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...dawn broke the next day, the guerrillas returned with a vengeance. Some 500 members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a branch of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), descended on Berlin. Raking the town with automatic-weapons fire and rocket-propelled grenades, they devastated the puny garrison, killing or wounding four policemen and capturing or driving away the rest. The guerrillas sacked and burned Berlin's pharmacies and dry-goods stores, robbed the only local bank of $160,000, and rocketed the town's postal and telex offices. Local residents were herded into...
...reaction of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran armed forces was slow and clumsy. The day after the guerrillas began their occupation, U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets appeared over Berlin and began to strafe and rocket the town. At least two bombs were dropped a few blocks from the central plaza. Floods of refugees started to stream from their homes carrying sacks of food, clothing and hammocks, as Red Cross ambulances, their sirens screaming, crept through the streets...
More than two full days after the guerrillas had captured Berlin, 1,000 Salvadoran army troops arrived to lift the siege. When relief columns neared the town, the guerrillas, true to form, melted into the nearby hills. As they retreated, they burned Berlin's coffee warehouses, the town's chief source of income...
...also paid a price for the Berlin episode. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Jay Thomas Stanley, a communications specialist, was wounded in the left leg by guerrilla ground fire while flying in a helicopter near the border of Usulután, about seven miles from Berlin. At first, U.S. officials maintained that Stanley was on a "training mission." Later, however, the U.S. embassy in the capital of San Salvador announced that Stanley's immediate superior had been relieved of duty for ordering the sergeant to act in violation of congressional strictures that forbid advisers to enter Salvadoran combat zones...
...Geoffrey Arthur Prime was serving with the British Royal Air Force in West Berlin when he offered his services to the KGB in 1968. Over much of the next 13 years, he worked as a Russian translator at Britain's top-secret electronic intelligence center in Cheltenham, and he managed to pass the Soviets sensitive information on British and American counterespionage efforts. After Prime was picked up last year for a sex offense involving a 14-year-old girl, his wife reported to police that she had uncovered spy equipment he had used...