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...surfacing of a 5,000-ft. airstrip at Retalhuleu. Starting in September, an airlift of U.S. planes shuttled between recruiting centers in Florida and the Guatemalan camps, bringing in the first of more than 2,000 combat trainees. Later, Alejos helped establish two more camps, one at San Juan Acul, close to the Mexican border, the other at Dos Lagunas in the jungles of northern Guatemala. A heavyset, grey-haired CIA agent known as "Charlie" took charge of the Guatemalan operation, backed up there and in Miami by "Jimmy," "Clarence," "Adams...
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