were annihilated." with machine-gun fire and hand grenades. Not
long ago, such submarines were sighted near
The invasion of Afghanistan, in Christmas the straits of Gibraltar and caterpillar tracks
1979, was a classic Spetsnaz operation. High were discovered on the sea bed near Japa-
officers in the Afghan army were lured to a nese naval bases.
reception held in honour of the "Afghan-Soviet
The well-known military expert Edward Lutt-
friendship". They were then locked into the
wak, from the Centre for Strategic and Inter-
banqueting hall and slaughtered by a
national Studies at Georgetown University in
Spetsnaz unit.
Washington, sees these Spetsnaz operations
The main task of the Spetsnaz force, a group as, "a further sign of the care with which the
of several hundred men who had been flown Soviet Union prepare their plans of attack."
into Kabul was, according to the KGB-
The Western European countries in NATO are
deserter Major Vladimir Kuszetschkin, the
already focusing on the existence of Spetsnaz
murder of the president Hafisullah Amin. On
troops. Great Britain is in the process of rein-
December 27th, Spetsnaz troops in Afghan
forcing their Territorial Army. In addition the
uniforms attacked the Daulaman Palace from
British have, through the Home Service Force,
three sides. Led by the KGB, they forced their
produced another instrument of national
way through to Amin and killed him, his family
defence and improved methods of protection
and bodyguards.
for vital installations. This seems to be within
According to secret service reports from the good reason as can be seen in an article from
West, which obtains information mainly from “Jane's Defence Weekly” in January which
intercepted radio messages and statements states:
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"The Soviet Union keep a command of female the criminal investigation police and border
Spetsnaz soldiers at the air base in police of the United States, whose field of
Greenham Common, since land-operated investigation would include tracking down and
Tomahawk weapons from the American engaging Spetsnaz troops in combat, would
Airforce were stationed there in December have to know exactly what to look out for.
1983. According to statements made by Finally, intensive work would have to be car-
Soviet deserters, trained female agents ried out to obtain information about Spetsnaz
infiltrated the ranks of protesters and took part in order to find out early enough how, when,
in all the events." and where these troops might strike next.
The American Ministry of Defence believes "Spetsnaz came into being very quickly and
that a variety of measures are necessary to we are only now realising the danger it pre-
put a stop to the practices of Spetsnaz troops. sents to us," says the Deputy Secretary of
First of all, people affected, like top officials in State Noel Koch. "In order to be prepared for
public life, would have to be informed of their it we have to improve our security precautions
combat tactics. Offices and organisations like drastically."
Translated from the German: "Spetsnaz, die geheime Kampftruppe der Sowjets"
Source: 'The Best of The Reader's Digest'
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