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Round was taken off body of USSR soldier in Afghanistan

RHODESIA'S SOF INTERVIEWS "NO WIN" WAR 22 JOHN MILIUS 56 L,.H. "Mike" Williams N.E. MacDougald Rhodesian brass learns pol itics before war's Tinseltown maverick discusses heroes, politics, end. guns-and movie_s.

SEPTEM BER/1980 SAS DARES &WINS 26 VOL. 5, NO. 9 Doug Campbell When the talking stopped and the shooting started, the SAS moved in.

IN CUBAN WATERS 30 N.E. MacDougald SOF Staffer's eye-witness report of Cuban ex· odus. ·

AMERICAN WITH A MISSION 36 Tony Bliss, Jr. Arizonan fights Red Cross for medicine in Cam· bodia.

ASSIGNMENT Page 42 AFGHANISTAN 42 Galen L. Geer SOF scoops CIA in Afghanistan. Bulletin Board ...... 6 Combat Pistolcraft ...... 8 FLAK ...... 10 FLIGHT OF THE Editorial ...... · ...... 20 WHITE EAGLES 54 Classifieds ...... 91 Dana K. Drenkowski I American meres stymie Bolshevik advanc~ in Poland's 1919·20 war with Russia. Advertisers' Index ...... 94 BULL·ETIN BOARD by Jim Graves

Course. He took bronze medals in Marine helicopter pilots flying on the, MERGENCY SURGERY Center Fire Aggregate and National Iranian hostage rescue operation and E BOOK IN PRINT ... Match Course. informed them, "Gentlemen, if you Emergency War Surgery - NA TO Kemp has won over 20 medals and succeed; President Carter will be re: Handbook has been extensively revis­ trophies with the same gun in state or elected." · ed by the U.S. Air Force to incorporate national competition. Kemp, who That's one joke, or theory on why it newly developed techniques. The does his own reloading, prefers 4.5 failed, and another Carter joke mak­ book is available from the Govern­ grains of Bull's-eye with a 200-grain ing the rounds is: ment Printing Office, Washington, semi-wadcutter bullet for bull's-eye Recently, one night Jimmy Carter D.C. 20402. Published in February shooting. He says it gives him similar was having a hard time sleeping and 1979, the· book costs $8.25 and its recoil to hardball ammo, with superior he was visited by the ghost of Teddy stock numt:>er .is 008-000-00211-8. accuracy. '' Roosevelt. -K· EMPWINS No slouch with a rifle either, Kemp Teddy asked, "Mr. President, how . SEVEN MEDALS ... has a Master classification for High are things going?" Jimmy replied, · SOF Staffer Rocky Kemp recently Power rifle earned while shooting on "Teddy, they're going horribly." Ted­ earned seven medals shooting in Cal­ the U.S. Marine Corps' team in the dy asked, "What is wrong, Mr. Pre~­ ifornia's State Pistol Championships late 1950s. ident?" at Fort Ord. Shooting in the Expert tiis secret for shooting success? Jimmy replied, "Well, tirst thing, Class, Kemp won his medals using a "About one million shots in practice." the Iranians siezed the Embassy and Jim Hoag-modified .45 auto. Kemp UMOROR . are holding all our Embassy· person­ got a silver in the Grand Aggregate, a R TRUTH? .. . nel hostage." Teddy asked, "Did you gold in .45 Aggregate and silvers in Rumor is that the Commandant of .45 Ti'med, Rapid and National Match the Marine Corps called in all of the Continued on page 14

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The American Historical Foundation • 1316 West Main Street• Richmond,Va. 23220 (804) 353-1812 For Visa. Master Charge or American Express. please send account number. expiration date "s~i1')i'.1a ~~~~R;!~NE add t;u. SEPTEMBER/SO 9 main outpost was a city called Ba Chuc, which was surrounded by three of the Seven Virgin Mountains which were filled with NVA and VC. I can tell you Doyle's article was true to fact and I can clear up Chau Ut Le's mysterious death. Chau Le loved women. He was killed by a jealous husband in August 1971. Yours truly, Phillip L. Davison Nashville, Tennessee IETNAM VETS V WANTED . .. FLAK Sirs: I am presently gathering material on the Vietnam War which I am planning to de­ ILENT INVASION in each year. How can they live here and velop into a book. I am specifically in­ S AGREEMENT ... not pay taxes, and we have no way to terested in the 1968 campaigns of the Tet combat them? The answer is, we can't Offensive, the Khe Sanh "siege" and the Sirs: have them here and we need to change the U.S.S. Mayaguez. I would greatly ap­ I really enjoyed the article, "Silent In­ law now. preciate hearing from your readers, mili­ va·sion" (SOF, June '80) and agreed with Yours truly, tary or civilian, who are veterans of the its many points. First of all, I think the Brian Gillis above actions. Personal accounts and ex­ dangers of disease brought in by illegal Apopka, Florida periences of these battles would be invalu­ aliens pose a real threat to our health. It able. has taken years to get such diseases as TB ELTA AMBUSH Sincerely, and leprosy under control. The second D REVISITED ... Keith William Nolan point I would like to comment on is aliens Sirs: 220 Kingsville Court taking American jobs. I think Mac­ I was fascinated to read Chris Doyle's Webster Groves, MO 63119 Dougald had his head on straight when he article, "Delta Ambush" (SOF, June ILENT INVASION: said we need a new president for this '80), because in June 1971, I took over AN ALTERNATE VIEW . . . pressing problem. Thirdly, I want to ex­ MAT 18 (Mobile Advisory Team) which S Sirs: pound on the problem of millions. Here was designated a "night ambush" unit. Your articles on the "brown invasion" Chau Got was its KCS leader. We worked we are trying to balance the federal are disturbing and offensive. It seems budget, yet 2,700,000 illegals are coming in O'Lam, Tri Ton and Tinh Bien, but our Mexican illegals are being made into American scapegoats for current eco­ nomic problems. My mother brought me over here illegally when I was about seven years old, and after 20 years of hard menial labor and paying income taxes, all she has to show for it is a very inadequate monthly check. It's unusual for Mexican illegals to be on welfare, and therein lies the fallacy that Mexican illegals are a burden to this coun­ try. As a former "wetback," I can tell you that since illegals live in constant fear of apprehension, they dare not apply for any decent employment where proper IDs are required or background research is stan­ dard practice. Where then do they go? To the most menial, hardest and dirtiest minimum and below-minimum-wage-pay­ ing sweatshops that no ordinary American would consider, since he can make much more as a citizen eligible for various benefits. As for dangerous diseases, I don't know of any, and I've been living in a Mexican ghetto most of my life. It was crude to show a picture of a sick in­ dividual. As for drugs, come around Chicago's south and west sides. Only a small percent of the total amount of drugs entering this country actually come from Mexico. And lest we forget, most of what is now the southern United States was, not too long ago, northern Mexico. Sgt. A. Vargas 12th Special Forces Gp. (Abn.) USAR, Chicago, Illinois Continued on page 15

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SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 11 slamming the action shut on an empty "human wave" attack in Korea will bear COMBAT chamber. It is not serious unless it occurs me out in this. during the live-firing cycle. I trust this will clarify my statement as PISTOLCRAFT It may be corrected by a good pistol­ quoted, a~d I am sure the statement as smith (not common) and avoided in the clarified will give no offense to our tried future by easing the slide forward when and trustworthy friends in Free China - Continued from page 8 the piece is empty. repudiated though they may have been by The Bomar sight, properly recessed into the dysesthetic chicanery of the U.S. De­ the top of the slide, seems quite strong. I partment of State. H&K does indeed make a .45 cali­ have been using one for two years now A • ber version of their P9S pistol. It is with complete satisfaction. (Who needs a ' i well-made and soundly constructed, as are ventilated rib?) This month Ken Hackathorn evaluates most of their weapons. I am no fan of Since you are quoted by Mr. Marv the custom combat work of Nebraska trigger-cocking autos and I find the P9 Q •Wolf in an article in New West, 25 gunsmith Bill Laughridge and his Cylinder configuration somewhat clumsy in my Feb. '80, and since that quotation has sur­ & Slide, Inc., and finds it functionally reli­ hand, but we have had a few P9s here at prised and offended a number of people, I able and accurate. the school and they gave very reliable serv­ would like to ask: ice. Is the comment, "The only way you're INTEREST in combat pistol work is going to find out for sure is to line up 500 now at an all-time high, and I recently You really know how to put the I I . e left-wingers and the eggheads in Chinamen and shoot them," an accurate got the opportunity to test the work of theirQ place . Your comments and my own representation of what you said to Mr. one of the newer pistolsmiths offering experience have helped me form the opin­ Wolf? combat pistol modifications. Last year I ion that the .45 has no better. L.W.F. saw a couple of .45 Colt autos worked However, during my last two shooting Research & Publications Director over by the Cylinder & Slide, Inc., Fre­ excursions, the hammer on my Llama fell China Inst. of America, Inc. NYC mont, Neb., and contacted Bill Laugh­ to half-cock when I released the slide stop. Let me set your mind at rest. I do ridge of Cylinder & Slide, who sent me a Please tell me what the problem is . I A enot wish to impugn Mr. Wolf's ac­ full-house custom-modified Colt Govern­ would also like you to advise me on a rug­ curacy as a journalist, but his quotation ment Model pistol for evaluation. ged, adjustable sight. I have been con­ (as printed) is not exactly correct. I did Laughridge has been building custom sidering a Micro but am not sure how well not say ''five hundred Chinamen." I said combat-pistol packages for many of the it would work with a ventilated rib. "Five thousand Chicoms. " Midwest practical shooters and now much Z.G. Obviously, 500 is an inadequate num­ of his business comes from throughout Springfield, Ohio ber for valid statistical analysis. the United States. "Hammer follow" is fairly com­ Obvious also is the fact that the Red Cylinder & Slide used a 1960's vintage A • mon on pieces which have had trig­ Chinese are not at all averse to using their Colt Government Model .45 auto as the ger jobs done by journeyman gunsmiths. own people as material for ballistic basic gun that was sent to me for the test. It is aided and abetted by the practice of analysis. Anyone who_has seen a Chicom I personally feel these pre-Mark IV Series

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12 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBERl80 and detail-stripped it to check overall fit and finish. Everything was satisfactory DEPENDABLE and worked well. Finest Pistol & Rifle ., _ - A Colt Gold Cup hammer and sear set­ MAGAZINES . up were fitted to this pistol, giving a STEEL FABRICATED 3 \!.i -pound trigger pull that did not jar Mfg. in U .S .A . by D & E MAGAZINES off. This is due to the sear clutch unit, FOREIGN ORDERS Be sure to use U.S. currency and send enough utilized as part of the Gold Cup system. to cover for air freighl charges. Trigger-pull weight was much lighter than CALIBER DESCRIPTION PRICE 22 Astra Conatabk: Llama...... 9.9S I care for on a combat gun, but Laugh­ 22 Browning Belgium made...... 12.95 22 Brownin(t U.S. made 14.95 ridge explained that this trigger was done 22 Bcrctta fiis all 8 rds. 11.95 to the customer's specifications. He nor­ 22 Beretla fits all 10 rds. . . 11.95 22 Colt New or Old mod. spc:...... 11 .95 mally prefers and recommends a trigger ' 22 Hi Stand, Victor. Citation. Supcrmatic. Trophy . 13.95 22 Hi StandarHD. HA. D. A. HE. GE. GD.... 14.95 puli of 4 to 4Yi pounds for combat work. 22 Llama Fit. new mods_. ( 14 rds. 13.95) Reg. Size.. 9.95 22 Smith & Wesson mod 41 (22 stw mod. 61 9.95l.. 14.95 With an ammo can full of .45 practice 22 Star FN. FR. FRS. Walter PP & PPK/ S. 11.95 loads, we headed for the range to give the 25 Army·Galesi mod. 9, 8. 95. Galc:si late mod 14.95 25 Bauer. Buffalo, Bcrnardclli. 9.95 pistol a workout. My standard IPSC prac­ 25 Berctta Jct Fire (mfg. 1934-1941 ) 7 rds..... 14.95 25 Bc:rc:Ha M950 8 rds. 14.95 tjce load consists of a 200-grain RCBS 25 Browni niz...... 14.95 82047 Keith bullet on top of 5.8 grains of 25 Titan E278. Sterling 300. 9.95 25 Colt Jr. late mod. (15 rds. 16.95) Reg. size. 14.95 Winchester 231 ball powder. All who shot 32 Bcrc:tta made 1934 to 38, Bcrc:tta mod. 100. 14.95 32 Browning pre war 7 or 8 rounds. Specify . 14.95 the Cylinder & Slide shop .45 were pleased 32 Colt, Ceska, Bernardelli, Remington . . . . 14.95 with fhe piece's accuracy, and most com­ 32 Mauser HSc ...... 18.95 Cylinder & Slide's combat .45 and 32 Mauser A-0 7 rds.. 18.95 25-meter group shot by author using mented on the light trigger pull and stated 32 SavaRe 10 rds...... 18.95 32 O nigics, Star old military 7.65 . 12.95 Matre Match commercial reload their preference for a slightly heavier one. 32 Walter 7.65 PPK (I 5 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size . . 12.95 hardball ammo. Note new I fired the pistol over a number of stan­ 32 Walter PPK/ S ( 15 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size . 12.95 W1 stock many more clips not listed in this ad. experimental Rogers front-break dard drills and it never missed a lick or 380 Astra Constable (15 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size 12.95 holster. 380 Beretta 1934 to 1938 ...... 14.95 malfunctioned once. Since it had a heavy­ 380 Beretta 70's ( 15 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size 14.95 duty recoil spring installed, we· fired 380 Browning mfg. 1971 . Bernardelli any mod. . 14.95 380 Back·up 9mm Kurz. Astra 3000 . . . . 10.95 nothing that did not come close to hard­ 380 LL.ama fit all new (Nod. 15 rds. 16.50) Rea. Size 10.95 380 Mab. mod. 0. Mauser HSc Orgies. Reming1on . 18.95 70-made Colt pistols are the ultimate for ball-equivalent loads. I personally favor 380 Star F l Fisl Mod. (\5 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size . 10.95 tuning and accuracy work. nothing heavier than a 18 Yi -pound recoil ]80 Star Fl Snd. Mod. ( 15 rds. 16.00) Re£. Size. 10.95 380 Star Super Model SM...... 10.95 The test pistol had been fitted with a spring in a full-size Government Model 380 S1erling Mod. 400 ( 15 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size . 10.95 380 Walter PP & PPK/ S ( 15 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size. 12.95 combat-accuracy job, and the slide fit was pistol. 380 Wa\ter .PPK (15 rds. 16.50) Reg. Size . 12.95 solid, yet not so tight as to cause function When I used match-grade .45 ball am­ 9mm Browning H.P. (25 rds. 27.50) Reg. Size . . . . 18.95 9mm Bereua Mod. 95 1 (14 rds. 18.95) Reg. Size . 14.95 problems. Also included with the ac­ mo, the Cylinder & Slide shop pistol shot 9mm Beretta M92 ( 15 rds. 18.95) 25 rds. .. 27.95 9mm Mab PA 15 (25 rds. 27.50) Reg. Si1.e. 1g'_95 curacy package was a long six-inch Mag­ impressive groups. Without checking the 9mm Smith & Wesson Mod. 39 ( 14 rds. 17.95) Reg. Size 12.95 na-ported custom barrel. This barrel was sights, I slipped into a rollover prone posi­ 9mm Smith & Wesson Mod. 59 (25 rds. 27. 50) Reg. Si1.e 18.95 9mm Star Model A. Star Mod. B. Star BS Re~. Size. 14.95 mated to a Micro bushing, and the feed tion at 60 meters and proceeded to dump 9mm Starlight BKM & BKS ( 14 rds. 17.95) Re~ Size . 14.95 9mm Walter P38 & P38K ( 14 rds. 17.95) Reg. Size. . . 14.95 ramp and barrel throat were readjusted two magazines of .45 ball ammo into a 9mm Radom P35 (14 rds. 17.95) Reg. Size. 14.95 and polished to feed all types of ammo. nice group centered slightly to the right of 9mm Mauser Parabellum ( 10 rds. 14.95) Reg. Size . 13.95 30 Tokarev Mauser 7.63 and 7.65 . 17.95 Standard modifications such as a lowered the silhouette target. 38 Colt National Maleh (Mid Range)...... 17.95 38 Colt Rimless smokeless 7 or 8 Rounds 14.95 ejection port, beveled magazine well and Bill Laughridge can make a .45 shoot! 38 Colt Super Fit all (20 rds. 22.9.5) Reg. Size.. 12.95 long trigger with stop were included. A If this pistol represents his work, he 38 Llama fits all new models. Star A.S. 12.95 45 Coll fits all mod. 25 rds. 26.95 20 rds. 18.95 Smith & Wesson K-series white outline should be a good man to work over your 15 rds. 17.95 Reg. Size 12.95 rear sight and red insert front-ramp sight 45 Detonics( l5 rds. 18.95) Reg. Size. 12.95 pistol. His work's cosmetic quality is not 45 Llama fit s all new mod. (25 rds. 26.95) Reg. Size 12.95 had been installed on the slide. as good as many other pistolsmiths, but 45 S iar Mod. P.S. (25 rds. 26.95) Reg. Size.. 12.95 45 Star Mod. P.O. (15 rds. 17.95) Reg. Size . . . . . 12.95 The rear sight was installed in the pro­ he Understands the main thing about a 45 Browning DI A .... ,.,,,.,. . 14.95 tected position, allowing the base of the combat pistol - functional reliability and W~ also lravt Btlt Holst~rs to prottct your clips from tlrt tlt mtnls K-sight to be milled into the original rear­ accuracy. SURVIVAL RIFLE CLIPS 22 AR·7 Explorer ( 15 rds.) . 19.95 sight dovetail. This notch had been milled or the owner of the P-35 Browning 22 Marlin Models 995. 989 M2 ( 15 rds.).. 14.95 22 Glcnfild Model 701 15 rds.I ...... 14.95 square, leaving a lot of space around the F9xl9 parabellum pistol, Laughridge 22 Glenf'ild Model 70 ( 15 rds.) 22.95 rear sight itself. While totally functional, offers a complete line of custom combat 22 Harrington & Richardson ( 15 rds.) Magnum . . . . 22.95 SPORTING RIFLE CLIPS it is not as pleasing to the eye as mo~t modifications, and his popularity with the 223 Ruger mini 14 (20 rds.) . . 14.95 other smiths' installations. I complained Browning P-35 crowd is testimony to his 223 Ruger Mini 14 (30 rd s.) . 16.95 303 British Lee Enfield ( 10 rds.) 16.95 to Laughridge about the sharp front edge work. If one prefers the P-35 for practical 243 Winchester 88 or 100 (8 rds.)... 22.95 308 Winchester 88 or 100 (8 rds.).. 22.95 of the front sight. He tells me that all his shooting, Cylinder & Slide, Inc. 's price list 308 Remington 740. 742. 760 (g rds.) 22.95 guns now have this front edge slightly and work sheet will be of interest. One big 243 Remington 740. 742. 760 (g rds.).. 22.95 270 Remington 740. 742. 760 (8 rds.) 22.95 rounded to prevent holster snag. advantage of the smaller custom pistol­ 2go Remington 740. 742. 760. (8 rds. ) ...... 22.95 6mm Remington 740. 742, 760 (10 rds. 25.95) 12 rds. 28.95 The customer who owned the pistol that siniths is the good delivery on their pistol 30/ 06 Remington 740. 742. 760 (10 rds. 25.95) 12 rds. 28.95 I tested had also ordered an ambidextrous work. Unlike many big West Coast shops, NO CHARGE FOR MAILING & HANDLING safety, extended slide stop, and extended the customer gets his pistol back in three TO MAKE YOUR ORDER Please prinl or lype clearly. Compute your own lax on your order. Orders magazine catch. The slide stop was to four months. will be filled within 3 day~ in·planl with money order or certified checks. custom-made by Laughridge, but he now Drop Bill Laughridge of Cylinder and Allow 3 weeks with personal check. 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Jimmy said, "No, Teddy, we boycotted tl1e • Red~ces felt trigger pull •Also fits Colt autos • ld;al shape for speed and comfort Olympics." · • Ideal for combat and •Easy installation Teddy said, ."Well, my God, Mr. target shooters (drill & tap I hole) $19.95 each President, I suppose the next thing •Eliminates mag. safety installation available $10. $19.95 each you'll t~ll me is that you gave away $ 24.95 each CYl/NDElt&ll.IDE SHOP INC. the Panama Canal." P.O. BOK 9J1 . complete with detailed instructions FREMONT; NE. 6102S PH. 4112 121·4211 CHANGE OF please add $1.00 postage per order e· Dealers please Inquire A. HEART ... 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SEPTEMBER/80 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 17 lems - is $4. Even harder to find and that holds Americans hostage or per­ BULLETIN relatively more expensive are eggs, mits hostage taking. BOARD milk, cooking oil and baby milk pro­ Regents President Bill Humphries . . ducts. said: "It's time for this board and Continued from page 14 Cigarettes are in short supply - other policy-makers to make diffi­ with American brands selling for $2 a cult decisions. We are questioning HORTAGES NOT HOSTAGES pack - as are heating oil, cosmetics, whether we are supporting someone S WORRY IRANIANS .. . soaps, shampoo and automobile who is an avowed enemy of our coun­ Iranians are a lot less worried about parts. try and, in turn, an enemy of this in­ the situation between America and SOF wishes Iranians more of the stitution and us." their government than they are about same. It is believed that the University of increasing prices and shortages. South Alabama is the only other uni­ Iran stopped imports of meat from O IRANIANS versity considering a similar move but New Zealand and other countries and N NEED APPLY .. . perhaps more of them should. as a result beef now sells for $5 a The Board of Regents at New Mex­ pound. Frozen mutton is $2.50 a ico State University voted unanimous­ NST ANT JUSTICE pound but freshly slaughtered lamb ly in April to forbid admission to I IN ZIMBABWE . .. - the preference of orthodox Mos- students from Iran or any other nation "Instant justice" in Zimbabwe is beginning to take a rather barbaric turn. In a "trial" staged by the local branch of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African. National Union-Patriotic Front, a women found guilty of being a witch was beaten to death. In another rural area two former members of the auxiliary force loyal to Mugabe rival Abel Muzorewa were sentenced to a beating by village elders for having had sexual relation­ ships with local women. Dissidents of Mugabe's guerrilla army overruled that and had the men shot. When that failed to kill them they were buried alive. HE MARINES AND T THE M16 . .. "With more than the usual fervor, nations are beating their plowshares into swords. Oil has become a wea­ pon of siege, with the U.S. in the roie of crumbling fortress. Lat er-day Mahdis rail against the infidels of the technological West; diplomats are held hostage with a heady, reckless disdain for America's legendary might. And as television interviewers push their microphones into the faces of frustrated citizens in the street, asking what ought to be done to reestablish that might, the answer often comes back: 'Send in the Ma­ rines.'" Are the Marines ready to go in? That's the question to which Owen Edwards addressed himself in an arti­ cle entitled "Marines In Doubt: Are We Ready For A Crisis?" in the 19 February Saturday Review. Edwards' article, quoted above, is a perceptive and finely crafted one. We recommend that SOF readers who have not seen it look it up. In his article he deals wi th two general areas: personnel and tech­ nology. Edwards concludes that Marine Corps' personnel are considerably

Continued on page 90 18 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/80 The Colonel Arthur D. Simons Scholarship Fund

The Iranian rescue team members are establishing a college scholarship fund for the children of their comrades who were killed attempting to free 53 fellow Americans April 24 and 25.

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L.H. "Mike" Williams In the first installment of his article on the war without victory in Rhodesia ("Do Not - Repeat - Do Not Fire!" SOF, August, '80), Maj. Williams was given orders not to fire at a group of Frelimo and terr troops. In his conclu­ sion, he exposes the politics behind the no-win attitude. OME three hours' drive from Bula­ Swayo on the Victoria Falls road is the largest Tribal Trust Land in Rhodesia. Scene of Alan Wilson's patrol massacre on the Shangani River where thousands of Matabele warriors finally overran and slaughtered a mounted column of Rhode­ sian troopers in 1895, Lupane still quartered Matabeles - only this time they were carrying AK-47s instead of assegais, and wore East German camouflage rather than loin cloths. During the last weeks of the Grey's Scouts' operations in the area, something happened that was the forerunner of what was to come to Rhodesia in the 1980s . Our command post was located in a ramshackle old house, several hundred meters from the Bulawayo-Vic Falls road; the dirt air strip, rail junction, " cop shop" and district commissioner's head­ quarters were also nearby. Although it was difficult to set out final protective lines of fire and mortar concentrations due to other buildings in the area, I fe lt

R&R in Salisbury - Maj. E.H. "Mike" Williams (right) relaxes with driver Cpl. Ed Wandell at Crippled Eagles Club in 1977. Wandell, a former Cl.S. Marin.e, served in Vietnam and was in Grey's Scouts throughout his Rhodesian tour. Crippled Eagles was Robin Moore's response to official U.S. Rhodesian stance (see SOF,.September '78). 22 SOLDlllR OF FORTUNE SEPTEM BER/BO that it made more tactical sense than hav­ ing to run supply vehicles up a single dirt road to the north, where the terrs would scatter TM-46 mines like confetti. Early one morning I was drinking hot tea (what else?) and reading sit-reps from the preceding 24 hours. A knock on the door caused me to look up. Sergeant Blake, an Australian who'd been with the Grey's for three years, stood uneasily in the doorway. "What's on your mind, sergeant?" I asked, returning his salute. ' Glancing around the room at the sit­ map pinned on the wall and the radio operator boredly leafing through the pages of a year-old magazine, Blake chew­ ed the tips of a scraggly moustache and cleared his throat. I was curious because he rarely had anything to say to anyone. Skinny, tow-headed, given to wearing a battered bush hat, he was solid, un­ imaginative and laconic whether in a con­ tact or riding mile after mile under a brutal sun. "Well . . . ah, sir . . . some of the When not acting in military capacity, pro-Western Rhodesian government. blokes asked me if you would speak to Williams sometimes took on civilian He is seen here with former Premier them and ... kind of clear up a few things responsibilities calling for meetings Bishop Abel Muzorewa. . . . you know?" He shifted a boot, with top-ranking officials of former the heel dragging on the dirty, wooden floor. I told him, "No, I don't know," and to didn't need a handful of terrs zapping the Moyo, the corporal commanding the get to the point. commander's aircraft as he was trying to detail, grinned broadly as I stepped down "Sir, haven't you heard about the telly land. Minutes before the arrival, troopers from my vehicle. He had gone with us on broadcast last night?" His face had a would sweep the surrounding terrain, several ops and one attack against a terr disbelieving look. I shook my head. cross-graining for tracks and making sure base camp. He was to die three months TV statements there were no hostiles about. A C-47 had ' later, murdered by terrs who came to his been lost in Mapai on take-off roll when kraal early one morning and riddled him need explaining. three terrs had hit it with AK and RPG-7 with AK fire. . According to the bush telegraph and fire; the rocket had exploded in the cock­ "Ah, good morning, major!" The DC on:e of the cook boys, General Peter pit and wasted the pilot. The aircraft was beamed, smoothed back a handful of er­ Walls, combined operations commander, totaled. No airstrip security had been evi­ rant cowlicks and proceeded to exchange had appeared on a special RBC-TV dent at that location and I sure as hell pleasantries with me that had no relation­ broadcast the night before, and made a wasn't going to make the same mistake ship to anything sane. statement to the effect that there could be here. My jeep was in back of the CP and I Suddenly he stiffened, turned and no military victory - only a political set­ waved to Blake to come along as "shot­ pointed dramatically to the northeast: tlement. To add to the impact of those gun" on the ride to the airstrip. "Look there!" he shouted in tones that words, the prime minister had said the would have done justice to Charlton Hes­ same thing on a similar broadcast the The DC wasn't really a problem, al­ ton's "Moses." preceding night. though. he was determined to control I looked. Instead of a flaming bush and No wonder Blake and the rest of the everything that went on within his area - the sepulchral tones of God's voice, I saw troops were anxious for a "talk" to clear· including Grey's Scouts' operations. a black dot in the sky that slowly ap­ up things. For that matter, so was I. We'd reached something of an armed proached, growing larger and becoming a A voice booming over the radio loud­ truce; I would furnish whatever troops I Cessna 172. speaker caused the operator to put down could spare to provide security for his hi ~ magazine. It was the pilot of an in­ weekly forays into the bush to conduct Aerial Ecstasy bound aircraft carrying the brigade com­ cattle sales. In return, he would let me mander and requesting someone to meet have some of his district assistants who them at the airstrip on arrival; their ETA were Matabeles and top-notch trackers. "Marvelous! Bloody marvelous!" was in IO minutes. Before we could Unlike a lot of Africans, the DAs weren't crowed the DC. "Roger" his transmission, another voice afraid of the horses and were learning to I restrained the impulse to explain to - that of the local district commissioner ride in a dogged, hilarious fashion, proud­ him that Wilbur and Orville had managed - interrupted. With a flourish, he as- ly stating that only a "woman would be to work out that contraption at the bicycle sured the pilot that indeed there would be afraid of a four-legged thing." shop near Kitty Hawk a few years back. a vehicle and party from the DC's office As I'd expected, the DC's grey Land­ Why spoil his fun? Buzzing the strip, the awaiting their arrival. rover was parked primly by the end of the Cessna pulled up sharply at the far end, "Here we go again,'' I thought, picking airstrip as we rattled up. With him were and racked around for a short downwind up my FN and webbing. his personal bodyguard of five DAs wear­ and base leg. "Blake, we'll get to this later. In the ing dusty khaki uniforms and carrying Behind us, there were howls, yells and meantime, get on the blower to that in­ G-3 H&Ks that were not dusty - their giggles from Africans lined up along the coming patrol and have them sweep the barrels wiped clean after the ride from the bushline avidly watching the flying airstrip before the colonel gets here." I DC's HQ. machine. One of the miracles of Africa SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 23 was the speed with which the locals He paused, wiped his nose with the materialized from the bush at the sound back of a dirty hand and continued, ABOUT THE AUTHO of an aircraft; an area totally void of "Well, sah, we'd like to know what's go­ Maj. Lewis H. "Mike" Williarris is human life became a meeting place of ing on. If we can't win the war what are one of SOF's military affairs editbrs. nannies, picannins, dogs, M'dalas - the we supposed to be doing here in the bush His military career started in the ~ .S . old men grinning like children - the ran­ . . . with due respect, sah ! " Army in 1942, took him to Kore} in dom goat and strutting roosters, all Realizing he was sk.irting highly dan­ the '50s, to the Congo in the '60s, nd gathered to exchange opinions on the gerous ground, the sergeant stopped. to Rhodesia and Central Americ in various aspects of the white man's inven­ tion. Moyo waved the crowd back, sternly warning them from further encroachment on the runway. With a dusty thud, the Cessna bounced twice down the pebble-strewn strip, leav­ ing a choking cloud of yellow dust behind. Turning around, the pilot taxied back to a point opposite our vehicles and shut down. The cabin door opened and the bri­ gade commander crawled down, reaching behind him for his cap. The DC trotted out, extending his hand and welcoming one and all to Lupane. I waited until the ceremony was over and, walking over, . reported to the colonel. " Are you having any problems here, Mike?" he asked. "None of a tactical nature, but there's something far more serious in the area of troop morale." I lowered my voice so neither Blake nor the others could hear. " Evidently there's been quite a reaction as a result of the prime minister's TV ap­ pearance - not to mention the general's statement about the 'no win' war." We crawled into my jeep and started back to the CP. "Not to worry."

" Not to worry . . . . I'll talk to them when we get to the HQ." With that, it was apparent that the topic was closed. I hoped so, but knew better. Braking to a stop behind the CP, noticed a fairly large group of NCOs and troopers standing near the tent that hous­ ed the farrier's shop. They watched in­ tently as the brigade commander stepped down, stretching and surveying the area. " Sir, if it's all right with you, now would be a good time to speak with the troops - they're waiting at the tent there." " Very well. Let's get on with it." He straightened his cap, squared his shoul­ ders and marched over to the group. I followed, remaining to the side and halting near a rough wooden bench used by the saddler. '"SHUN!" The group came to atten­ tion and the sergeant commanding the detail gave a parade-ground salute and reported. The silence seemed much longer than it really was . " Um . . . . Yes. The major tells me you chaps have a question?" The colonel looked at the group steadily, clasping his hands behind a tailored blouse and gently rocking back and forth on his heels . The sergeant glanced at me, then spoke. "Sah, we heard about the PM's speech and General Walls' as well." 24 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE "Well, you chaps should know that the the '70s. He resigned as tactical com­ April '80, and "Riding & Fighting with PM and General Walls have to say those manding officer of I Squadron, Grey's Grey's Scouts," SOF, Nov. '78, Jan. type of things for the press .... Cheers, Scouts, Rhodesia's famed mounted in­ '79, Feb. '79 and "Remember The then, where's the tea?" With a smile, he fantry, for the reasons evident in the Alamo," SOF, July '80.) turned and cast a "carry on" over his experiences described above. (For.pre­ shoulder. End of discussion. vious articles by Maj. Mike, s·ee "El -S. Nielsen After a mercifully short 35 minutes, we Salvador: The Next Domino," SOF, returned to the airstrip. "Keep up the good work, Mike - let me know if you have any problems I can help you with." The colonel climbed down from the jeep and walked to the Cessna. I saluted, the DC pumped his hand, the Africans giggled and all was the same. We waited until the 172 took off and was well away before starting back to the CP - and the troops. "All right, let's get this going .... What's the problem?" I was sitting on the wooden bench near the farrier's tent. Around me were gathered the same group to whom the colonel had spoken earlier. Sgt. Blake stood up and spoke, "Well, sir, it just seems to me that with the speeches and all, I don't know what we're doing out here in the bush ... . We're get­ ting our arses shot off for nothin' - if we can't win the war, then wot?" There was a murmur of agreement from the rest of the group. "We follow orders."

"Sergeant, I'm not a politician - nor for that matter are any of us here. Our job is to follow orders and keep our mouths shut .... DISMISS!" I got up and returned the salutes, know­ ing full well that the answers given by the brigade commander and myself would in no way satisfy the minds of these troops. Leading troops in combat is a skill that re­ quires many things; some tangible - others intangible. Beyond the proper equipment, weapons and supplies there is one essential without which there can be no success.

Rhodesia, was overwhelmed by the now faces Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanza­ The will to win. Carter administration, which slavishly nia and Botswana. SOF readers, far bowed to militant black Marxists in the better informed than the Carterian No troops anywhere are going to fight U.S., headed by Andrew Young and hordes of wimps, can now look for­ if they're told they not only aren't going the Black Caucus in Congress, and the ward to an increase in SW APO attacks to be allowed to win, but that winning is ever-treacherous British, seething with against South Africa from terrorist impossible. revenge against Smith1s courageous forces in Zim_babwe which will be sent As I walked back to the ops room, I 1965 Unilateral Declaration of In­ to Zambia and Angola to bolster realized that the future of these troops dependence. _ others presently operating in those and the Rhodesia we knew was sealed. This Is no apology for Ian Smith - areas. Anti-climatically during the following he needs none. While I respect him The fact that the same political at~ weeks, a steady series of bromides were tremendously and was honored to titudes that gave away Vietnam are poured out from Salisbury: "There would serve his government as a Grey's responsible for the tragedy in Rho­ be no surrender . . . . There would never Scouts major, I wish to holy hell he desia, in the clutches of a rabble-in­ be terrorists allowed into the regular army could have turned loose the Rhodesian arms from Mozambique and Zambia, . . .. Neither Mugabe nor Nkomo would army and let us go. We would have should come as no surprise to anyone ever be allowed back into the country." been eating prawns in Beira in 24 who realizes that the Soviet Union will A look at Rhodesia today tells the hours. not be stopped in its drive to seize story. With Rhodesia now Marxist, (any­ Africa. Copyright © 1980 by L.H Williams, Jr. one who can't see this is on the same With four more years of Carter in All rights reserved intellectual level as Jimmy Carter), ttie the offing, I would recommend basic Soviets have a solid li"ne across this part Russian classes to more activist of the African continent. ~outh Africa readers.

SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 25 SAS DARES & WINS A Raid That Worked

by Doug Campbell

RITAIN'S elite Special Air Service The siege at Princes Gate in London's time that things would inevitably go BRe~iment was called in to the Princes "embassy belt" lasted six days, and wrong. Improvisation was essential. Gate siege in London when the talking although the SAS took no active part until Twelve men were selected to form three stopped and the shooting started. Eleven the last 11 minutes, it had been put on teams, in theory acting in support of the minute~ later five of the six gunmen were standby hours after the hostages weie. first Metropolitan Police Special Branch. dead and 19 hostages were freed. bundled inside the embassy and the doors Two teams at the back of the embassy Perhaps the most remar~able thing bolted. had the most daunting task. They secured about Britain's elite Special Air Service Immediately, the team of 20 men mov­ ropes round the embassy chimneys and Regiment's lightning attack on the Iranian ed into a nearby barracks where models rapelled from roof to the ground-floor Embas~y in London and the freeing of 19 were constructed, equipment modified garden terrace and the first-floor balcony. hostages is that it was conducted in the and briefings held·. While they were They were equipped with specially-made full glare of the world's press. waiting for the green light, the troopers oblong frames, four feet by two feet, Normally the SAS, the Regular Army's selected another Georgian building, sim­ carefully packed with plastic explosive, to own "hit squad," operates quietly . and ilar to the imposing terrace in Princes blow in the embassy's armor-plated win­ shuns publicity. Its members are never Gate, and practiced storming it. Most of dows. They also had stun grenades to named and rarely pick up medals. Even their training was carried out in the belief throw in just before going in themselves. when they are killed, the British Ministry that it wbuld be a night operation, but The plan was that at exactly the same of Defense never admits that they are that was not to be. moment, the third team was to make a SAS. Every trooper in the regiment comes frontal assault. The first pair in that team from some other unit so it is an easy mat­ "Who Dares Wins" had another "frame charge" to fix on the ter to announce the death of a member of ground floor window, with only a 10- the Parachute Regiment or Welsh Guards. The SAS' motto is "Who Dares Wins," second fuse. To create maximum surprise That way, the SAS can continue operating and this was certainly true of their storm­ and impact, the charges at front and rear and nine times out of 10 no one even ing of the embassy. The plan was bold, were to detonate simultaneously. The 12 krn)ws they are there. but it was recognized well before start- troopers would then burst in and run 26 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/SO upstairs to the hostages held in two sec­ ond-floor rooms. Male hostages were at the front of the building, overlooking Hyde Park, while the women were at the

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/ _'_ ' _ '_ ' / ' I I r I I I L "Dart holes across the body." EighlSAS:enmove i nl;-~ posilion·lromnext-door . ~ ~ The SAS has always matched its ' ~ llats. Climbingropesa1ready ·" · ~ ~._,.,,,..,. - anchored since Day One ~ weapons to the job at hand and this mis­ \ sion was no exception. The 12 carried 011ices West German Heckler and Koch subma­ chine guns, fondly known as Kocklers, and trusty Browning 9mm auto pistols. Room Nineleen Their mission was to neutralize the ter­ Oltices (Hostages held here earlier) !-----....._ rorists at the first opportunity. Heckler and Koch's submachine gun MALE HOSTAGES SAS men shoot gunmen FEMALE HOSTAGES fires .223 rifle ammunition. This is borne ,... r.nc Room Ten 13 14 _:.. , 1 2 \ !f·.""'->V:\j\ wY:t" < '°'f'j• ;.\,. 'n'•t-'J suHosrvivinglages andgunman one ·.'(« .. ·.. ~ .<· /· ..• out by eye witnesses who saw the bodies 1 1 1 • 1 FOUR SAS men ~\' ,,...ir, u... c bundled down to ••· · of the dead terrorists and described the wait In !lats ·) Gunmen start to garden Room Nine wounds as a "line of dart holes across the ": shoothostages,then . --- · appear to surrender 12 G~:~~~ ~~~osu~~ s:i~d~!n - body." . ~:~:r~~!r~~~a~~~~~a:. ( Charge d'Affaires' office Grabbed by PC lock. ·l i----Am_b_as_sa-do-r's- ol-fic-e -1l-,-"":;·.. · The gun features a delayed blowback throw In concussion \ H I t I t ·ndow 6Shot by SAS ma~n : ~ operation with a roller lock. It is a grenades arr s runs o ronw1 ~ , 4 8 7 ~ . - ~ - ...,~ ~ .' Second SAS pair drop selective-fire weapon, single or burst fire ..___ . · to balcony , hack .- ,·· / throughwindow, toss possible, fed from a 40-round box . jt-Secretary's office - - \ ----L-/ In concussion grenades Hams escapes 11 Service stairs magazine. The troopers chose not to use on lo balcony 10 l CSgasgrenades l the stocks, which gave the weapon an 9 fired in SAS men _ _ ·I Libra1y . ~ overall length of 22 inches. It has a cyclic I Charge upstairs f rate of fire of 600 RPM. 11 _".-r:.' ~.ri... ~ ~ I In the end, only one hostage died - • Fron< do~r Reception ( « One ol lirst SAS palr. apart from the one whose execution descending to terrace with 'lrame·charge,' sparked off the raid, which is certainly accidentally breaks SAS men co mb ~ window more than the planning group dared hope house.shooting · lock off 1 BASEMENT for. strongroom 15 At 1920 on that fateful Sunday evening, Basement well the eight men in the rear assault team emerged from an adjoining skylight and crept stealthily over the embassy's sloping roof. With their ropes secured among the chimneys, they prepared to rapell down. Glass Shatters

Even mountaineers find this a tricky operation. Ropes get twisted. The friction device that slows the descent gets jammed. Problems are innumerable. At 1926, the first pair stepped over the gutter and began their descent. At once disaster struck. A flailing boot crashed through an upper-story window but, sur­ prisingly, although one terrorist did in­ deed hear the glass shattering, no one bothered to investigate. Afterwards, it was discovered that a hostage had reas­ sured the terrorist by saying that the British would not dare try anything until after dark.

ABOVE LEFT: Off rappel! SAS commandos, carrying H&K SMGs, reach Iranian Embassy balcony in first stage of successful raid. Photo: Press Association

RIGHT: Steel-helmeted security services' trooper stands near Iranian Embassy at 16 Princes Gate. Shotgun wasn't needed as SAS subdued terrorists. Photo: Press Association

SEPTEMBER/BO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 27 The first pair reached the ground and the second - sliding down the same ropes - landed on the balcony. Through radio ear-pieces concealed inside their Balaclava SCOPE MOUNT helmets, they were told to go ahead with­ out waiting for the front team. FOR H&K But there was another snag. One of the third pair to descend at the back became hopelessly entangled in his rope and dan­ gled helplessly. If they detonated the MODELS 91 & 93 frame charges he would be killed or maim­ ed in the blast. Instead they simply hacked through the windows with the ground­ floor pair tossing in a stun grenade that burst in the central stairwell. At least four of the six gunmen were on the second floor, guarding the hostages. But their leader, Oan, was on the first FEATURES floor with a diplomatic guard, British Police Constable Trevor Lock, and BBC • STEEL CONSTRUCTION sound man Sim Harris. As the soldiers e NO PLASTICS moved in, Oan ran to the landing to watch e COMPATIBLE WITH WEAVER the rear window. When the lead trooper appeared he raised his machine pistol. DETACHABLE ONE INCH RINGS Then Poiice Constable Lock, married e NO DRILLING OR TAPPING with two children, who had been carrying his service revolver in a concealed • PRICE $75.00 shoulder holster throughout the siege, plus $1.50 shipping & insurance took a hand. He brought down the beard­ ed Oan with a hefty rugby tackle, and ROBERT MEDARIS, Dept. SFl seconds later, an SAS man jumped the 10060 PALOMINO AVE. pair of them and shot the terrorist RIVERSIDE. CALIF. 92509 through the head. TELEPHONE NO. (714) 685-5666 "Take Cover!"

Harris dashed into the front room, unaware, of course, that the third SAS team was on the point of blowing in the front window. The room was in darkness, so Harris threw open the curtains to be -confronted by a black-clad trooper who gestured to him to take cover. Moments later the third charge exploded and the team slipped in through the pall of smoke. There were now eight SAS men inside the building. One team was still outside getting the stranded rapeller off the wall of the building as he was seriously threat­ ened by a raging fire started by the explo­ sions. Meanwhile, hostages on the second floor were getting more and more anx­ ious. They heard the noises from below and could see that the terrorists were get­ ting more and more worked up. In the telex room at the front of the se­ cond floor, 15 male hostages were guard­ ed by one terrorist armed with a machine pistol. But as the sounds of battle rose, another two terrorists rushed in. "I sat facing the door," Dr. Gholam Ali Afrouz, the embassy's Charged' Af­ faires said. "One gunman was watching me and the other two were moving about. "I wasn't 100 percent aware of what was going on because I had just lost my best friend - Abbas Lavasani. A gunman pointed at me and fired. My face was bleeding, so I laid down and held a cloth over my face. Then I was shot in the legs." 28 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/SO Iranian doorman Abbas Fallahi claims that a 50-pence piece saved his li fe: "It was in my jacket pocket and it diverted a STALINGRAD·WAKE ISLANO·DUNKIRK·LEYTE GULF bullet." Suddenly the gunmen appeared to lose BUNA·MOSCOW·AACHEN·CORREGIDOR heart. They threw their guns out of the window and the rounds on the floor. Then RELIVE AllJHE-:.: .BLAZING ACTION they shouted, ~'Tasleem! Tasleem," Farsi for "We surrender." OF.WORLD lR II WITH SAS men burst through. PLAYBOY ' ~ W e·

At this poin t, the troopers burst in , combat- fash ion. The door flew open and black-clad SAS men - still wearing gas masks - dived through. "Where are the terrorists? Where are the terrorists?" they shouted. For a mo­ ment the hostages could not answer. Eventually one hostage, Dr. Ezzati, the press counselor, raised a shaky hand and pointed two of them out, cowering behind a large desk. Immediately, two SAS men moved around and shot the two where they sat. The terrs' bodies lay slumped against the wall. Because of concern over who was ter­ Never before has such a complete, riveting and rorist and who was hostage - and the authoritative series been made available to the very real fear that the building was still American public in paperback. It's all here: the wired to a bomb - everyone the SAS saw leaders, the strategies, the attacks and counter­ was securely trussed, and escorted from attacks, the bloody retreats and suicide squads, the premises. Only after the terrorists were the atrocities and unnerving heroics. Packed with positively identified , were the surgical­ authentic detail, many of these books have been tape bindi ngs cut away. selections of the Military Book Club and contain The British police and Home Office, pages of special action photos. Relive it all just aS' it the police's controlling body, have always was-the great turning points of World War II all in believed in a go-slow approach to terror­ one extraordinary series. Order your copies today ism. This has been vindicated in other ac­ tions when the persistence of the men out­ by fi lli ng in the coupon below or ask for them side gradually wore down the resolution wherever paperbacks are sold. of those inside. r------.-- At the Spaghetti House siege, four PLAYBOY PAPERBACKS 1 SF black robbers were trapped in the cellar of Book Mailing Service 1 P.O. Box 690 a London eating house with hostages and I Rockville Centre, N.Y. 11571 eventually talked out after several days in their prison. The same thing happened I Name ______when an IRA gang was cornered in a ,, ,I Address ______house with an elderly couple in Balcome Street. Only then it was merely the threat I ii City of SAS action that made them surrender. / .· State ______Z1p ______So the police had established what they 1 I Please send me· thought was the right approach. But of no . of copies course nothing is perfect, and the Brits , _ 16675 The Battle for Moscow, Col Albert Seaton $2.50 had not yet come up against fanatics _ 16629 The Battl e of Leyte Gu lf, Edwin P. Hoyt 2.50 prepared to kill or to die in the cause of ··o-c· ;·' '"~:.. : _ 16634 Bloody Aachen, Charles Whiting 2.25 martyrdom. ~ i ' _ 16583 Bloody Buna, Lida Mayo 2.25 Bu_t even then , it was the appearance of ::.'~ /_ j _16696 Corregidor, James H. Belote and the first body - Lavasani - that made ·1 William M. Belote 2.25 the police take the initiative. On the direct . _ 16609 The Devil 's Virtuosos, David Downing 2.25 ; _ 16597 Dunkirk, Robert Jackson 2.25 order of the Prime Minister, the SAS went I _ 16688 Hitler's Werewolves, Charles Whiting 2.25 in. It took them 11 minutes. _ 16569 The Secret of Stalingrad, Walter Kerr 2.25 _ 16655 U-Boats Offshore, Edwin P. Hoyt 2.25 . _ 16571 Wake Island, Duane Schu ltz 2.25 '9Z :, _All eleven of the above 25.25 Please enclose 50c for postage and hand ling if one book is ordered ; 25c for each additional book. $1.50 maximum postage and handling charge. No cash , CODs or stamps. ****VOTE Send check or money order. Al low 4-6 weeks for delivery. T~ ::_o~e:'._o~ :______J

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relatives whom we hoped to ferry back to ARTICLE BY Florida. N.E. MACDOUGALD Other boats joined ours and by sunset the bay held 70 or more. The owners of commercial fishing vessels, speedboats, sailboats, skiboats, austere open fisher­ men and luxury cruisers (bristling with DAY ONE radar and antennae) bobbed together Key West To Cuba waiting for friends and relatives. About 2330 hours, immigration officers We put out from Key West at 0712. The boarded us and asked the usual questions. 24-foot fiberglass inboard/outboard was They left about midnight, saying we'd pushed by a GMC V-8. I made fast a spray have to take extra passengers from the tarp that had blown loose. When I looked still-crowded Peruvian embassy. During back, land was a hazy outline. the night, we were visited thrice more by At 3,000 rpm the bow rose, obscuring authorities. Each had a different story as our view; at 4,000 rpm it settled down and to how many people we should or could and we planed. We estimated the 90 miles take back with us. But the officials never would take four to five hours. gave us a specific date. During one of By noon the sky was overcast; Cuba these Catch-22 encounters, we were given was not yet visible and we'd nearly ex­ a number to tape on our windshield. pended our 30 gallons of reserve fuel. But From their behavior, it became clear we'd heard in Miami that we could buy that some officials were not used to gas in Cuba. Finally we spotted a lobster writing. And they had difficulty decipher­ boat dead ahead. We throttled back and ing their own forms. So much for Castro's learned from the crew that we were claims of having eliminated illiteracy. roughly on course. I took the wheel for awhile. DAY TWO We made Havana harbor an hour later High Hopes with a near-empty fuel tank. We passed Morro castle, infamous La Cabana pri­ We slept through fi rst light until 0600 son, and docked at a small harbor station hours. The sun was copper-brass, the sky southwest of it. The harbor was awash in only slightly hazy and the bay glassy. congealed petroleum and other flotsam. I After a banana breakfast, we stowed gear was sick and got out on the dock. in preparation for our guests. About Officials taking our names and registra­ 0730, more frontier guards appeared in tion numbers were neither rude nor their white-hulled, red-decked, twin in­ friendly . They radioed the name of our board/outboard patrol boats. I noticed a craft and our low gas situation to another roll of Ektachrome on the patrol boat's station. I noticed that the dispatcher had dashboard and assumed it was con­ to repeat our boat's name five or six fiscated. Later my companions confirmed times. He spelled the name each time, but my suspicions. The officer that boarded did not use the international (or any and talked with us wrote on crude un­ other) phonetic alphabet. bound paper, similar to that given grade Forty-five minutes later, a 30-foot, schoolers. battleship-gray, square-prowed cabin The upshot of the conversation was that cruiser approached us. It was a Russian­ our craft could take only four people by designed, diesel-powered jet drive and was choice, the remainder to be the officials' poorly maintained. The superstructure, choice. Because it was their ball game, fabricated from a composite material their rules and their guns, we agreed. similar to American beaverboard, was At 0915 hours, we were told by more broken on the port side. Two rusting, Guardia Frontera that we could top off folding-stock AK-47s rested in the angles our tanks at the pumps near the cement made by the cabin and bulkhead. The plant. We did. And that was our action three crewmen instructed us to follow for the day. them west where we could gas up. An hour later we made port and filled our DAY THREE tank and gas cans for $2 per gallon. The Cuban Capitalism TOP: "SO I" class Soviet ship officials here were a little friendlier. No displaces over 200 tons when • two uniforms I'd seen yet were alike. All When I awoke an hour after sunrise, loaded. Photo taken through were of poor quality. there was no haze to cut the sun's glare. hole In spray curtain. ABOVE: We followed the jet boat to the port of My companions informed me that all One of many Cuban patrol Barlovento. There we waited with other manner of boats had entered the bay dur­ craft, this twin small craft to convoy into Mariel Bay. ing the night and had filled up the bay's Inboard/outboard could be seen Later, an 18-foot cathedral-hulled patrol . other end. ·Now there were several hun­ dally In .Mariel Bay. Photo shot boat led us into the bay. dred boats waiting for Castro's castoffs. through pile of life jackets. We were told to stay anchored - that We began wondering how long we'd be authorities would visit us later. It was kept waiting. The monotony was begin­ 1800 now, dusk, and still overcast. Fifteen ning to get to us. We waited in ignorance. minutes later, a frontier guard boarded us and took the names of the two Cubanos' Continued on page 65 32 SOI.DIER OF llORTIJNE SEPTEMBER/SO LEFT: Low-draft navy craft patrolled daily. Sailor In blue trunks Is frogman. Photo taken via forward hatch through armpit. ABOVE: Open Cuban patrol boat powered by twin Inboard/outboard.

SEPTEMBER/BO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 33 TOP: Soviet" Hip "version of .Mil .Mi-8 makes low pass to take photographs of refugee fleet in .Mariel Bay. ABOVE: Communication vessel sports elaborate antennae. INSET: Cuban ship of the line. This battered little boat was powered by an ancient diesel. Note lack of maintenance.

34 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/SO During storm in Mariel Bay boats were shoved together and one capsized (lower right).

SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 35 An American With A t Mission:

Supporting Cambodian Anti-Communistst In A Lost But Courag~ous Cause

by Tony Bliss

Khmer Serei soldiers (right) at Reahou are armed primarily with American or Russian weapons captured from Khmer Rouge or Vietnamese. Types shown above are: AK-47 (soldier standing extreme left); RPO (soldier standing second from left), Chinese Type 68 7 .62mm rifle with 30-round magazine (soldier kneeling extreme left), AKM (soldier kneeling extreme right); M 1 Gs and M79 grenade launchers.

HEN Gary Ferguson, an American Navy veteran, jump­ Wed off the back of a covered pickup truck after being smuggled into an anti-communist refugee camp inside Cam­ bodia, he saw what he describes as "the worst thing I had ever experienced. "It Was a human garbage pit," says Ferguson. Rotting gar­ bage and excrement covered with swarms of flies littered the ground everywhere. A pond where refugees bathed and wash­ ed their clothes was putrid and full of waste. Feces surrounded the makeshift hospital and shelters used as schools. Even fo r the 36-year-old Ferguson, who had previously visited 14 refugee camps throughout Southeast Asia, it was sq ualor he was unprepared for. But to Ferguson, this camp of the Khmer Serei (Free Cambodians) called Ban Mak Mun was special. " These are people who have never given up to com­ munists," he says. For the Khmer Serei count as enemies both the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge soldiers of Pol Pot. The Khmer Serei have renamed the camp, which straddles the .Thai-Cambodian border, Reahou, after a legend of the sun god. The camp covers an area about 4,600 by 2,300 meters, 36 SOLDIEll OI' l'Oll'fUNE --- -. - ~, •-- \ I

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-·. - "> - .· though much of it is on low ground and He even brought his wife, Sandi, to Leonard Isler, the ICRC chief at will have to moved before the monsoon Reahou for a visit when she and their Aranyaprathet told the Post. hits. daughters, 9 and 11, made the trip to It wasn't long after the Red Cross com­ For one month Ferguson, whose home Thailand. plained to the Thai military about is in Arizona, lived inside Cambodia at Ferguson that he was arrested while cross­ Reahou. And, as he gained the trust of A Real Estate Tycoon ing into Thailand and charged with illegal Van Saren, the Khmer Serei leader and a With A Conscience entry and possession of firearms. On 4 fo rmer captain in Lon Nol's army, he was March, after two weeks in military and appointed to the camp's number three But for Ferguson, working in Reahou immigration jails, Ferguson found himself position. was no lark. It was a tough job and emo­ deported and "barred forever" from Ferguson says, however, that he "did tionally draining. "There would be times I Thailand. not exercise my power to that extent," would weep all night. I thought 'what's but, as Van Saren's trusted lieutenant and the use .' It is such an overwhelming prob­ Ferguson vs. The Red Cross adviser, he was involved in all major lem, most of the world doesn't give a rip camp decisions. Van Saren put him in and my contribution is so small. But then "It was a set-up," says Ferguson, who charge of camp sanitation, interior securi­ I would see those suffering people and the claims he was lured into Thailand on the ty and foreign relations, which included masses of children and those thoughts pretext of discussing a refugee movement the press and relief organizations as well would disappear," he says. plan with the Thais. The Red Cross ad­ as Vietnamese defectors. It was Van Saren "An Arizona real estate tycoon with a mits being very relieved to see Ferguson go who gave Ferguson the .45 automatic he conscience,'' is how the Bangkok Post - for good reason. For Ferguson, who by carried as a mark of authority. referred to Ferguson . The Post quotes his own admission rarely stops talking and Ferguson, though, has never fired a .45 Van Saren as saying Ferguson is "like a can be "rather" abrasive when con­ in his life . He spent his military career as a son to me. He has a good heart. The Red fronted with bureaucratic stupidity, had Navy commo specialist - some of it on a Cross comes here with a salary and ex­ waged a one-man public relations battle destroyer off the Vietnamese coast. Since penses paid, but Gary comes here on his against the Red Cross. April '79, when he liquidated most of his own." real estate holdings in Arizona worth The International Committee of the The Red Cross controls all medical about $400,000, he has devoted his life to Red Cross, however, has another view of teams and approves entry to the camps, so helping Indochinese refugees. He has Ferguson. "By his behavior he was distur­ right away Ferguson, as an "illegal" out­ worked in camps from the Laotian border bing our work, and some of our workers sider, became a potential threat to their to isolated Indonesian islands. were afraid that he might harm them," control.

Wife of soldier who died because there was no medical staff or medicine in the camp at night sits beside her husband's body.

38 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO Ferguson charges the International hospital where only those who died unat­ for a week. The next day when he con­ Committee of the Red Cross with extreme tended during the night would be buried. fronted a doctor who had seen the woman neglect. Their medical teams would arrive In a ceremony led by Buddhist monks, a previously, the doctor could only reply at about 9 in the morning and leave at 3 soldier Ferguson had failed to save was smugly: "Are you a doctor?" p.m. - or sooner if a round fell nearby. the first buried - a burial that coincided That bureaucracy and politics are in­ So all night the sick and wounded had with the arrival of the Red Cross team in tertwined with the fate of Reahou is in­ no medical attention. Nor did they have the morning. evitable. Estimates of the camp popula­ medicine, for the Red Cross locked away The insufficient medical care has tion in the press run from 55,000 to more all supplies before leaving. created a situation so bad that many peo­ than 300,000. Van Saren himself claims ple will not visit the hospital themselves 300,000. Yet the Red Cross says there are Trouble Over Dying nor take their children. "They don't trust only 55,000 and provides rice for only that Soldiers And Children them," Ferguson says, "and they don't number. want their children dying there unattend­ In addition, Ferguson says, "They ed at night." The War Around Reahou refused to work on soldiers and they car­ And this is at a time when the Red For the Khmer Serei are often a ried no morphine or plasma. All my Cross has announced in Geneva that headache for the wary Thais and Reahou troubles with the Red Cross were over dy­ fewer doctors are needed to treat Cambo­ is more than a refugee camp. Recon and ing soldiers and children." dians so as to "avoid the danger of the combat patrols move deep into Cambodia Ferguson's first run-in with the Red people becoming too dependent on a type from Reahou and coordinate with resist­ Cross occurred when he broke into a of medical care which, being too sophis­ ance groups throughout the country. medical chest at night to try - unsuc­ ticated, would not correspond to their "The Vietnamese are not safe anywhere," cessfully - to save a dying soldier. The needs." says Ferguson. Red Cross was furious. And when Fergu­ "Sure," says Ferguson, "there are doc­ So far, the Vietnamese attacks have son threatened to take drastic action un­ tors tripping. over each other in been limited to company-sized probes and less they improved the camp medical care Aranyaprathet but none stay inside Ban almost daily tank and mortar fire, but a - either themselves or by letting other Mak Mun." regimental-sized Vietnamese unit is agencies in - they became scared that Ferguson charges that those at Reahou reported within five kilometers of the Ferguson just might be angry enough to do not receive anything near adequate perimeter. use that .45 stuck in his waistband. medical care. An example he gives is when There are two main lines of defense To put pressure on the Red Cross, he helped several midwives abort a baby about 500 meters apart and several mine Ferguson created a cemetery next to the that had been dead in the mother's womb fields that surround the camp. Between

Close-up of living quarters in Reahou.

SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 39 these lines live the families of the soldiers who man the lines . Ferguson estimates there are 20,000 Khmer Serei troops at Reahou, but only about 2,000 are armed, mainly with AK-47s, M79s and RPGs - all of them captured from the communists. In February, the Khmer Serei printed circulars in Vietnamese urging Viet soldiers to defect and posted them in the interior. Results were almost immediate and several soldiers a day began coming into the camp. From debriefings it became clear that, in this area at least, most of the troops were drafted South Vietnamese who were both poorly trained and equip­ ped.

Ending Filth, Throwing Out The Money Changers

Ferguson, with his lack of combat training, was involved very little with the military aspects of Reahou. But he did set up a recruiting program that in one week obtained 5,000 volunteers. These men are trained to evacuate women and children in case of attack and to patrol the camps at night enforcing light and noise discipline. During the day, they are organized into work teams to build toilets and bury gar­ bage. The big pond behind the Khmer Serei offices was condemned and sanita­ tion regulations - such as small penalties fo r defecating outside the toilet areas - were set up and. enforced. "We began in small areas, especially the area where most visitors came and the market place, then we spread out into the living quarters," explained Ferguson. Cambodians come from all over the country to trade in the market place, which the western press simplistically labels a black market. Ferguson, though, calls it a "survival" market. Another project, one implemented only days before his arrest, was the elimination of the Thai money changers who ripped off desperate refugees by giving them next to nothing for their gold and siiver. The money changers were reduced to three Cambodians who dealt with a government bank that set equitable exchange rates.

The Press And Reahou

Ferguson has scorn for most of the western press who come into the camp "for 15 minutes and treat us like Disneyland." Many of the resulting stories were so inaccurate that he banned most journalists from the camp unless they would stay for 24 hours. Press stories have mentioned Van Saren in passing as a warlord holding people hostage by terror in order to enrich himself in a lucrative black market trade in international aid. 40 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO Ferguson violently denies these ac­ counts, most of which he says are put out by the Red Cross, upset because both they and the Thais have no control over Reahou. The soft-spoken Van Saren, according to Ferguson, has gone to extreme lengths to minimize corruption. One result is strict discipline, a discipline Ferguson says is "necessary for survival." And he challenges any journalists to inspect the camp's record of anti-corruption mea­ sures and investigate the camp thorough­ ly. None have so far. Yet, most of the western press - Ferguson has a higher regard for the Asian press - continues to echo the same phrases spouted by relief officials and make little effort to establish the truth. Ferguson claims many stories are based on a limited understanding of how the camp operates. People at Reahou are grouped according to the Cambodian pro­ vince from which they come and aid food is picked up directly by representatives from each area. Each week a portion of this food - about 100 sacks of rice - is stored by the central government under Van Saren. This food, Ferguson says, is used as pay for the soldiers and work teams. Some is used to feed the often hundreds of refugees that arrive daily. For it is not un­ til these recent arrivals register in their province area that they are put on a rice ration. This is not to say that all runs smoothly at Reahou. One man, who was number two in the camp until about a week before Ferguson arrived, caused quite a few pro­ blems. He was dubbed the "Mad Prince"

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TOP: Khmer Serei soldiers surrounded by children from the camp. MIDDLE: Van Saren (wearing cammies at left) receives visitors at Reahou. BOTTOM: Bunker used by Van Saren, Khmer Serei leader at Reahou, and Gary Ferguson. OPPOSITE PAGE: Young Khmer gi,rl in Reahou.

SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 41 ) ASSIGNMENT AFGHANISTAN SOF Correspondent On the Scene

Story by Galen L. Geer Photos by Galen L. Geer and Paul James

_Publisher's Note------. OF's AKS-74 Project .originated during a meeting in October 1979 between myself and an S international arms dealer. In the course of the conversation the arms dealer stated he would pay $10 ,000 for one of the new Russian assault rifles, though there was more curiosity about the round itself. Rumor Control theorized that the ammo could include a new flechette, an armor-piercing round, a hollowpoint and a trac.er round. Where could SOF get rounds or the rifle? A good question, as no western intelligence agency - including the CIA - had been able to procure an AKS-7 4 or the round, even though the weapon had been issued to elite Russian units since 197 5. We speculated that Afghanistan might be the place, due to a growing number of Russian advisers. But if we obtained one, how could we get it out of Pakistan and into the U.S.? J:he arms dealer replied cryp­ tically, "You get one and I'll send a man to Pakistan who will bring it out and into the U.S." He didn't elaborate. Trade secret, we presumed. (Incidentally, if one runs across some item of ordnance that might interest the U.S. government but is illegal to bring through U.S. Customs, he can abandon it to Customs, and notify the government agency which might be interested, which in turn will obtain the item if it so desires.) Late in October Managing Editor Bob Poos, while goose hunting with Galen Geer, discussed the feasibility of sending Geer, who's always looking for a war to cover, to Afghanistan on a dual mission - assess the Afghan war and obtain Russian equipment. Preferably before the CIA! When we read reports of Russian airborne units operating in Afghanistan after the 27 December invasion, our hopes rose. Un­ doubtedly the Afghan rebels would zap some Russian paratroopers - and capture AKS-74s and ammo. Off Geer went to Afghanistan. Before he left, the arms dealer was unwilling to front money to purchase the AKS-74. After Geer returned to Peshawar, Pakistan, he reported, "Yes, I've got the rounds but the gun is going to cost $15,000 - $5,000 to buy 3 AK-47s to use for barter for the weapon ... and $10,000 for the guy to bring it oµt ." SOF wasn't in a mood to foot the bill so we made a frantic call to the arms dealer who at that time was in Santiago, Chile. He agreed only to front $2,500 and another$ 7 ,500 when the weapon was delivered. Since we could not put the deal together, we decided to keep in touch with the man in Pakistan who would attempt to get the weapon out of Afghanistan. When Geer returned to the U.S., we would then decide upon the best course of action to obtain the weapon. By this time, we started developing a case of SOF paranoia. We'd had, by now, a lot of overseas phone and cable traffic - not exactly secure! What if the CIA decided that if SOF could do what they had not - bring out the AKS round - would be an embarrassment, and intervened at U.S. Customs to confiscate the rounds. We'd have pictures, but not hard evidence. Solution? Have Geer proceed to Seoul, Korea, to await further instructions. Poos would meet Geer in Seoul, take possession of a number of the rounds and wait to see if Geer got back with the goodies. If not, Poos was to give a portion of his rounds to yet another party in case he was on the "watch list" too. Either Customs was waiting for Geer or he fit a "stop" profile. His luggage was thoroughly searched and 23 rounds were confiscated and a receipt given. Poos returned a couple of days later and received the same treatment. One round was confiscated - but no receipt. The same day Geer arrived In the States, Geer and I flew to the east coast to hand-carry two AKS-7 4 rounds to a government agency (not the CIA) to beat the CIA. They did, and accomplished what the CIA, with Its billions of dollars and thousands of incompetents, could not. - Robert K. Brown

SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 43 W• JE walked in silence. One foot in front of the From time to time we stopped to listen, hoping WV other. Slowly. Feeling the rocks under our feet to hear the sound of a MIG or gunship before they and the sun beating down as if it were fire falling saw us or we saw them. It was a habit we had from the sky to heat the Afghan desert like an oven, picked up in the last 10 days. Always listening, baking us inside. There was no shade, not even a straining our eyes. As we walked the last few miles rock we could crawl under like a lizard seeking to the border and the Tribal Trust Lands that were shelter from the midday sun. So I walked. Eyes beyond it, I let my mind drift back over the days squinted against the sun. They hurt. The day before and miles to the night above Data Khel when we my eyes had been burned so badly by searing sun had slept fitfully in the mud hut with the sound of that the water in them had dried and the crusted artillery rumbling through the ground. Just as in film had to be peeled away like a layer of summer Vietnam, and even in Korea in '77 and '78, when sunburn. the time came for a new operation, a new story to A day, maybe two, away was the river. In my cover in some far-flung corner of a combat-riddled mind, as I walked I could see it. Fresh and clear. land, we grew quiet - each man lost in his own The water would be cold, it would swirl around my thoughts. The jokes, the stories ended - we were feet and legs as I waded across, stumbling on the left quietly reflecting what could be - that sharp rocks, smiling because I would know that we it could be the last adventure. had made it. Thinking about it, I turned around and In the mountains beyond the river, James and I I could see the camel. Paul James' pack was tied to knew, we would search for a story, and in that it, bobbing up and down as the camel walked. search we could leave our bones behind to be Inside that dark green, English army pack was our. bleached by the Afghan sun. prize. Why I had traveled halfway around the world, what "Soldier Of Fortune" Magazine had Invested Assignment Afghanistan thousands of dollars In since January: 30 rounds of ammunition for the Soviet Union's new rifle, the AKS•74. My assignment for SOF had been more than tracking down the rumor of the new bullet. It On The Trail Of The AKS-7 4 Round Included spending time with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to research a series of articles about For 10 days James and I had followed the trail of the organization, operations and weapons survival the "mystery bullet of Afghanistan." We had run the abilities of the Afghan Freedom Fighte,rs - the only gauntlet of Soviet MIGs and gunships. We had people in the world willing to lock horns stumbled across two deserts and climbed two with the mighty Soviet army. ~ountain ranges. We had, to find that damned Like most other writers who have found their way bullet, snaked along a narrow mountain road in into SOF, I yearn for adventure. Publisher Robert K. daylight, driving a captured Russian truck while Brown handed me adventure with the

Soviet tube weapons brought out by SOF. Exactly what kind of weapon (nerve gas or HE?) is still unknown. SOF has retained control of weapon until details with U.S. government can be worked out.

MIGs and gunships flew the valley. We had assignment to get the bullet. interviewed dozens of Afghans, always asking about "Bring it back," he said, "and we'll a strange, small bullet that made terrible wounds scoop them all." and which, when it hit a man, nearly always killed A challenge like that is not easily turned away him. From one Mujahideen stronghold to the next from. Also, I'm a journalist. There were we had wandered through Paktia Province in Af­ stories in Afghanistan and in the Tribal ghanistan trying to find it. Now we had it. Now all Trust Lands around Peshawar. we had to do was get it to the United States - half When I first arrived there, following a 36-hour a world away. train ride from Karachi, I rested for a day, then We were nearing the end of our walk through began making the rounds of various Islamic groups. Afghanistan. As we rounded the bend in the canyon As it turned out, the KGB had infiltrated many of the smell of dead camels, killed by Soviet aircraft the sources with which I had been provided and I earlier that day and already stinking in the desert found myself, on one almost fatal day, back­ Sl!n, assaulted us and we reeled backwards from pedaling to avoid attending my own execution. the smell. Pulling our shirts up over our noses, we By that time, I had begun to have my doubts walked past - after taking a few pictures. about anyone in Pakistan and was quite willing to 44 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/SO lack of a more distasteful term), I outlined my where James and I were hidden inside a refugee assignment to James, ending it with the rumor of tent while our equipment was loaded on a camel the new bullet and explaining that SOF was inter­ and our group of Mujahideen were hand-picked by ested in any stories I could bring out about new Doc. Because we had put together a trip into an weapons but that the story would be worthless area where bandits roamed the hills and Soviet air without physical evidence. was active, the Doc made each man who would go "Sounds like a good trip," James said, with us swear that he would die before he "and might even be a good story with would allow any harm to come to the some good photos." two western journalists. After we had been refinanced by the magazine, When everything was ready, Doc reappeared at and after several false starts, we were in the the tent and motioned us to follow. We were to Peshawar Bazaar buying Afghan clothing on spend the day walking up into the desert mountains Saturday, 19 April. The next morning we called a across the river while our camels and equipment taxi to our room, left instructions for the followed behind us. I didn't know it then, but management to store our clothes and other within a few days I would begin to dream of personal items and slipped out of the room, crossing that river again. ditching our Pakistani secret service tails after less We wound our way up into the desert, leaving than a block. Ten minutes later we were at the behind the lush valley along the river. When we political office of the Hezbi-lslami and were finally reached the crest of the mountain, I checked

Pathans in Darra with hybrid sporting rifle. To improve their "line," Pathans have been working out new designs of classic sporting rifles with only subtle changes to actions or stocks.

shunted into a back room where we waited for our my watch while we waited for tea. We had been guide. Half-an-hour later he showed up, motioned walking for almost seven hours. us outside and hustled us into a waiting For the trip down the mountain into the car for a breakneck ride through the wasteland valley, James and I rode the camels. Kohat Pass to Miram Shat. What neither one of us knew was that the trip down At Miram Shat, because we were only a few was along a narrow mountain trail from which it kilometers from the Afghan border and deep inside was a 500 to 1,000-foot drop. In an hour I had the Tribal Trust Lands, James and I were guarded blisters on my hands from holding onto the ropes carefully by the Mujahideen. That night we as I perched on the back of the swaying camel. discovered the rumors of the new bullet were not Looking down into the valley, every once in a while unfounded. While I was interviewing Mului Jalai Ud I could see the bones of a camel that hadn't made Din he suddenly produced one of the AKS-7 4 the trail. Not a pleasant sight when riding on the rounds, and another weapon that neither James nor I had seen before. As we questioned him and back of an animal that spits, farts, groans and does learned where more of the rounds and the strange everything you don't want it to do while all you can tube-shaped weapons might be found, James and I do is hang on and hope your will is in good order. planned the trip. The next day we were off to Data We traveled throughout the day and worked our Khel. Neither of us knew if we were on way into a broad valley late that evening. We spent a wild goose chase or what, but we were the night in another mud hut and went to sleep to determined to see it through. the sound of artillery pounding the next valley. We were taken to Data Khel in a captured The following morning we ate a breakfast of dry Russian jeep. Once we arrived, to avoid having bread ("nan") and tea, then set off again as soon as prying eyes identify us as westerners Inside the the camels were loaded. First we climbed to the Tribal Trust Lands, our guide, whom we called Doc top of a thousand-foot plateau, then began a because he had been In medical school when the four-hour walk up a gentle incline to the war started, bought James and me turbans. We pine-forest mountains ahead. were then shuttled into the mountains and spent the night In a mud hut. As we reached the pine forest, James and I The next morning, the Mujahldeen dragged us out climbed back on the camels for what proved to be of bed (off the floor) at 0400 to start our trip. We the shortest camel ride of the trip. Ten minutes returned to a refugee camp outside Data Kehl, after we started along the trail, the first gunships 48 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO appeared far overhead. James held an SLR while I idled away time smoking a cigarette on my camel. We heard the next Soviet chopper - lower and closer - before we saw it and somehow managed to get the camels stopped. This time I didn't wait for the camel to get all the way to the ground before I headed for the nearest cover I could find - with James hot on my trail. As we settled down to let the choppers pass over, James and I smiled at each other. "Getting fun, isn't it, ole' boy," James said, then laughed. He was at home. Myself, I kept thinking: "Where is our air?" Then I realized we didn't have any. We spent the rest of that day (and every day after, although not as often) dodging choppers and MIGs. It didn't take long until our ears were tuned to the very distant "chop· chop" of the Mi-24. Ivan only flies in the morning and evening. We had just reached the edge of his range but there were enough MIGs in the air, and choppers prowling around at lower levels, that we kept alert. Also, we found out the route we were following was Ivan's favorite bomb run in the province. Unexploded rockets littered the area and we had our hands full convincing the Mujahideen that we did not want a Russian rocket to take back to the States. A Large Standing Target

We moved on foot throughout the day, sticking to the cover along the streams as best we could until evening. We reached the Russian truck Doc had driven away from an ambush a few weeks earlier and parked in a ravine. After an hour of fiddling with the batteries and pouring gas in the tanks, the truck was ready to go. That was when Doc informed me he had driven the truck up the valley and river bottom in first gear. James declined the invitation to drive, so I climbed

ABOVE: SOFs guide - the "Doc" - poses in captured Russian truck along road to Zeroke. His f~mily was bombed out of their ancestral home by Soviet MiGs and gunships in January before the fighting in Zeroke had even started.

RIGHT: Chinese copy of Russian ZPU-114.Smm towed anti­ aircraft machine gun deployed on hilltop near Gardez.

SEPTEMBER/SO At Mujahideen stronghold in pine forest above eastern desert, Afghan rebel practices with Russian DShK 38 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun.

ABOVE: Tube weapon brought out of Afghanistan by SOF is held by Mului Jalal Udi Den.

LEFT: In o.rder to penetrate Afghan desert, SOF's Geer (left) had to dress as Afghan. Weapons shown in photo are Russian AKM, RPG-7 and French 9mm Hotchkiss submachine gun.

RIGHT: Mujahideen prepare to load camel before trek through Afghan desert. SEPTEMBER/BO behind the wheel, figuring there might be a road around that Doc would follow. There wasn't. I drove the damn truck, with 17 Mujahideen in the back laughing at every bump, waving their party's flag around (it's white and I brought one back for the SOF office). James sat next to the door, scanning the sky for choppers, and the Doc, along with our interpreter, sat between us arguing about which way to go along the river bottom. After about 10 miles of the most back-breaking, kidney-pounding ride I have ever been on, we reached another tea house along the river and decided to call it a day, since the lights didn't work and the brakes were shot. I parked the truck down by the river, figuring that if Ivan did fly up the valley and see the truck we would be safe. Besides, there was a full moon and sooner or later Ivan was bound to figure out choppers can fly at night. Neither James nor I was willing to sleep inside the mud hut and we convinced the Mujahideen we would be better off sleeping on top of it. Actually, we figured it would be easier to find a hole if we were outside, since there are no windows in the huts. After our gear had been unloaded from the truck (we left the camels when we picked it up), James and I were setting about making ourselves comfortable when we heard the truck start up. A few minutes later it was parked next to our hut. "Shit!" I yelled. "You trying to get us all killed?" I tried to explain that the truck was too good a target to park next to us, but the Mujahideen were proud of their Russian truck and wanted everyone to know it was ours. Finally James and I gave up, ate a few handfuls of rice, drank our tea and went to sleep. One of us said something about it being a nice night to die before we started snoring.

A White Knuckler

/ The next morning we were up before dawn and after the usual breakfast of tea and bread were off again. The same group of nuts were in the back waving that damn flag while James and I sat on either side of our two argumentative Afghans in the front. Except for James, who was watching the skies, no one else gave a shit. When we reached the promised road, it t urned out to be a shelf carved into the side of a damn mountain with a 500-foot drop inches away on one side (half the SOI.DIER OF FORTUNE 49 · time the outside dual wheel was hanging off the edge) and a rock wall on the other. As we snaked along this road (where an American truck would never have gone), stopping every half hour or so to ditch the truck and run for cover while choppers flew past, I kept visualizing either SOF Publisher Bob Brown or Managing Editor Bob Poos tied to the ftont of the truck on my next trip unless we started drawing "dumb, dumb duty pay." After four or five hours with the truck, James and I sighed with relief when it ran out of gas and we started walking cross-country again. Later, we found the road had been shot up around a turn and had we tried to drive any further we would have ended up at the bottom of the cliff. An AA Salute At Zeroke

We were back in the desert by this time, with new camels about an hour behind us. We walked until 1700 without food or water until we reached the edge of Zeroke - or what Ivan had left of it. We rested in a sniall tea house, then set off for the pine forest 10 miles away and the stronghold in which we hoped to find the bullets. When we arrived, the Mujahideen gave us their traditional greeting for anyone crazy enough to cross the desert and reach them - they opened up with all their AA guns at once. Which, of course, sent both James and me to the ground in a heap. That evening, James and I toured the area, then feasted on a meal of roast mutton - three chunks of meat floating in some kind of oil that left you well lubed. That night we interviewed the Zeroke commander and then fell into our beds on the floor. By this time, day and night and the number of days we had been gone, all seemed to blend together. The next morning we took another trip across the desert, to look over the last Soviet stronghold in Paktia Province and were informed that by the end of May that stronghold would be no more. They were planning the attack then and were

Soviet air has healthy respect for the 14.Smm ZPU-1 anti· aircraft guns used by Mujahideen to defend mountain stronghold of Gardez.

SEPTEMBER/BO waiting on some more men before starting it. (As questions about the new bullet. This time we were we go to press, Moslem newspapers report heavy told the depot where the captured bullets were fighting in the Zeroke-Tank area and the death of stored was 15 miles away in the mountains. Setting Afghan leader Sabdul Kahn, brother of one of our out in another truck, we lurched and and bounced guides.) across the hills until we reached the Later, we asked about the bullet and were main depot of Hezbi-lslami. informed it was another 30 miles away. But, since we were going to write a story about how the Dropped At Our Feet Russians were not fighting like men, the commander of Zeroke agreed to provide us with After another series of interviews, photographic another Russian truck for the trip to the next depot sessions and general visiting over tea, we were (stronghold) rather than our having to walk, which suddenly ushered out of the headquarters and into would take three days. another Russian truck. For half an hour we bounced Late that afternoon we were off again. As before, along on what had to have been the worst ride yet, the Mujahideen believed in short-cuts, right over then left the truck and climbed past captured the top of the mountains. As far as they are artillery towards a collection of huts along the crest concerned, river bottoms and creeks are super of a hill. There, weapons were laid out for us to highways. This time, James and I were able to ride view and, as James and I took pictures and asked in the back, as we were provided with a driver. questions, the impossible happened. First, two of About 2100, though, the truck bogged down and the new tube weapons were handed to us, "as gifts the Mujahideen worked in shifts to free it (they for the American military magazine (SOF)," then a worked until dawn) while James and I carried our small sack of ammunition was dropped at our feet gear up into what we thought was an old mountain - the AKS-74 bullets. home where we curled up and went to sleep. The It was dark by this time and James and I next morning we discovered it was a camel stall. followed the small group of Mujahideen into the "hospital," little more than another hut with Ivan got his ass kicked. vitamins and crude bandages stacked around the room. Later, still carrying the ammunition and tube By dawn, we were ready to go again, and when weapons, we followed the Mujahideen down the we finally reached the top of the mountain and mountain to another hut where we met with all of started down, James and I thought there was not a the local leaders. After interviewing them, then place on our bodies which hadn't been bruised. At drawing diagrams of how they could improve their mid-morning, we stopped for a tea-and-biscuits defenses, James and I began to make arrangements breakfast before setting off down the mountain to get back to Peshawar with our prizes. At 0200, through an area which Ivan had fire-bombed a few in another truck, with two men to serve as guards days before (See "Soviet Firesticks," p. 52). Early to the edge of the mountains, our guide, an that afternoon, we reached the road to Gardez and interpreter and a driver, we started our trip back.

Weapons familiarization for new recruits in stronghold. Mujahideen have grown up fighting with weapons like British SMLEs (Short Magazine Lee Enfields) but new recruits must be trained by more experienced men in use of RPGs and other modern weapons. the area of the heaviest fighting between the Now James and I were worried about security. Mujahideen and Russians. It was clear after a few Both of us knew the KGB had penetrated the miles on the road (we walked part of the way), that Mujahldeen. If word got out that we had the new Ivan got his ass kicked. More than 100 pieces of rounds and the tube weapons [due to national equipment the Mujahideen had knocked out littered security, another item we brought out for SOF can the area. I counted over a dozen tanks, 30 APCs not be named], Ivan would stop at nothing to nail and scores of trucks and other equipment. us. For that reason, we decided to move all night late that afternoon, we stopped at a Mujahideen and into the next without a break. It would mean outpost to eat honey, "nan" and have tea. After 36 hours of walking and riding without stopping, shooting a few pictures, James and I again asked but it would be worth it. SEPTEMBER/80 SOLDIER 011 llOll'fUNE 51 The next morning, we left the AUTHOR'S NOTE: It would be two with fire bombs - that a single truck and its driver along the road to more days before we reached bomb could almost cover a football Zeroke and with our two Mujahideen Peshawar, then 10 more before the field with burning sticks, assuming and one more man to serve as rounds would be in the States. the Mujahideen were telling the gunner we started walking. We Although Customs did manage to truth about only one jet bombing the walked until that afternoon when we confiscate 23 of the rounds in area. reached our truck (the Doc had Hawaii SOF was able to extract A second delivery system and use found some gas someplace). By this them from the clutches of of the weapon is apparently reserved time, James and I were so used to bureaucracy. for villages. Thousands of the sticks his coming up with things and Tests are being conducted on the are dropped from helicopters, pulling off-the-wall stunts like rounds at this time and SOF will blanketing the village. White shooting quail with a .38 pistol, have a through ballistic analysis of phosphorus rockets are then fired we stopped paying any attention the AKS-74 rounds next month. into the village, igniting the sticks to his exploits. After refueling, and setting off a chain-reaction fire we were off again. We reached a which cannot be stopped. According safe house that night and ate to the Afghans interviewed by SOF, a meager meal of bread and tea before turning into zombies and falling asleep. The next morning, Soviet we were up before dawn and returned the truck to its Fire Sticks Parachute original hiding place. From there we walked, carrying our prizes and camera equipment, OF has documented proof the up a stream and over another S Soviets are using fire bombs in mountain. We were taking a more Afghanistan. After nearly a month of direct route back because of following leads on the weapon, security, but one that meant a climb including obtaining several samples that lasted nearly all day. of it and interviewing both Mujahi­ Finally, we started down the deen leaders and former Afghan mountain and at mid-afternoon army officers, we can present a clear stopped at a tea house, where the picture of the weapon's use and Doc managed to scrounge up a bowl design to SOF readers. of rice and some onions. An hour During my own 150-mile trek later, we feasted on our first meal through Afghanistan last April, I since leaving the depot and getting passed through an area of pine our bullets: rice, onions, tea and forest where "fire sticks" had been bread. Two hours later we were on used to clear concealing cover along the road again. a Mujahideen supply road in the mountains above Gardez, in Paktia Water swirled Province. The destruction of the around my legs. pine forest where the bombs were Shaped charge The days and nights in Afghanistan used was complete. had become blurred, and as we The individual fire sticks are about passed the dead camels, walked out a foot long and a quarter-inch in onto the desert and finally crossed diameter. They are brown in color Firebomb into Pakistan, neither James nor I and are hollow. When a piece is could speak. Our mouths were broken off and ignited with a match, is about swollen from lack of water and our it burns like cordite, although it the size of feet seemed like lead. That night we appears to burn a little. hotter. The slept in the desert with a refugee sticks are used in two ways by the 55 gal. oil family and were up at 0300 walking. Russians. drum That afternoon, with the sun still The first and most common means burning my hide, the sweat from the of delivery described is by heat long since burned away and my parachute. Apparently thousands of body wrinkled from lack of the sticks are tightly packed in a moisture, I saw the river. Two hours conical-shaped container with a later I felt it around my ankles, then shaped charge and igniter designed the fire sticks' two primary uses are my legs. The rocks cut at my bare to throw burning fire sticks over a to burn villages and clear cover used feet as I carried my boots. wide area. A detonator is in the nose by the Mujahideen. This would As I sat down on the far side to of the cannister, and the parachute account for most, but not all, of the put my boots back on, I looked at is packed in the flat end. The entire napalm stories being published by James. He was smiling. bomb is about the size of a the western press. "Well, old boy," I said, finally able 55-gallon oil drum and a single MiG The samples of the weapon which to talk again after drinking the cool can carry four of the bombs, Paul James and I obtained in our water. "It looks like all we have to although the Afghan defectors we search through the Northwest worry about now is bandits stealing interviewed stressed that the MiGs Frontier Province of. Pakistan are our toys." can only drop one bomb at a time now being tested and should .provide "Screw 'em," James said, then and must make four runs to deliver interesting information to SOF walked back into the water and all four. readers in a future issue. began splashing. I dropped my boots We believe - from the evidence of Copyright © 1980 Soldier of Fortune and followed him. the area we viewed, which was hit Magazine and Galen L. Geer 52 SOLDlllR OF 110ll1'UNE SEPTEMBER/SO In the surgeons' lounge, I found are still finding wounds that we Dr. Mahn Zuhr and a half-dozen must call freaks because they do not Mysterious other doctors eagerly waiting. They match the wounds which are were all willing to talk about their expected, even from high-velocity Wounds problems and cases, hoping America weapons such as were used would listen. in Vietnam." UHYBER Hospital in Peshawar, "We have had," they all said, Another surgeon, Dr. Rah In, an ~akistan, looks like the wrong "some very unusual cases here. But Afghan refugee himself and former place to be treated for battle you must remember that we are Mlijahideen, shed more light on the wounds. Hundreds of Pakistanis and eight to 10 days away from the wounds when he explained some of Afghan refugees cluster about the fighting, by foot, and that many his cases to SOF. hospital's main gate while piles of of those wounded in Afghanistan "In many cases a man is shot and trash litter the street in front of it. never reach us." we do not find a bullet, or even a Rumors have a habit of drawing Mahn Zuhr explained that only larqe piece of ~hat would be the people to strange corners of the Mujahideen wounded near the 'slug.' All we find are small pieces world, however. Following the Pakistan border area or walking and a very large wound. I don't Russian invasion of Afghanistan last wounded return to Pakistan. believe the bullets explode, but they December, rumors of strange ''They must cross mountains, are much faster than before and wounds to the Mujahideen freedom rivers and always there are the made so they break up into small fighters were filtering into the SOF Russian helicopters searching for pieces, causing more damage." office in Boulder, Colo. I was in them." He added, "Only a very small All of the doctors claimed that Peshawar's Khyber Hospital to percentage of the wounded, perhaps often whole bone sections, such as check out those rumors. only 10 percent, can make it here. the forearm, thigh, ankle or foot, or According to reports received in Most die." any place on a limb, would explode Boulder, Mujahideen brought into Pakistan from the Afghan fighting were suffering wounds from a light infantry weapon which produced "terrible injuries." Reports ranged from a splinter round to super-high­ velocity slugs, explosive bullets and flechettes. American officials in Peshawar were reluctant to talk about the wounds although they had seen "disturbing reports." From them I was given·the name of a lead in Peshawar. Late that night, two doctors from Khyber Hospital visited me at the Dean's Hotel in Pesh.awar's Cantonment. One was Dr. Mahn Zuhr, a surgeon at Khyber Hospital, and the other was a pathologist who did not want to give his name. The two men spent more than an hour talking about battle wounds they had seen in the hospital; They admitted they were U.S. officials have provided the from the round's impact. fearful about giving too much Pakistani doctors with technical "One man," Mahn Zuhr said, "was information because of the reports covering the types of hit here [he pointed to the upper abundance of wild rumors, many of wounds experienced in Vietnam in arm], and the entire bone, from the them put out by members of the an effort to help them, since elbow to the shoulder, including the various Islamic fronts operating in U.S. medical teams, experienced in joint, was splintered. I don't think," Peshawar. They added they had battle wounds, are not allowed he said, "that was a freak of battle.'' bullet injuries they could not in Pakistan. All of the doctors at Khyber are explain. Dr. Mahn Zuhr agreed As one official explained, "These hesitant to release much to meet me the following day people are used to .303s and information because they realize at Khyber Hospital and go over low-velocity bullets, not the they have something unusual. Also, some of his cases. sophisticated weapons the Soviets they want to study the wounds and, As an orderly led me through the are using. This means almost all of as explained by Rah In, "I want to packed crowds of Afghans in the the wounds are strange." write medical papers about what we hospital the following morning, two Mahn Zuhr and other doctors differ have found so that the world will things struck me. One was the lack with the "official position." They -understand." of a sterile atmosphere found in admit most of the wounds at the They are also convinced that the even the most forward medical units start of the war were new to them. Soviet Union is using weapons in in Vietnam, and the second was the However, they claim they have Afghanistan against the Mujahideen Afghans' apparent immunity to pain. treated enough of them, and studied that the west has not yet seen. Many sat, silent and sullen, against the U.S. reports, to know which the walls of the long hallways of the wounds come from what weapon. hospital with makeshift dressings "Even comparing the reports with over their wounds. the wounds," Mahn Zuhr says, "we Continued on page 83 SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 53 As commanding general, Tukhachev­ sky unfolded a plan guaranteed to destroy FLIGHT OF THE the smaller Polish army - a counterat­ tack with three forces, using the largest forces in the northern front as spearhead. Stalin's southern front would push for­ WHITE EAGLES ward, always in contact with and in sup­ port of the northern front. Budyenny's cavalry would lead the southern front. Further north, another self-contained American Meres cavalry army would provide flank security for the northern front's right flank. With three times as many cannon, twice as many airplanes and a larger cavalry Thwart Red. Army corps, the three-pronged Soviet offensive began to roll up its weaker Polish adver­ sary, scattered in garrisions to protect sup­ ply lines from Kiev to Lvov and Warsaw. Part 2 - Conclusion The heretofore underrated Polish air force was thrown in to stem the tide of ad­ vance. N the southern front, facing the Ko­ by Dana K. Drenkowski O narm iya spearhead, the 7th Kosciuszko Squadron worked from dawn to dusk, flying sorties to delay the enemy. Both sides soon realized the machine-gun­ N 1919, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, chief Armored trains were used extensively armed, bomb-dropping airplanes were an I of state of Poland, agreed to allow by both sides as highly-mobile artillery extremely effective fighting force. Time Capt. Merian C. Cooper to farm a squad­ and armor platforms, capable of rushing and again, Yank pilots spotted enemy ron of American flyers to fight for masses of prep/aced artillery to attack or forces closing in on unsuspecting Polish Poland. Cooper and Maj. Cedric E. defend key positions wherever there was a units. They dropped warning messages to Fauntleroy recruited six other volunteers railroad available. Noble was lost to the the Poles, then attacked the Bolsheviks to form the nucleus of the Kosciuszko squadron when wounded while attacking singly or in pairs. Squadron in Poland's war against Russia. a Russian armored train. However, his at­ Virtually every time, they slowed or I'he Polish High Commanq, although tack chased Bolshevik guards away from disrupted the Russian advance, enabling initially skeptical, sOOIJ came to appreciate Polish hostages, who escaped during his the Polish force to fight back successfully its air arm and emp!Oyed it in different strafing runs from almost certain death. or escape intact. At times, the angry roles. Unsurpassed as a reconnaissance Noble was awarded the Virtuti Militari, hornets flying over their units literally force, it provided the army with up-to­ Poland's highest award for valor. fought the entire Konarmiya to a stand­ date information about enemy concentra­ By 7 May, the victorious Polish army still, spitting hundreds of machine-gun tions and movements. The PAP hit supply captured Kiev on the banks of the bullets into marching cavalry units. lines with light-bomb and machine-gun at­ Dneiper, 400 miles inside the Ukraine in tacks ar:rd spearheaded Polish infan try Russia. But Pilsudski and his staff realiz­ One of Budyenny's cavalrym~n describ­ and cavalry attacks against Bolshevik ed victory was hollow without destruction ed such an attack as being so skillful that positions. For much of the winter of of the Bolshevik army, whose reinforce­ "none of the shots fired by our men did 1919-1920, the 7th Kosciuszko Squad­ ments were streaming toward the Dneiper. the Americans any harm." ron 's fame spread throughout the Polish During this action, Maj. Fauntleroy, Not only their enemies took note of the and Bolshevik armies. squadron commander, was awarded the 7th Kosciuszko Squadron's activities . A By April 1920, Marshal Pilsudski had Virtuti Militari for warning a Polish troop U.S. intelligence report declared: "Durin_g definite proof the Bolshevik army, clean­ train of an impending Russian cavalry am­ the retreat of the Polish army from Kiev ing up anti-Red resistance in the Crimea, bush. He halted the train and the troop . . . aviation was used probably for the meant to attack Poland within the next 45 commander deployed his men in fight(ng first time as the rear guard of an army." days. On 25 April 1920, the Polish army formation. Fauntleroy returned to his In order to keep the squadron mobile, attacked on all fronts to pre-empt the plane and supported the attack which "everything possible was left on the coming . Russian offensive. The Kosciu­ decimated the unprepared Bolsheviks. railway trains. Personnel were quartered szko Squadron mobilized by using box­ Meanwhile the Politburo met in Russia there. Fifty-seven cars were required for cars for mess facilities, armory and engine and decided to send in their top the squadron. For changing fields the shops and living quarters. Airfields were troubleshooter, Leon Trotsky, Red Army railway was used almost exclusively. Con­ smooth meadows and pastures next to commissar and Politburo-member. Trot­ sequently, fields had to be near the railroad lines. sky brought Gen. Mikhail Tukhachevsky, railway lines. The Kosciuszko Squadron, one of the Russia's leading strategist, with him to "When the Bolshevik cavalry ap­ four covering the southern prong of a take operational control of the Bolshevik proached too near a field, everything ex­ 150,000-man, two-prong advance, carried forces. The two men took command of cept the planes, a few mechanics and the more than its weight in the battle. In fact, the larger northern front while retaining serviceable trucks moved by train to a Capt. Cooper was responsible for Polish authority over the southern forces. previously selected field in the rear. There air superiority due to a fortunate accident. Josef Stalin was commissar for the was no opposition from Bolshevik avia­ He and "Jg" Noble shot up a Bolshevik southern forces. His army was reinforced tion." encampment, not realizing it was the Rus­ by the Konarmiya, a self-contained The report lists Budyenney's army as sian air force headquarters. This attack so cavalry unit led by Gen. Semen having four cavalry divisions of three demoralized the Red pilots that they flew Mihailovich Budyenny. The Konarmiya brigades each with a total of more than back to Kiev, 400 miles to the rear of the was noted for its ruthlessness and victories 20,000 men, an extremely mobile force attacking armies. during Russia's civil war. that covered remarkable distances, being 54 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/SO able to march 70 kilometers every day, us­ ing river beds and forest trails, while avoiding main roads. The report declares, however, "Avia­ tion was always able to follow them with the greatest ease except during the early morning or late at night." It listed Kosciuszko Squadron strength at "eight pilots and 14 single-place scout planes" and described aerial tactics: on sighting an enemy column, the pilot flew out of range about one-half mile to the rear and then flew over at 300 meters' altitude to drop two bombs on the wagon trains before diving and strafing troops with machine guns. The report continued: "At this period of the attack, the wagon trains and the rear of the cavalry would commence scat­ tering in all directions, and with the number of killed and wounded men and horses, the confusion is very great."

Planes vs. Cavalry

The pilot opened his motor full so its roar would frighten the horses. He flew directly down the line, elevating and lowering the plane's nose slightly 10 to 15 meters above the column. He could spray ITALIAN ANSALDO A-1 BALILLAS machine-gun bullets through the column's Capt. Buck Crawford and Lt. entire length, causing casualties, great Alexsander Sendowski attack column disorder and confusion. This enabled one of Cossacks. In this frequently squadron to check the advance of 20,000 repeated manuever of the Polish­ AUSTRIAN ALBATROS D.III cavalry for several hours every day. Russian war, machine-gun fire Capt. Edward Corsi attacks Bolshevik The report declared the only successful inflicted heavy casualties on men and armored train, making several strafing counterattack technique upon the plane's horses and disrupted Bolshevik passes and raking it with machine-gun approach was "to have different units advance. fire, to disable locomotive, enabling throughout the column dismount and Polish ground forces to capture train. hold their horses by the reins . The dis­ mounted men could deliver more effective fire and better control their horses." Despite Polish aviation, the Reds steadily advanced. In the north, Gen. Ghai's cavalry corps wreaked havoc upon the retreating Poles. His effectiveness won him and his troops the name " Ghai Khan and the Golden Horde," in emulation of Genghis Khan and his Mongol horsemen . The situation grew steadily more tense for the Western democracies which at first had condemned Pilsudski's pre-emptive strike into the Ukraine. They now watch­ ed with trepidation as Bolshevik forces neared their own borders. The situation worsened during July. Obviously the Red Army was going to advance well into Poland. The Kosciuszko Squadron tried to hold back the onrushing Konarmiya, but began taking casualties it could ill afford. Rorison, the native North Carolinian, was seriously injured when shot down in May, but returned to flying status. However, his wounds refused to heal and he was shipped home to the U.S. Lt. Shrewsbury returned to the States for a personal emergency. Capt. Arthur Kelly joined the squadron. Capt. Cooper was promoted to Continued on page 62 SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 55 "Apocalypse Now" Screenwriter Speaks Out ..

John• m1I1us• •

56 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO Interview and Photographs by N.E. MacDougald

SOP editor N.E. MacDougald traveled to Southern or the people that edited it. Many of his scenes that were California recently to interview movie mogul John Mi­ cut were outstanding, fascinating to watch. I completely lius. MacDougald spent two days with Milius and his believed him as Kurtz. wife, Celia. He talked with Hollywood's wunderkind at I believe a man that is this complex. The way I his sprawling Bel Air home, at his office (A-Team Pro­ originally wrote it, Kurtz would have been more of a ductions) and at one of the Milius' favorite shooting Lee Marvin type, a lean, tough, grizzled individual that clubs. His report: would seem more like a Green Beret colonel, as opposed OHN Milius doesn't put you on hold when he meets to Brando who got fat. There was no solution to that for J you. He's warm and informal and makes you feel Francis other than to put him in black pajamas and pho­ like you're a friend he hasn't seen in a long time, rather tograph him the way we did and that still works for me: than someone he just met. He and his gracious wife, this huge, heavy figure, that one wonderful photograph. Celia, shared their home with me without making me "This is the last picture of Kurtz" - this dark gorilla­ feel like a guest. like figure in the dosier. They are an unpretentious pair, more concerned with I thought that worked well, but my script was the op­ the real world than with Hollywood's gilt-laden artifice: posite. I wrote Kurtz as emaciated, not just a lean, more comfortable with meat-and-potatoes issues than strack colonel, but a man suffering from a festering Tinseltown's adulation. wound that was killing him from inside. The idea was Milius' screen credits, already awesome, belie the ex­ that he was almost cadaverous but still powerful in his perience of a man still in his mid-30s. He has given the mind. world such moving, varied works as Dirty Harry, Mag­ SOF: Apocalypse Now cost over $30 million. Do you num Force, The Wind and the Lion, Jeremiah Johnson think it was worth it? and Apocalypse Now. Presently, he is working on Con­ MILIUS: Yes. I disagree and argue with a few things, an, The Barbarian, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in but I think it is a major piece of work. I really give Fran­ the title role. cis a lot of credit for that. I think he is a great director. From the onset, Milius' reputation as iconoclast and SOF: What is Coppola like to work with? politically astute patriot proved true. He has not slipped MILIUS: He's a master manipulator. I think Francis into the easy rhetoric of euphemisms and generalities doesn't have many statements he believes in nor much like so many in power have. Instead, Milius speaks out, of a personal philosophy. But he is the greatest at using his power and position like a gentle giant: not to gathering interesting people around him - interesting bully but to reassure. personal philosophies - and melding them into some­ SOF: What do you think of Brando making $7 million thing. Ultimately, if there is a failure in Apocalypse, it's from his role in Apocalypse Now? a failure to provide a definitive point of view. MILIUS: They've been paying famous actors like Bran­ Francis and I didn't want to make an anti-war movie, do 10 percent of the gross for a long time. That's the but an anti-lie movie and I think that's strongly express­ deal they make going in; the actors say they want a ed in the film. He said an interesting thing on television percentage of the gross to be in the movie. I think the other night. He was asked why.Vietnam caused so perhaps there should be a cutoff point or something like much trouble. that. But in Apocalypse Now many people said Brando He replied, "Americans have always believed in wasn't worth it, because he was there only a month. If themselves and have always wanted to be straight-shoot­ Francis [Coppola] needed Brando to get the movie ers." But the grunts in the field, and even the generals weren't told the truth. No one seemed to know what the made, then you live with the deal. You don't complain truth was and you can't fight a war for a lie. Americans about it. Despite what anyone thinks about Brando, he don't like to lie - they like to shoot straight. certainly made a great impression. I love watching him; Americans don't like to lie - they like to shoot straight. I don't tire of watching Brando. I may disagree with What was philosophically disturbing was, if we're go­ him politically or philosophically, but he's still the most ing into a war to defeat communism, and I accept that, interesting actor on screen. then we must win. Why do we have rules of engage­ SOF: In the final analysis, do you think he was worth it? ment? Why do we have areas you can bomb and areas MILIUS: Yes, I do. I think he did a fine job. I disagree you can't? with a lot of people about it, and I've seen more Brando Apocalypse shows a certain mad intensity that is in Apocalypse Now than anyone else, other than Francis seductive. I'm not saying it's pro-war or anti-war - it's

SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 57 simply an examination of war. I would not work with In Conan, my next film, the themes will be much the Francis again because he's dishonest, but he also gets same - the conflicts between the "free man" and his the best out of you. He's very good at what he does. civilized restraints. How you reconcile these conflicts is SOF: How is Coppola dishonest? often the test of the person. There's a purity in man's MILIUS: He tells people that he created the things that I pagan past and a sense of evil. And there is certainly an did. That's dishonest. He didn't read Apocalpyse Now unclear-nature to his civilizing restraints. There's a part until 1972. I think -he didn't read Heart of Darkness un­ of it you can call progress and enlightenment but part of til 1974, yet he says he suggested that it be done from it is as evil as anything from his heathen history or Heart of Darkness and discredits me. I don't care about worse. I haven't become completely comfortable with it that much; it's just that you should give credit where man's civilized restraints. I don't know that other peo­ it's due. ple have either. I think they fool themselves. SOF: What did you think of Duval's performance in I like The Wind and The Lion too. I think it says Apocalypse? clearly what it is and goes about doing a job. It's a good MILIUS: I found that section of the movie heavy­ piece of historical adventure and that's what I like to handed. But I thought Duval was terrific in it; I thought do. he saved it. Someone else would have gone one step fur­ SOF: Tell us more about Conan. ther and overdone it. If I were to write that scene again, MILIUS: One of the things that really attracted me to I would approach it a little more obliquely. I thought it Conan when I started reading the books by R.E. was wonderfully outrageous at the time because it was Howard was the theme that Conan the barbarian, King an outrageous war when I wrote that scene in 1969. I Kall or any of Howard's characters, don't trust civiliza­ don't think there is much in the scene that is beyond tion. Civilization is always looked upon as evil, corrupt what any Vietnam vet saw over there. War promotes a and decadent, yet wonderfully attractive and seductive. sense of absurdity. Conan is drawn into snares but his reliance on barbarian SOF: Have you read Catch-22? simplicity, honor and will pulls him out of situations. MILIUS: I read it when it first came out. Conan believes in the individual. SOF: Did it influence Apocalypse Now? I find that my characters are more questioning than MILIUS: No, I think Dr. Strangelove influenced it before. I think Dirty Harry and Jeremiah Johnson were more. Catch-22 had a no-hope attitude. Catch-22, to left asking a question of themselves. I think it helps to me, was a fantasy. I never felt they were really fighting a have a flaw in a character, a chink in his philosophy war. somewhere that allows him to challenge himself. I think But Dr. Strange/ove really had a quality that was ab­ Conan will explore this too. It'll be a good adventure surd and hilarious, yet you could believe the characters. story and it'll be good pagan entertainment. I've tried to They were wonderful characters. create a story, a mood, a feeling, that is without Judeoc Take Slim Pickens, for example. Jf anyone can have a Christian morality. great death, it would be to ride a 30-megaton nuclear SOF: Where will Conan be shot? device down into an ICBM silo. What better way can MILIUS: We're thinking maybe Canada, but more than you go? likely we'll shoot in Europe someplace. Someplace like SOF: Of your screen achievements, which makes the the steppes of communist Europe or Yugoslavia. most important statement and what is that statement? SOF: What kinds of films do you see yourself making in MILIUS: Apocalypse Now makes the most important five years? statement. It has a raw honesty. It says, "Usten, if MILIUS: I'd really like to do more American history. you're going to do something, do it fully and take I'd like to do a trilogy on the western experience. It responsibility - call it what it is." Brando says it seems to be a large part of what has made us what we through Kurtz, "Have you ever considered real are and I would love to do a movie on the early Ken­ freedom? Freedom from the thoughts of others? tucky phase of western expansion, the settling of Ken­ Freedom from yourself? ' ' tucky and Ohio during the revolutionary war and after-

58 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/SO wards. I'm eager to do a fi lm on mountain men. I don't throats quickly, without passion. To live here, I main­ know what the third one would be, maybe a story on tain a strict sense of honor, my own personal Bushido. young Teddy Roosevelt. As the British say, in the ju11gle you have to dress for I don't have much interest in doing contemporary dinner, the deeper the jungle the better you dress. drama or science fiction. If they said, "What do you really want to do? Here's all the money in the world to SOF: What is the Bushido code? make anything you want," I'd probably make the MILIUS: The code of the Samurai: that you live by Genghis Khan·story since I'm a mongologist. your word, that your soul is as good as the steel of your SOF: You are a mongologist? sword. You maintain a sense of loyalty to your beliefs MILIUS: Yes, I study Mongols. I consume material on and to your friends and to those that you're working the Mongol invasions of Europe and the Near East. I'm for. fascinated with Mongols. I've always thought I am a You protect your integrity because without it you reincarnated Mongol - although many people in Holly­ have nothing. I know many people here that are fabu­ wood think I'm an unreincarnated Mongol. lously rich and are searching for some new form of co­ SOF: As a politically conservative writer and director, caine. What's the point of having a lot of money if you what is it like to live and work in Tinseltown, the need a drug to enjoy it? If you don't have integrity, you foremost bastion of tooth-fairy liberals? don't have anything. MILIUS: It's frustrating at times and it certainly has Everyone looks at Hollywood as Tinseltown, like it's been difficult for me. The critics take their toll: they've not a place where one does serious work. I have always attacked my work viciously. I generally get ignored by taken work seriously and done it seriously and done it Hollywood. I've learned to live with it, though. They for different motives . People would come up and say, love to talk about their human rights and their under­ "Well, how did you know to write Jeremiah Johnson? standing of human liberties, yet they are just as harsh on You picked it well because it was a big hit and you cash­ opposing philosophies as they accuse the McCarthyites ed in on the ecology. craze." That's insane. I wrote of having been. I haven't been as affected by it as I Jeremiah Johnson because I liked the story. I was in­ might have been because they consider me a colorful terested in that character. I was interested in mountain primitive. I hear about some actors' group that hates my men, in people living in the jungle, so to speak, and fac­ films because I supposedly injured a horse in a stunt. Or ing the same things they face in Apocalypse Now. I get blamed for killing the water buffalo in Apocalypse I haven't written anything just to make cash. I Now. Or I meet someone and they say, "Well, you're wouldn't know how. Do the best work you know how to not at all what I expected. I thought you'd be festooned do. That's your reward. If they drum you out of the with grenades and knives ." They consider me a crazy business - the hell with it - the hell with them. and there's something colorful about somebody who's It's like a painter trying to second-guess the public, crazy. saying, "I'll paint a lot of beautiful flowers ." You 're The critics, however, have taken me very seriously never going to be a fine painter doing that. And that's and think I'm a dangerous man. The only place I've what we are, we're artisans. We're fascinated with really suffered from being a political conservative is in work; that's what artisans are. We're just trying to build interviews and in criticism. something that is pleasing to us, for the sake of work­ A Hollywood liberal has no regrets about the most manship, form and content. We're not trying to save the heinous, fascistic idea, as long as it will sell a lot of world. tickets. They'll make movies about anything, if they'll One thing I think is horrifying regarding movie direc­ sell tickets - greed is king here. It's the jungle. tors is that everybody -feels that they've got to make a Everything you've ever heard about Hollywood is pro­ statement about something; they've got to propagan­ bably more colorful and romantic than it is. It's worse dize. Though my movies have been accused of being than any of the stuff you've heard about it, except it's right-wing, I don't think any of them are propaganda. ultimately boring. These people go at each other's They've always had two sides to the story; they've SEPTEMBER/BO SOI.DIER 01' FORTUNE 59 shown as much fault with what I believe in as what I'm kind of thing. I remember reading a review of the Olym­ against. pic:; where they refer to the shotgun events as something SOF: What is your favorite film? befitting a Mafia hitrman, not something that should be MILIUS: The Seven Samurai by Kurosawa. in the Olympic games. Isn't it peculiar that it's regarded SOF: Why is it your favorite? that way in this country whereas in other countries our MILIUS: It embodies most of what I love in movies. It prowess with guns is what they used to like best about has a kind of romantic vision. It contains different us? philosophies and human experiences that are inter­ SOF: I noticed that you have many pictures of John esting, wonderful, extraordinary. It's a visual ex­ Wayne, both in your offices and in your home. What is perience. It's almost unmatched by other films. Its rela­ their significance? tionships, the sense of why people do things in that film, MILIUS: I really liked John Wayne. Yc;m asked me are great. You really like the people, you like the what my favorite movie was and I said The Seven characters and you like why they do things. That film Samurai. You notice I have pictures of Toshiro Mifune gives you a way to live. I've seen it about 50 times, and around too. Toshiro Mifune and John Wayne are inter­ it's still as good. I've got a tape of it at home. changeable. They represent, as screen personae, many SOF: What did yo'u think of the American version, The of the same values. My second favorite movie, The Magnificent Seven? Searchers, I've seen more than 50 times. John Ford 's MILIUS: It was good too. It was nowhere near the work is just as influential as Kurosawa's to me. The other; it doesn 't have the depth, but it was still a fi ne directors that influenced me most and continue to in­ movie and at the time I loved it. If I saw it now, I fluence me most are Ford, Kurosawa, Sam Fuller and wouldn't like it so much. It's a good romp where the David Lean. There're certain similarities in their work. original is a masterpiece. John Wayne has become an institution. Wayne once SOF: The theme in most of your films is that of a rug­ did a nice thing for me. My oldest son's name is Ethan ged individualist battling darkness and negativity. Is and he's named after the character that Wayne played in that autobiographical? The Searchers and I asked John Wayne's · son if he MILIUS: I don't know if it's autobiographical. I think would get me a picture of his father signed from The it applies to all of us, particularly to Americans. The Searchers and send it to me. My son has it on his wall. It best part of Americans is their ability to take things on, says, "To Ethan, grow up strong." do them alone, get them done, face challenges on their SOF: What were some of your favorite characters in own . From the time you're born, at least in my genera­ Apocalypse Now and what made them your favorites? tion, you were always taught to go out on your own, to MILIUS: The central character, Willard, is one. I think fend for yourself.. You want the pleasure and pride of Marty Sheen did it the best it could be done. I think he knowing that whatever you did, you did by yourself. We did it better than it was written. He was the classic don't say that everything's in the hands of Allah. We observer, the man who had gone further than maybe he say everything's in our hands. I think that's an should have. At the beginning of the movie he opened a American characteristic. Look at the people in United crack into a truth. Willard wouldn't be anything if it States history that we admire, from Daniel Boone to wasn't for the war. And that was the whole point: that Thomas Edison. It's almost always the story of a loner. Willard [Marty Sheen] knew all these things. within the It is the one thing we do particularly well - or we did war. If he were home, he'd be a bible salesman or particularly well. something, and desperate and drunk. Hut the war, the SOF: Why do you say did, John? intensity of the situation, afforded him a philosophy MILIUS: It seems that the values we're talking about known to few. have fallen into disfavor in recent years. You can't look Continued on page 83 at the last 20 to 30 years of the country's history without saying that some influences haven't been pumped in. Things started to change after Kennedy was shot. I think you could look at 1963 as a turning point in visible American characteristics. But there's something about John Milius' Americans. You can push Americans so far .... They wife, Celia, don't like being pushed. I think you see that in the coun­ waits turn to shoot. try now. SOF: What are your views on gun ownership, gun registration, the whole right to bear arms issue? MILIUS: I think everything was just fine before 1968. In my community, Hollywood, it's interesting that my wife and I like to shoot skeet and trap; we do it com­ petitively. And people know it. If we went out to play golf or tennis, that would be all right, but if you shoot skeet and trap , a stigma is attached. Recently, I've got­ ten Steve Speilberg and people like that interested in shooting. They shoot a lot with me, but until recently few people in the movie industry would admit to owning a gun or shooting. Bob Stack and I shoot ducks a lot. He was blasted by the press because he went duck shooting and because they said he was a killer - that

60 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO Mother Jones versus John Milius In the September/ October 1979 issue of Mother Jones, Deirdre English reviewed Apocalypse Now. Author English took pot shots at the film and its makers. Two items in English's review particularly upset John Milius. The offending items:

A tale told to Willard by Kurtz in Vietnam and Cambodia have shown the Apocalypse Now - about a hamlet where world their ability to commit acts of the Vietnamese communists cut off the arms genocidal depravity that would be the envy of children who had been given polio of Reinhardt Heidrich. inoculations by American troops - was What always disgusts me about branded "a lie" by English. "Nothing like it impassioned activists is their prevailing can be proved or reasonably inferred to have blindness to the immorality of their own ever occurred at the hands of the North cause. It is blindness that makes them less Vietnamese or National Liberation Front than human - automatons for a dogma - cadres. No army that was ever even rumored spilling forth the party prattle in spite of all to do such a thing could win a guerrilla evidence to the contrary. war,'' wrote English. · The article goes further, reaching the point The other item to which Milius objected of total hypocrisy when it states that we (the was English's claim that " .. . the United U.S.) have never lived up to the terms of the States was committed, in signing the Paris Paris Peace Agreement, "to provide Peace Agreement, to provide reconstruction reconstructive aid for Vietnam. " The aid for Vietnam, and that we have never agreement was signed in 1973 and in 1975 honored that agreement." the forces of Communist North Vietnam When Milius-sent Mother Jones a salvo of invaded the south and settled matters by fire his own invective, the periodical reproduced and sword. Some peace agreement. only part of the letter. ·To set the record Ms. English is sanctioning a lie. If there is Straight, Milius' missive follows . Note that one thing that Francis Coppola and I tried to those sections appearing in italics were do - it was to make an anti-lie movie. deleted by Mother Jones. The editorial Kurtz, for all his failings, tells the truth, choice on what to delete is interesting. looks at the truth and lets the truth destroy Dear Mother: him. He at least has a glimmering of an ethic Your recent article on "Apocalypse Now": for which he dies. You have no real ethic, (Sept.-Oct. , '79) is somewhat erroneous. but the pretense of one. Since I wrote the original screenplay, perhaps I went back and told my good friend who I could shed some light on the subject. lived through the ''polio story'' that your ·The central incident which you refer to as magazine didn't believe him. He was in a "fabricated act of Vietnamese terror" is Special Forces at the time of the incident and indeed true. But rather than argue with you that village and those kids were his about its veracity, I would rather point out responsibility. I might add that he took a how interesting it is that you think this act just revenge for the act, as would be could not have occurred. expected of a soldier. He didn't seem too bothered that Ms. English didn't believe him, Certainly in any war, acts of extreme he rather expected that. He knew that her brutality are committed by all the heart will not allow her to admit a simple combatants. Civilians have suff ered these truth that encompasses her as surely as the acts since time immemorial. To refuse to rest of us. That truth is that man didn't accept that your vauntedly humane descend from the heavens, he descended Vietnamese freedom fighters are incapable of from the trees. such behavior is not only self-deception - it Sincerely, is insane. History has already proved y9u John Milius wrong. The enlightened peoples' regimes of A-Team Productions SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 61 EAGLES Front Aviation Group from the 7th however, concluded that neither govern­ Continued from page 55 Squadron's airfield. ment would be able to convince its -respec­ Capt. Kelly, the observer training to be tive population of the clear danger in a pilot, volunteered on the 14th to fly as time . . major and given command of the squad­ an observer for the Polish 21st Born ber The Kosiuszko Squadron, with half its ron, which retreated to its 13th airfield in Squadron which occupied the same field members missing, KIA or wounded, call­ the war, when Major Fauntleroy, whose as the 7th. He volunteered again on the ed upon friends in the U.S. for replace­ heroism and outstanding staff work were 15th, but his luck ran out. His two-seater ment pilots. Almost overnight, 23 ex-U.S. well appreciated by the Poles, was pro­ airplane disappeared. Weeks later, the aviator volunteers were found. But the moted to lieutenant colonel in the Polish squadron received confirmation from State Department refused to issue them air force and given command of the avia­ Polish peasants that the plane was down­ passports. tion group facing the Russian Southern ed and the crew killed. By 25 July, the 20 Polish air force Front - a force of about four squadrons, On the same day, on a strafing run, squadrons had only 31 airworthy aircraft including the 7th. Fauntleroy received a bullet wound in the to cover two major fronts. Yet these few leg and was out of flying action for a aircraft, including the Kosciuszko Surrounded By Cossacks while. Buck Crawford was promoted to Squadron's seven, continued to play a key captain and squadron commander to re­ role in opposition to the Bolshevik On 13 July, Maj. Cooper was shot place Cooper. Fauntleroy took over the steamroller. By this time, aviation was down on a reconnaissance mission. He full-time duties of running the Group. relied upon both as the eyes of the Polish was surrounded by a band of Cossack The pilots wanted their luck to change. army - replacing the role previously oc­ cavalrymen from Budyenny's Konarmiya, cupied by cavalry - and as a delaying or whose riders rode tight circles around Lucky Landing blocking force against Bolshevik ad­ him, sabers drawn, ready to toy with their vances. captive before killing him . The Konar­ On the 18th, Crawford flew out to at­ Many Polish army units owed their ex­ miya hated the American squadron and tack a Konarmiya cavalry patrol with Lt. · istence to the timely intervention of avia­ let it be known they would kill any Edward Corsi. While attacking, a bullet tion units, and their observation of and American officer flying for Poland. punctured Crawford's main gas tank. He warning against the movement of large Knowing that Bolshevik propaganda in ­ switched to a small, gravity-fed reserve Red Army forces. Airplanes were fre­ sisted that enlisted men were workers and tank, but the engine sputtered and quit. quently thrown into major battles as fly­ were thus the object of the Red Revolu­ Forced to land, he dead-sticked his plane ing machine-gun and bomb platforms to tion, Cooper displayed his badly scarred in the middle of a wheatfield. As soon as disrupt Red attacks, enabling the still scat­ hands, burned when he was shot down in he touched down, a group of 20 to 30 tered Polish forces to retreat in good the Great War and captured by the Ger­ Cossacks came out of a nearby wooded order· instead of being annihilated mans. He hoped to convince the Cossack area at foll gallop. He jumped from his piecemeal. leader he was an American worker forced airplane and ran for his life, as Corsi flew Flying units, such as· the Kosciuszko against his will into the American forces above the scattered Cossacks, trying to Squadron, became centers of resistance, and sent to Poland to fight for the slow them with machine-gun fire but with and their bases, behind Polish lines, re­ bourgeoisie. limited effect. The horsemen drew nearer mained until the rest of the Polish army The Cossack hesitated in bringing down his squadron commander and friend. streamed by. Airfields, still located next to his heavy saber. His commissars told the As Crawford ran, he heard his Balilla's railroads, kept all equipment possible in men they were fighting specifically for the engine cough, choke and sputter back to boxcars for immediate evacuation. The workers in other nations, and were to cap­ life. Apparently a vapor lock or piece of Kosciuszko Squadron stayed until its air­ ture workers alive for re-indoctrination dirt, after blocking the reserve fuel line, field was attacked, then it moved, the roll­ whenever possible. If he killed Cooper, had jarred loose when he landed. His hot ing stock going down the railroad while the Cossack sergeant would have to an­ engine kicked over and self-started. the planes flew to a preselected site behind swer to a commissar. Crawford quickly about-faced and sprin­ ·Polish lines. The signal to move was two Cooper was stripped and searched while ted back to his slowly taxiing aircraft, machine-gun bursts, usually given by a being questioned by the Cossacks. He was while the cavalrymen, having seen the pilot who saw cavalry deploying nearby. wearing U.S. Army surplus undershorts airplane start up, raced to cut their prize Five minutes later, the unit would be with the name "Cpl. Frank Mosher" sten­ off. gone. ciled on them. He knew the Russians Crawford reached the plane ahead of knew him and Fauntleroy and his story his pursuers and dived into the cockpit for Last-Ditch Defense would be found out if he used his name, the controls. Bouncing over irrigation so when they asked his name, he replied, ditches and slowed by heavy new wheat, The Polish army's retreat halted before "Frank Mosher," and pointed to the of­ he raced for life as he tried to get his reluc­ Warsaw in the north and Lvov in the ficial stencil on his undershorts. He was tant bird airborne. The plane finally south. Here Pilsudski tried to reorganize taken to a Russian concentration camp to leaped into the air a few feet above his his scattered, straggling army for one last begin a day-to"clay struggle for survival. angry saber-waving pursuers, smashing its stand for Polish independence. His Fair­ The 7th Squadron knew only that landing gear against a fence. weather allies, the French and the British, Cooper was overdue from a mission over Corsi signaled that he had to fly on to secretly tried to pressure him into sur­ enemy lines, a common occurrence - the· field. Crawford, short of fuel, crash­ rendering, hoping the Red Army would be pilots frequently had to put their planes landed in a safe area where he was picked satisfied with its victory - a grim prelude down, out of fuel, before they could reach up by automobile later. His escape gave to their reaction to the threatened inva­ the field, sending word by messenger or the squadron its morale boost. sion of Czechoslovakia 17 years later by coming themselves a day or two later to While the 7th's luck was improving, so Nazi Germany, when that nation was get a party of squadron members to drive was Poland's. The French government, forced by England and France to yield out to repair the plane or deliver the need­ now aware of the threat to Germany and without a struggle. ed fuel. France from the Red Army, sent a mili­ Although newspapers throughout the Fauntleroy was in the area when tary mission to Warsaw. Both France and world predicted the eminent fall of the Cooper disappeared, and he rejoined the Great Britain hinted that military Polish government and the defeat of the squadron roster to fill in until Cooper assistance in the form of troops might be Polish army within days, the Polish peo­ could be found, running the Southern on the way. The U.S. State Department, ple rallied in Poland's grimmest hour 62 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO since the 1796 partition. Factory workers, the 7th Squadron. But he continued the arrived to fly for the 7th Squadron. While ignoring their communist labor leaders' attack for five days, moving his forces far­ checking out in the unfamiliar Balilla, propaganda, flocked, by the tens of thou­ ther away from the northern front in the Capt. T .V. McCallum was unable to re­ sands, to fight the hated Russian im­ process. cover from a power dive and crashed, dy­ perialists. ing instantly - the squadron's third Women, children and non-combatant Charging The Gap death. men were put to work building breast­ An armistice went into effect on 18 Oc­ works, obstacles and trenches, and bat­ tober 1920. talions of women soldiers were recruited Pilsudski's concentrated forces charged For the next eight months, negotiators and trained to fight in artillery, machine­ into the gap, wreaking terrible revenge on attempted to conclude a peace treaty with gun and rifle brigades. A surge of na­ th·e left bank of the northern army in front the Russian government. The Kosiuszko tionalism swept the country. Masses were of Warsaw. The Poles broke through, Squadron remained in existence until ear­ said in every church for divine deliverance then turned north, rolling up Tukachev­ ly May 1921, when the treaty was at last from the·forces which destroyed churches sky's entire army from its unprotected signed. As the squadron prepared to de­ wherever they went, and the devout Poles flank. Units fanned out to cut off retreat mobilize, it received word that Maj. saw themselves as front-line fighters routes from the rear and destroyed the Merian Cooper was alive and would against atheist hordes about to sweep northern front of the Red Army in four return to the unit. Europe. days. By the time the Polish forces reach­ After convincing his captors he was ed Gen. Ghai's cavalry corps on the north Cpl. Frank Mosher, Cooper was taken to Reds Fall Out flank of the northern front, Trotsky and a concentration camp where, with other Tukhachevsky's Red Army creased to ex­ Polish POWs, Russian counter-revolu­ ist and retreat routes were cut off. ''Ghai tionaries, political prisoners and religious On the other side, a curious event, soon Khan's Golden Horde" fled into German leaders, he fo ught for nine months to sur­ to have decisive significance in the con­ East Prussia, where authorities disarmed vive. After nearly dying of typhus, he duct of Poland's last stand, occurred. The and interned it for the remainder of the nursed himself back to health, then Bolshevik southern front, headed by war. escaped with two Polish POWs, returning Commissar Josef Stalin and spearheaded In front of Lvov, the fighting was con­ to the squadron on 10 May. The next day by the powerful Konarmiya, ignored ducted even more ferociously. On 18 it disbanded, with Cooper officially listed orders from the northern front. August, the 14 available P AF planes flew as squadron commander. Tukhachevsky and Northern Front 72 sorties, dropping 17 ,637 pounds of All members of the squadron during the Commissar Trotsky ordered the southern bombs and firing 27 ,000 rounds of Battle of Warsaw were eventually award­ front to move closer to the northern front machine-gun bullets into masses of ed Poland's highest award for valor for in preparation of the final assault on War­ cavalry forces attacking the city. their individual and combined efforts. A saw. Budyenny's wide-ranging cavalry ar­ One chronicler later noted: "When monument was placed over the graves of my was needed to cover the northern bombs and ammunition were used up, the Kelly, Graves and McCallum, honoring their contribution to Poland. front's flank during the attack. But Bud­ aircraft kept circling over the enemy and yenny and Stalin ignored the orders, ploughed into the mass of cavalry with This small band of American soldiers of fortune, numbering less than a dozen at repeated daily for three or four days; their undercarriages, returning home any given time, may have changed the orders confirmed by the Politburo itself covered with blood." course of world history. It is improbable when Trotsky's orders had no apparent Fauntleroy's group of four squadrons that they foresaw the impact they wo uld effect. limited the Konarmiya to an advance on tack against Lvov, perhaps because of its front of only two miles in one day. have on history, and few others in the personal animosity between Stalin and After the 19th, the Polish army turned world know of their contribution. The Trotsky and overconfidence from the con­ its attention from Warsaw to aid besieged monument over the graves of the dead tinued retreat of the Polish army. Lvov. In four days, facing an army of Kosciuszko Squadron members was de­ In answer to telegrams directing the more than 200,000 combat soldiers in the stroyed by the Red Army in World War II southern front to break off the attack north, the Polish army inflicted more than after Poland was occupied. against Lvov to support the Warsaw at­ 150,000 casualties, including 65,000 cap­ The Polish-Russian War of 1920 has no tack, Stalin pointed out the Polish air tured, 30,000 interned in Prussia, and place in American history books, while force was making its last stand in Lvov most of the rest wounded or dead. Bud­ Russian-dominated schools in Poland in­ and he had to destroy it, citing casualties yenny was forced to break off his attack sure that Poles will not be taught about inflicted by the Polish air force, especially and retreat himself. that particular phase of history. from the 7th Squadron, as justification. What happened to these Americans? Pilsudski paid attention to the attack on Merian Cooper became a brigadier gen­ Lvov and formulated his own strategy. Russian Defeat eral in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Little is The Polish Sixth Army, centered around known about the others, who disappeared Lvov, was to try to keep Budyenny tied The Polish army pursued his fo rces and into American society, to live out their down, while Pilsudski maneuvered other the remnants of the northern Red Army. lives in obscurity. troops between the southern and northern The Russians attempted to halt the rout fronts. Special orders went out to and consolidate their forces, but the Poles CREDITS Fauntleroy's group of four squadrons, the smashed into them once again, inflicting only air forces facing Budyenny. It was to another 50,000 casualties in one day's SOF thanks Ross S. Fenn and attack him with every means at its disposal fighting. Budyenny's Konarmiya was en­ Robert F. Karolevitz, authors of Flight of Eagles, and Brevet Press (Sioux for the next few days, beginning 15 circled at Zamosc and decisively defeated. August. The U.S. State Department, apprised of Falls, S.D.), publishers of this history Over the next few days, the 7th put the extent of the Polish "Miracle of War­ of the Americ_an Kosciuszko Squad­ everything it had in the fight. At one saw," as the devout Poles called it, ron, for permission to reprint all pho­ tographs and art used with this article. point, Budyenny complained to higher relented and allowed the first of several headquarters that a divisional attack was American volunteers to sail to Poland in stopped in its tracks by the Polish air time to join the Kosciuszko Squadron in force alone - the majority of attacks the pursuit and final battles. On 24 coming from the tenacious Americans of August, the first of these reinforcements SEPTEMBER/BO SOLDIEll OF FOllTUNE 63 VOLUNTEERS AMERICAN "That's toilet paper," says Ferguson, Continued from page 41 himself a Christian. "A Bible's a Bible NEEDED when you love the individual, give it to by the press whom he did much to an­ him personally and get to know his fir st "BARRED forever" from Thai- tagoni ze. Even Ferguson calls the self­ name." land, Gary Ferguson is now look­ titled Dr. Prince Norodom Soryavong There are other Khmer Serei camps In ing for highly-trained volunteers who "arrogant and egotistical." Rumors Cambodia besides Reahou. Some. like are willing to risk their lives to work abounded that the "Mad Prince" was former Cambodian Premier Son Sann's in with the anti-communist Khmer Serei. killed, but Ferguson claims he was the Cardamon Mountains, are run sound­ There is no pay, but Ferguson pro­ reassigned to organize resistance in the in­ ly. Others are run by unstable oppor­ mises the satisfaction of helping the terior. tunists. · "beautiful Khmer race" is more than Whatever the fate of the "Mad At the moment, it appears unlikely that enough remuneration. Prince," fighting and quarreling between the Khmer Serei will play a significant part Especially needed are doctors, rival Khmer Serei groups is all too com­ in evolving Cambodia's future . Unfor­ medics, engineers, carpenters and mon. Though there was no fighting inside tunately, those decisions are being made teachers. Also welcome are those with the camp when Ferguson was there, Rea­ elsewhere. previous Southeast Asian or com­ hou was constantly struggling to keep its For the most part, after years of parable experience. unity. genocidal ravages of Pol Pot, followed by For those who qualify, Ferguson "It's an anything-can-happen at­ the Vietnamese invasion, Cambodians are says he will pay all travel expenses and mosphere when you have 300,000 people sick of fighting. But resistance to the help make arrangements for transport in such primitive conditions and you open Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese, who to Khmer Serei camps. Once there, a your doors to everyone," says Ferguson. have long been traditional enemies of support group will supply medical Personal jealousies or slights among the Cambodia, will continue, even if most equipment, tools and other necessities. province chiefs who have their own armed Cambodians simply want to work their Ferguson stresses that he wants following can often escalate into ugly farms unmolested by anyone. quality and quantity. He wants no scenes. Disagreement among Khmer Serei But right now they are a people des­ "flakes" - only mature individuals leaders as to how to deal with the Khmer perately in need of help - at the very least who are capable of keeping a low pro­ Rouge, who are also fighting the Viet­ they need food, medical care and security. file. namese, is another major cause of strife. There is no doubt that Gary Ferguson's Those selected will be going under Nog Samet camp to the north, for exam­ heart is in the right place and no doubt the auspices of a non-profit relief ple, allows the Khmer Rouge refuge. But that much of his anger and frustration at organization founded by Ferguson in Van Saren draws the line on any com­ the bureaucracy that surrounds the inter­ August 1979 and involved solely with munist, though infiltration of Khmer national relief effort is justified. Asian refugees both in the U.S. and Rouge agents is a constant security threat. Ferguson blames the United States for Southeast Asia. On 19 March, a pincer attack on Rea­ the situation in Indochina today: "In It was set up because Ferguson says hou by an estimated 600 non-communist Vietnam, we were the answer to the cancer he doesn't "have faith in governments guerrillas left 46 dead - most of them of communism. We descended with our or the United Nations, but I do have civilians caught in the crossfire - before scalpel to cut out the cancer, and halfway faith in people." Van Saren reestablished control. On 10 through the operation we left them Its philosophy is simple, as Chris April, the camp was attacked a second bleeding on the table." Oberg, the group's national director, time by guerrillas, causing about 40 Though Ferguson is not going to finish puts it: "We try to avoid the deaths, scattering tens of thousands of the operation, he is dedicating this portion bureaucracy and plug the holes left by people and damaging hundreds of huts. of his life to stitching the wounds. For as other organizations." This attack was reportedly led by Ong an American and an individual he is heavi­ Those interested can send a resume Chan "Mit" [Mit means comrade] Don, ly burdened by the plight of these people. or a letter stating their qualifications to an ex-Khmer Rouge officer who operates He himself can't return to Thailand but if Gary Ferguson, care of Soldier Of For­ from Nong Samet. With the devastation he had not been deported he says, "The Lune. For those who apply and who are of this attack and the danger of monsoon only way I would have left is if they didn't chosen, SOF advises them to look at flooding it is likely that most of Reahou want me or they were free." the situation carefully before they will be relocated further north on higher commit. SOF has no knowledge of ground. Continued on page 86 how the Thai government will react. But Ferguson's battles were of a verbal Chum Ron, leader of Khmer Serei Gary Ferguson (white 'hat) with nature, as when actress Tippi Hedren, women soldiers. refugees in Indonesia. trailed by a film crew from Food For The Hungry, visited Reahou. "What are you doing?" asked Ferguson. "We are evaluating the camp," was the answer. Ferguson said it would be the last time they would be allowed in the camp unless they brought aid instead of cam­ eras. "There are enough pictures of suf­ fering Cambodians to blanket the world," Ferguson told them, because he resented the camp being used as a backdrop for fund raising when proportionately so little of the aid gets across the border to Reahou. Food For The Hungry did leave something useful, at least to help with the sanitation campaign - four cartons of Bibles.

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HOW TO KILLV LIVING IN TROUBLED LANDS: by John Minnery The Complete Guide To The author combines solid historical Personal Security Abroad data with keenly imaginative scenarios by C. Patrick Collins to produce volume five of this infamous A life-saving security guide for series. Minnery grimly explains how a American professionals living and new wave terrorist need not be a so­ working overseas. C. Patrick Collins, a phisticated nuclear physicist to wreak former CIA official, is a practical writer radioactive havoc with homemade with a practical background. While atomic weapons. Detailed information working for the government, he helped on building the "Dragonfly," hand­ "create personal security programs for held, magnetometer-sanitary rocket Americans going overseas as repre­ gun. Presents a provocative lesson in sentatives of the U.S. Now the civil ia n self-defense - against attack dogs. worker can learn how to create his own "Eye-opening" tactics against night­ overseas security prog ra m, from a true vision sniper equipment. Actual pho­ expert. This book is not intended for tos of a "Flying Shotgun," WW I gaunt­ the casual overseas vacationer. Rather, let dagger, the SOE pengun, mantraps, it is a practical guide geared for techni­ crossbows, and much more! S'h X 8'h, cians, military personnel, executives, softcover, illus., 85 pp., ISBN 0-87364- and other professionals who must re­ 201-5. $5.00 SURVIVAL DIGEST side in countries with questionable Compiled By Paladin Press security and swiftly changing all iances. The most complete resource book The author's security progra ms is ever published for the modern survival­ above all pragmatic, straight-forward, ist! Fans of Life After Doomsday and and easy-to-implement. It does not Survival Poaching will definitely want entail huge investments for body­ to add this one to their survival librar­ guards, weapons, and armored cars. It ies. Includes concise reviews and bib­ does require self-confidence and a liographies of the most important sur­ sound knowledge of what you wi ll be vival literature, listings of practical up against. Common sense precau­ equipment suppliers, PLUS state-of­ tions - rather than armor. guns, and the-art articles by the best survival wri ­ chronic paranoia - are the answer, ters in America: Mel Tappan, Ragnar according to the author. Collins' sug­ Benson, Bruce Clayton, Ph.D., Joel gestions are time-tested and proven Kkousen, and more! A virtual Whole every day in some of the most danger­ Earth Catalog for survivalists, retreat­ ous areas of the world. S'h X 81h, hard­ ers, and homesteaders. If it concerns cover, 200 pp., ISBN 0-87364-198-1 . self-sufficiency, it's in this book! $10.95 Names and addresses of over 400 sup­ Available November 1980 pliers, with descriptions of their pro­ ducts and services, are provided in si x easy-access sections, from home­ steading and city survival to building and alternative energy. Critiques doz­ ens of useful books on timber framing, foraging, farming, woodcraft, hunting, TANGSOO DO energy efficiency, and even first aid. Al I The Way of the China Hand new articles, written especia lly for Sur­ by Hank Murphy vival Digest, cover the topics of home 5th Degr,ee Dan Hank Murphy pre­ remodeling for self-sufficiency, psy­ sents the finest book ever printed on chology of survival, the right all-terrain The Way of The China Hand. After vehicles for the mobile family, the true Korea was liberated from Japanese adventures of a modern mountain man, occupation in 1945, Mr. Hwang Kee and firearm selection for retreat de­ founded Moo Duk Kwan - The Insti­ fense. Survival Digest is a fascinating, tute of Martial Virtue. Murphy is per­ practical resource bQok , compliment­ haps the leading American proponent ed by etchings and advice dating back of Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do. Flexi­ to the turn of the century. Even in­ bility and stretching exercises, stances, cludes plans for making old-fashioned basic motions, sparring and kicking wooden toys that can keep the kids techniques, and forms like Giecho busy during the long wait. 8'h X 11 , Hyung II Bu and Giecho Hyung Sahm hardcover, photos, charts and etch­ Bu are illustrated with great action ings, 240 p., ISBN 0-87364-199-x "You guys ara rock solid." photographs. S'h X 8'h, softcover, illus., $14.95 112 pp., ISBN 0-87364-202-3. $8.00 Available December 1980

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POLICE GUIDE TO BOMB SEARCH TECHNIQUES by Frank A. Moyer No law enforcement or security or­ ganization should be without this au­ thoritative operational manual. Police Guide To Bomb Search Techniques tells the law officer how to deal with everything from a bomb threat to a post-explosion incident investigation. Frank Moyer fs an ex-BATF agent with ove r 40 yea rs ex perience in the tension-packed world of bomb investi­ gations. In this authoritative volume he shares his wealth of practical knowl­ edge with law enforcement officials, industrial and executive security agents, and any individual concerned with the ever-growing bomb problem. Covers: Room/ Bu ilding Search Tech­ HOME WORKSHOP SILENCERS I niques; Vehicle/ Aircraft Search; Bomb It's finally here! The first complete set Scene Investigation; Blast/Pressure "Yours is one company I will certainly continue to do of working machinist's drawings show­ Effects; Do's and Don't's for Suspected business with. It is the best of its type in existence. ing step-by-step construction of three Bombs; Military, Commercial and Your service is nothing short of phenomenal. Again. I thank you for the prompt and courteous service I different firearm silencers! All draw­ Improvised Explosive Compounds; have received. " ings are done to scale, and are of abso­ Telephone Bomb Threats; and much H.P .. Louisiana lutely superb quality. Over 50 9 x 12 more c ritical information for any machinist's drawings are presented. potential target of a bombing. B'h x 11, This beautiful large format edition 200 pp., softcover. $12.95 clearly details all construction and op­ eration procedures for a smg silencer, a pistol silencer, and a simplified smg EVERYMAN'S GUIDE TO expedient silencer. Without doubt, FOREIGN TAX HAVENS these are the highest quality, most pre­ by Adam Starchild cise silencer designs available any­ Survive the monetary chaos that where at any price. Compare and see many experts predict will strangle for yourself! Historians will recall that America's economy by 1985. Starchild the famed Dutch underground armor­ explains how foreign tax havens are ers of WWII fabricated many silenced the key to future economic survival. weapons for their behind-the-lines ops According to the author, his informa­ against the Nazis. If our own nation is tion "is not intended as a spur in evad­ ever invaded in the future, silenced ing taxation, but as a guide in avoiding firearms will certainly play an impor­ taxation. Tax evasion is illegal; tax tant role in resisting the enemy. Of avoidance is legal." This authoritative course, Paladin Press unconditionally guide dispels common myths and GET EVEN: guarantees your satisfaction with this strips the mysteries and confusion THE COMPLETE BOOK intriguing, all new book. WARNING: which surround the popularly-miscon­ OF DIRTY TRICKS severe state and federal regulations strued notion of a tax haven. Places The · latest word iri do-it-yourself outlaw the possession of silencers un­ like Bermuda, Hong Kong, Barbados, "justice" for everyman makes the other less an appropriate license is obtained. and Switzerland can be much more harrassment books look like a Sunday Home Workshop Silencers I is for ref­ than vacation spots - they are havens school picnic. The Complete Book of erence and historical purposes only. where income taxes can be avoided Dirty Tricks teaches you how to get Be warned! 9 x 12, softcover, illus., 72 completely or reduced drastically. For even whether wronged by an enemy, pp., ISBN 0-87364-193-0 $12.00 example, in the Bahamas there are no victimized by a credit card company, or income taxes, no corporate taxes, no just ripped off by any number of capital gains or withholding taxes, and obnoxious individuals and menacing no estate duties! Read about this and organizations. The methods range much more in Everyman's Guide to from simple pranks to sophisticated . Foreign Tax Havens - not for million­ techniques of devastation. "George aires only. 5V2 X B'h, softcover, 90 pp., Hayduke" is a master of revenge whose ISBN 0-87364-203-1. $6.00 wisdom wil,I help put you on top of any '!,HOME Available October 1980 situation where you formerly fe lt help­ WORKSHOP less. The book is brimming with anec­ SILENCERS I dotes describing ingenious tactics that have been successfully employed by :::J "/ am ve ry pleased with the efficiency and prompt­ ness with which you attend to your customers. It is veteran tricksters. For entertainment really fantastic." purposes only! 51/ 2 x av,, hardcover, 190 J. 0., Nigeria pp. $9.95

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THE SURVIVOR I, II, Ill, & IV SURVIVAL POACHING by Kurt Saxon by Ragnar Benson The Survivor is a goldmine of ideas Here is Paladin's most unusual yet concerning survival, science and purely useful book of the new year. mechanics. Each volume comprises Gives practical information on collect­ twelve consecutive issues of Kurt Sax­ ing large or small numbers of wild on's we/I-known survival magazine of game under virtually any circumstan­ the same name. They provide you with ces. The methods and traps described common sense instructions on how to by Benson are known only to one become self-sufficient under the most Indian tribe and a few oldtimers. Ben­ adverse conditions. The " how-to" arti­ son's uncle and teacher was a member cles in these volumes were gleaned of this tribe; Benson is an oldtimer now from late 19th century publications, with 40 years of poaching experience before the modern rise of big busi­ behind him. He tells you how to get a ness and government. 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HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR AUTO MA TIC & CONCEALABLE DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE FIREARMS VOL. II, THE HANDGUN DESIGN BOOK, VOL. II by Bill Holmes Offers ten new firearm designs for The complete home workshop guide the home gunsmith or machinist. Three to making your own handgun. Offered of the designs cover the selective fire are two complete firearms designs. one modification of the Colt .45 191 1A1, the for a semi of full automatic pistol, the Heckler & Koch 91-93, and the Win­ other for a single shot. falling bloc'. chester Model 64 .22. The other handgun. As with the first volume in designs present unusual improvised this series, the author has written in a weapons, with the home armorer in clear, simple style. In addition to mind. These include the Revolver explaining how each part and section Knife, .22 Knuckle Gun, .12 Gauge of the guns are made, the subjects of Shotgun Pistol, Mini .22 Magnum, heat treatment and bluing are dis­ Front Bolt Action Shotgun, .22 Short cussed thoroughly. Holmes emphas­ Mini Machine Pistol, and two more. The izes the use of improvised materials high quality drawings are each accom­ and suggests many alternative work­ panied by text explaining construction shop gunsmithing tips. 5 '/2 x 8'/2, soft­ and operating details. 8 '/2 x 11 , soft­ cover, photos and diagrams, 144 pp., cover, photos and diagrams, 64 pp., ISBN 0-87364-154-x. $6.00 ISBN 0-87364-177-9. $12.00

QUICK OR DEAD HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR By William L. Cassidy DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE IMPROVISED MODIFIED The most important book on combat VOL. I, THE SUBMACHINE GUN FIREARMS handgunning of the decade! William by Bill Holmes Two Volume Set Cassidy, well known as the editor of First in a series of technically by J. David Truby and John Mlnnery Knife Digest and The Complete Book written books that will enable the of Knife Fighting, presents in Quick or average man to easily and simply Now available as a set, these fantas­ Dead the proven techniques employed build his own weapon with a minimum tic volumes contain photographs of by gunfighters throughout history. of tools, equipment and materi als. some of the most unusual firearms Emphasized are the secrets of effective through building the receiver, breech ever seen. Each volume contains hun­ close-quarters shooting as perfected block, barrel, trigger assembly, stock dreds of photographs collected from by such modern masters of the hand­ and pistol grip, sights and magazine police and government files, firearms gun as Fairbairn, Applegate, Cooper, manufacture'. Heat treatment and experts, collectors, terrorists and crim­ Askin, Jordan, and Fitzgerald. Quick or finishing are also covered. This vital inals from around the world. Both Dead is the one book vital to the needs knowledge is a must for every books, over 280 pp., over 300 illustra­ 6f serious handgunners everywhere. concerned citizen. 5 V2 x 8 1/2, soft tions. $17.95 6 x 9, hardcover, 160 pp., illustrated, cover, photos, machine drawings. ISBN 0-87364-1 48-5. $10.95 ISBN 0-87364-085-3 $6.00

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SPECIAL FORCES THE SCOUT HANDBOOK by Ion L. ldrless Paladin Press once again presents ldriess' rare Australian guer­ SCOUTING AND the long out-of-print Special Forces· rilla manual presents a rare insight into Handbook. This classic contains chap­ one of the most vital functions of small PATROLLING ters on tactics, demolitions, air opera­ unit combat intelligence - scouting. tions, weapons, communications, first Despite the great technical achieve­ Ground Reconnaissance aid , and survival. There are also tech­ ments of modern military science, the Principles and Training niques on unconventional warfare, small unit commander must still rely guerrilla forces' missions, and compo­ heavily on the eyes, ears, and stealth of sition of operational detachments. his scouts. The author presents certain 4V.x5V2, over 200 pp., illustrated, soft­ by Lt Col. Rex Applegate obscure techniques in great detail, (U.S.A.- Rel.) cover. $6.00 techniques that are often overlooked in most U.S. Army and Marine texts on scouting. 4'hx6'h, 123 pp ., softcover. $5 .00

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SLASH AND THRUST HOW TO KILL HOW TO KILL II by John Sanchez by John Minnery by John Mlnnery Knife fighting, and books about this The definitive study of assassination Once again, Minnery doesn't fail to fas­ deadly art, have enjoyed a great re­ techniques. In spite of the rather alarm­ cinate with this unique follow-up to his surgence in popularity lately. However, ing title, How To Kiii is written objec­ controversial first volume. Like Volume until Slash And Thrust, no book ever tively, with an eye to historical One, this edition does not advocate presented a complete, totally practical relevance. The book makes no moral killing; rather, it reveals ten more "les­ knife fighter's training program. That is judgments, but merely describes what sons" employed by infamous assas­ exactly what this book does - tells the has been known for years by the pro­ sins. Rare photos of assassination novice knife fighter how to train himself fessionals who are part of the shadowy weapons are presented, like the CIA to become an expert! The author also world of international intrigue and 9mm zip gun, similar in design and presents many little known, more espionage. As the author states in his concept to the .45 Liberator. The mate­ sophisticated techniques, making this preface, "My only premise is that there rial may shock you, but only because it the ideal selection for novice and are times when one must attack with is true. 5V2 x 8V2 , softcover, illus., 71 pp. expert alike. Covers choosing the mar­ complete ruthlessness and fight with $5.00 tial knife; test cutting; carrying meth­ lethal fury. This fury and ruthlessness ods; complete training program; guard must be harnessed and directed to do and grip positions; slashing and thrusF the gravest possible damage-to kill." ing; human target areas; quick kill The ten " lessons" presented in How To strikes; footwork; deceptive move­ Kill are as authoritative as they are ments, and much more. Gives plans for gruesome and terrifying. 5V2 x 8V2 , soft­ making your own knife shoulder rigs, cover, diagrams , photos. ISBN saving you at least $20! Also tells how 0-87364-003-9. $5.00 to use and throw exotic edged weap­ ons, such as the Shuriken, Shaken, Irish Dart, Chakram, Chinese Cloth Dart, and Hand Quarrels. Illustrated with many line drawings. 5'h x 8V2 , soft­ THE HOW TO KILL Ill cover, illus., 72 pp., ISBN 0-87364- CRIMSON WEB by John Minnery 188-4. $6.00 OF TERROR The third volume in John Minnery's infamous series is as · shockingly GET TOUGH informative as its two companion by Captain W.E. Fairbairn volumes were. Besides documenting Another Paladin first! This long-out­ ten new " lessons" that professional of print book was used to teach the assassins have employed, the author famed British commandos how to includes photos and explanations of destroy the enemy with bare hands. death-dealing devices developed by Fairbairn, who also invented the the O.S.S ., S.O.E., and C.l.A. Such famous Fairbairn Commando Knife, lethal exotica as the Bio-lnoculator, organized and led the feared Shanghai concealed belt firing rig, the killer mike, Riot Squad which suppressed the and the Diefenbaker bomb are Shanghai thugs and terrorists who had presented, many for the first time. earned the gory reputation of being the Learn the true story behind the recent most ruthless assassins on the globe. Bulgarian defector assassinations in Covers all types of unarmed combat London. 5 1/, x 8V2, softcover,. 92 pp., including use of the Fairbairn Com­ THE CRIMSON WEB ISBN 0-87364-156-6. $5.00 mando Knife. It is both a collectors OF TERROR item and a fact-crammed manual that by Robert Chapman Note: No volume in the How To Kill could save your life! 8'hx5'h, 120 pp., Reveals the secret world of today's Series (Volumes I, II , 111 , & IV) is avail­ 140 illus., hard bound . ISBN operating terrorist groups. Robert able in Canada, due to legislation by 0-87364-002-0 $9.95 Chapman is the 27 year CIA veteran the Canadian Solicitor General. responsible for developing many of the INVOLUNTARY REPOSSESSION counter-terrorist programs in opera­ HOw-.:T.O KILL IV or tion today. He draws from his unique by John Minnery IN THE STEAL OF THE NIGHT experience in this critical field , and tells Continues from the point where by John Russell 3 how terrorists operate, and why80 per­ volume three stopped . . an all new Reveals all known methods that cent of all terrorist operations are suc­ addition to the series called "the most th ieves use to steal cars. Originally cessful. Discusses the origins of controversial books ever written." written for auto repossessors, police, modern terrorism, and who the most Gives little known information on the and locksmiths, this unique guide.ena­ likely terrorist victims are. More impor­ assassination techniques employed by bles the reader to open and start any tantly, he explains how to avoid the K.G.B., C.l.A., O.S.E., etc . locked, keyless car in just minutes! becoming a target of these political Minnery's fourth volume also presents This new edition of Involuntary Repos­ killers. Covers the importance of fire­ ten new "lessons" outlining novel ter­ session covers all American cars up to arms training, and defense driving mination methods inspired by the 1979. Subjects explained are pin techniques. Up-to-date information author's long experience in the secur­ tumbler systems, side bar systems, about the PLO, FNLA, Red Brigade, ity field . Some of the many w·eapons impressioning and lock picking, recov­ IRA, Red Army, and many others is pre­ discussed are the Galitski Projector, ery methods, door lock removal, cut­ sented. Chapman also details the crea­ the silent shotgun, tranquilizer dart, ting keys by reading tumblers, ignition tion and operation of an effective venom insertion ring, full auto firearm bypass methods, bypassing locked tilt counter-terrorist program. A definitive conversions, Soviet Squid pistol, Can­ steering wheels, key codes and loca­ and practical study by one of the only nibal throwing knives, etc. Includes tions, tumbler removal , and many true authorities in the field of counter­ dozens of rare photos and diagrams. others. 6 x 9, softcover, illus., 64 pp. terrorism. 5'h x 8'h, hardcover, 160 pp., 5•;, x 8V2, softcover, illus., 88 $10.95 ISBN 0-87364-187-6. $12.95 pp., ISBN 0-87364-176-0. $5.00

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THE PAPER TRIP I & II LIMITED WAR SNIPING SPECIAL FORCES COMBAT by Barry Reid by Pete Senich FIRING TECHNIQUES Changing to a new identity is made Paladin is pleased to present the by Sgt. Frank A. Moyer and simple with the help of these two most complete pictorial history of Robert J. Scroggie new Paper Trip editions. The American modern war sniping ever compiled. Compiled by two Army ordinance· government is presently trying to Limited War Sniping is an extensive e x perts , this definitive volume bureaucratically defeat these books, study of the development of .50 caliber eliminates the mysteries, misconcep­ because the identity changing tech­ sniper rifles. sights, silencers, and am­ tions and myt hs surrounding . the niques they suggest are nearly fool­ munition dating from the first designs effective use of small arms in combat. in WW I to the top-of-the-line XM-21 in proof. The Paper Trip I, a newly revised This invaluable information was version of the original Paper Trip, tells Vietnam. This book stresses the years of testing , the effects of training, and distilled from extensive tests at the all about obtaining alternate forms of the vital role that sniping has played in home of the Green Berets at Ft. Bragg, identification, such as birth certificate, the wars of this century. Well re­ N.C., where over 120 weapons were driver's license, Society Security card, searched, this book is packed with rare evaluated by some of the most know­ credit cards, etc. Makes it possible for military photos that every war his­ ledgeable firearms experts in the you to disappear for good, if desired. tory buff will not want to put down. world! 8 x 11 , clothbound, 120 pp. , 130 Also explains how to change citizen­ 8'hx11 , 150 pp. , over 140 photos, hard­ photos, ISBN 0-87364-010-1. $12.95 ship, avoid creditors, cover bad credit cover $15.95 and arrest records, and establish credit anywhere under your new identity. The Paper Trip II includes everything found in volume I, and more. It divulges var­ ious codes used to key official state and national ID cards, counterfeiting techniques, sources for official seals, state and federal laws governing ID changes, etc. 8V2 x 11 , softco.ver, N.D. Paper Trip I (82 pp.) ...... $12.95 Paper Trip II (160 pp.) ...... $14.95

U.S. ARMY SNIPER TRAINING MANUAL With the help of this "sniper's bible," the famed U.S. Army snipers in Vietnam killed 1187 VC in one five month period alone. Only 1.37 rounds were expended per kill, at an average range of 450 meters! "An excellent source of information for not only target and sniping work, but also help­ ful to the hunter as it covers camouflage, shooting techniques and positions, correct lead, map and compass reading, and necessary equipment for survival in the field." GUNS. 8 x 10, over 100 illustrations, 196 pp., ISBN 0-87364-120-5. $12.95 HOW TERRORISTS KILL by J . David Truby O.S.S. SPECIAL WEAPONS CATALOG Police forces and security agencies around the world have ordered this A facsimile reproduction, this is book for their owrr libraries. It is known one of the most fascinating material as one of the most complete studies catalogs ever issued-the O.S.S. cata­ of terrorist-employed ordnance ever log of special weapons devices and compiled . Drawing from sources equipment. Devices such as penguns, around the world Truby documents time pencils, silenced weapons, mini the variety of weapons utilized by cur­ cameras. lock pick tools, noise bombs, rent terrorists. First hand interviews and much more are described in detail. with many guerrilla soldiers provide 100 pp., 8x10, over 200 illustra- unique insights into the true nature of tions, soft cover $7.95 the terrorist's arsenal. The author re­ veals the scope of operation for groups such as the Basque Separatists. FALN, Irish Republican Army and Baader~ Meinhoff Group. These and others PRINCIPLES OF QUICK KILL form the groups of terrorists that rep­ An inside look at the Army's tech­ resent a loose alliance of international nique for instinct shooting. Learn how terrorists that cooperate in terms of to determine your master eye, how to personnel, funds, arms, intelligence, hit tiny disks thrown in the air 8 times and operations. Over 80 rare photos out of 10, and how to simply and accompany the test. Vital reading for instinctively hit any target. Perfect fo r students of modern terrorism. 5'12 x 8'12, police, marksmen, and hunters. 8'12 x softcover, illus., 88 pp., ISBN 0-87364- 11 , softcover, illus., 72 pp. ISBN 0- 124-8. $6.00 87364-065-9. $6.00

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THE QUIET KILLERS I SILENCERS, SNIPERS by J. David Truby & ASSASSINS to Keep and In controversial interviews with con­ by J. David Trub_y troversial people, silencer expert J . ·Explosive interviews with ex-CIA David Truby explores the shady world agents, U.S. Army Special Forces oper­ B~ of the firearm silencer. From Vietnam atives and Marine snipers provide ne­ to Brooklyn, these merchants of whis­ ver-before-available insights into the pering death play a deadly role in both deadly role of the silencer in missions guerrilla and Mob warfare. Unique of intrigue and assassination. Author photos, both rare and historical, il lus­ J. David Truby traces the development trate dozens of interesting designs, of silencers from their invention by like the crude "Spud Silencer" used for Hiram Maxim in 1908 through their use one shot terror tactics by the IRA and by English 'and German snipers in WW the sophisticated MAC silencer - fit­ I, American gangsters of the '30s, Skor­ ted to a Remington Model 700 7.62mm zeny's elite Nazi commando units, OSS with an auto-ranging scope, this was agents and resistance groups in WW II, the military's master sniper weapon. and American snipers during the Kor­ Written in Truby's inimitable lively ean conflict. 21 4 pp., 200 TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS style, this volume is a must for your photos, 8'12 x 11 , clothbound. $15.95 by Bill R. 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An qualified to address these questions important chapter, "Your Day in that affect us all. Introduction to the Court ," tells how to successfu lly new edition by Col. Rex Applegate. 6 x defend yourself in traffic court, 9, hardcover, 275 pp., ISBN 0-87364- without a high-priced lawyer! 5 112 x 145-0. $10.95 8 112 , hardcover, 150 pp., cartoon illustrations, ISBN 0·87364-103-5. $8.95 EXPLOSIVE TRAINS SPECIAL FORCES We have found the finest technical OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES manual on explosives available. The FM 31-20 original distribution of this book was on a very limited basis, for use by per­ In every respect, except for the sonnel involved in esoteric experi- weatherproof cover and handy pocket . ments and research. Learn about the size, this is an exact reprint of the "Hot Spot" Theory of Initiation, Flash famous Army Field Manual 31-20. All Detonators, Destructors, and much, illustrations and every one of the 535 much more. 156 pp., 8'hx11 $8.00 pages of vital information are included. Chapters include: intelligence, psych ops, raids and ambushes, communica­ THE S.W.A.T. TEAM MANUAL tions, demolition, survival, improvised by Capt. Robert Cappel DETECTIVE'S PRIVATE weaponry, and much much more! 4 x 5, Another Pa lad in first! Captain Cap­ INVESTIGATION TRAINING softcover, illustrated, 535 pp., ISBN 0- MANUAL 87364-047-0. $12.95 pel's book is the first SWAT team man­ by William Patterson ual ever published. It is the same Thousands of detectives were manual written by the author for use in trained by this complete home study COLD STEEL teaching SWAT methods to various text, which was originally published for by John Styers police forces. Formerly restricted to a well known detective academy. Now text by Karl Schuon official police use only, it covers the you can undertake the same training A c lassic, originally published by theories, tactics, and training tech­ course for a fraction of its original cost. niques as practiced by a first-rate Le a thern~ck Magazine. Paladin has A fascinating and useful selection, it obtained exclusive reprint rights to SWAT team. Tells all about: choosing offers all the inside information and team members; organizing 4, 6, and 8 this book, which was the Marine Bible techniques used by. the professionals. of unarmed combat. Emphasizing the man teams; equipment selection; train­ Covered are such topics as bodyguard­ ing regimens; principles of counter­ practical aspect of bayonet, knife and ing, skip tracing, missing persons, sur­ stick fight ing, COLD STEEL also guerrilla ops; counter-sniping ops; veillance, disguises, clue gathering, ambush and counter-ambush tech­ provides short courses in unarmed bad check artists, and much more. 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KILL OR GET KILLED UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE by Col. Rex Applegate DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES, TM 31-200-1 A classic text detailing methods of Published originally for use only by self-defense, offensive close combat, the Army Special Forces . this unusual combat shooting and techniques of manual exposes the construction and controlling crowds in riot situations. employment of a huge variety of de­ "The desperately serious business of structive devices. Offers over 400 hand to hand fighting, which abstracts on incendiary systems, conforms to no rules of conduct, is set explosives, application of explosives, forth in this book." Police Chiefs small arms, and chemical warfare. A News. "Kill or Get Killed is about as never-before-available reference work complete a manual on assorted sure to interest law enf,orcement agen­ mayhem as you could ask for." cies and police bomb squads every­ Combat Forces Journal. Col. Applegate where. Be sure to add this rare find to is widely regarded as the father of your tactical library. 8 V2 x11 , softcover, modern close combat and combat 230 photos, 234 pp. N.D. $10.00 shooting, and Kill or Get Killed is considered the basic reference by UNDERWATER DEMOLITION TEAM which all other books on the subject MANUAL are judged. The book is a must for Once again available, this formerly OSS SABOTAGE & every serious student and is a perfect restricted Department of the Navy doc­ DEMOLITION MANUAL addition to the other combat classics ument is the bible for the famous Frog­ A fantastic find! Never-before avail­ offered by Paladin: Cold Steel, Do or men and SEALS. Profusely illustrated, able' A precise reprint of the fact­ Die, Get Tough and The Complete this text clearly and completely covers crammed manual used by dauntless Book of Knife Fighting. 5V2 x 8Vz, the history of UDT, Diving, Demoli­ ass agents to wreak havoc among cloth, 400 pp., illus. ISBN 0-87364·084·5 tions. Survival , Decompression Axis forces during WW II. Obtained $15.95 Tables and Weapons. Enjoy page after from an employee of an "unnamed fact-filled page of vital information government agency." Covers Military, with detailed. diagrams and drawings Commercial and Foreign Explosives; for a true understanding of UDT. 225 Incendiary & Demo Accessories; pp., 8'hx11, soft cover, ISBN 0-87364- SPECIAL FORCES DEMOLITION Preparation of Explosive Charges; TECHNIQUES 019-5. $9.95 Calculation and Placement of Charg­ es; Mines, Bombs & Projectiles as Extracted originally for Field Manual Demo Charges: Homemade Explo­ JUNGLE OPERATIONS FM 31-35 31-20, this pocket-size, fact-crammed sives: Shaped Charges; Firing Sys­ $8.00 book was produced for those tems, Incendiaries & Their Uses; interested in the demolition methods Harmful Additives and Techniques of used by the elite Special Forces. Just MAP READING FM 21-26 $6.00 Sabotage. The section on sabotage is some of the topics covered are: saddle unparalleled; the chapter on "Targets charges, counter-force charges, for Saboteurs" is unique! The most ribbon charges, and platter charges. A comprehensive demolition book avail­ useful addition to any demolition able for the ordnance technician. 319 bookshelf. 4% x 6V•, illustrated, 67 pp., pp., 156 illustrations, 14 charts, 5'hx8 V2 , ISBN 0-87364-082-9. $5.00 soft cover $12.95

Black Medicine II: WEAPONS AT HAND by N. Mashiro, Ph.D. Self-defense specialists take note: he re is the sequel to N. Mashiro's infamous Black Medicine: The Dark Art Of Death. That book revealed the 140 pa rts of the human body most vulner­ able in hand-to-hand combat. Weap­ ons at Hand takes the opposite Fig. (d) Towers should be felled across transmitter station approach . It presents 112 parts of the body that are natural weapons, largely SHOOTING TO LIVE because they are very injury-resistant. USMC DESTRUCTION BY By Capt. W.E. Fairbairn Following this is a section radically dif­ DEMOLITION, INCENDIARIES and Capt. E.A. Sykes ferent from conventional self-defense AND SABOTAGE Introduction by Col. Rex Applegate theory, that lists for you more than 180 deadly makeshift weapons that can Finally declassified with DOD direc­ This treatise is a practical analysis of save your life in a crisis. The weapons tive 5200.9, this manual is now made combat shooting techniques by men are all improvised from common items. available exclusively by Paladin. This who had to use them. Fairbairn and And 50 action photos show the reader is an exact and complete reproduction Sykes taught about and fought against exactly how to use the " black medi­ of the original terrifying handbook for the cutthroats of prewar Shanghai. cine" techniques discussed in Weap­ havoc. No demo library can be com­ Shooting to Live is a complete course ons At Hand. Especially suited to the plete without this volume. It is a perfect in training, choosing a pistol, realistic needs of bodyguards, security person­ complement to OSS Sabotage and ranges, and a fantastic chapter on nel , and martial artists. 5'h x 8%, soft­ Demolition Manual. 270 pp., 5'hx81h, bullet stopping power. 105 pp., dia­ cover, illus., 88 pp., ISBN 0-87364- diagrams, photos, soft cover, ISBN 0- grams and illustrations, 4 V2 x 7, soft­ 168-x. $8.00 87364-004-7' $12.95. cover. $5.95

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BLACK MEDICINE I NINJA COMBAT METHOD by N. Mashiro, Ph.D. Ninjutsu, "the art of stealth," is an Presenting to our readers the most 800 -year-old system of fighting tech­ thorough and intriguing discussion of niques, information gathering, and the human body's vital points ever to psychological controls. Made famous appear in a single volume. Through by the feared Ninja spies and comman­ strikingly realistic photographs and does of feudal Japan, ninjutsu is one of detailed line drawings, Mashiro illus­ the most all-encompassing arts of self­ trates over 150 parts of the human protection in the world. Ninja Combat body where a minimum amount of Method includes taijutsu (unarmed fighting), tsuki and keri (punching and force will produce a maximum impact on a person's ability to fight. The kicking), ken po (blade method}, kusari (chain), kuji-kiri (psychic control} , and study of these final points is integral to much more. Japanese warlords of old all branches of the martial arts, to the relied on a few black-garbed Ninja to military combat specialist, and to THE BOOK OF THE NINJA do what would have taken hundreds everyone concerned with self-defense by Christopher Hunter of armored soldiers to accomplish. in a life or death encounter. Buy now, Ninjutsu has been called the deadli­ This book will broaden your martial so you will have the knowledge when est, most savage, and terrifying self­ arts knowledge, no matter what your you need it! defense form known to man. This book fighting art may be. 8V2 x 11 , 40 pp., ISBN 0-87364-101-9, $8.00 verifies that assessment. Offering both illustrated. N.D. $6.00 practical techniques as well as the Nin­ PICTORIAL HISTORY OF PRINCIPLES OF jutsu ph ilosophy-The Silent Way­ U.S. SNIPING PERSONAL DEFENSE The Book of the Ninja reveals guarded by Pete Senich by Jeff Cooper secrets of an ancient and obscure art. Traces the history of U.S. sniping Covers Dim Mac, the Delayed Death from the Civil War to present. Civil War In separate chapters, one of the Touch, Kata Dan 'te ,the 5-Second sniper rifles were cumbersome .50-.58 world's leading experts in the deadly Dance of Death, Jn po , the Art of Hiding, caliber affairs, originally intended for art of combat pistol shooting, explains Tonpo , the Art of Escaping, and the use by benchrest match shooters. But how Alertness, Decisiveness, Ruth­ classic exercise of invisibility, Mi Lu called into service by both Union and lessness, Speed, Aggressiveness, Kata , the Lost Track Form. Includes a Confederate snipers, these octagon­ Coolness, Precision and Surprise can section on Chien-swords-"the soul ally barrelled muzzle loaders played an save your life when you are faced with weapons," and five fighting forms. Il­ important role in the outcome of the a violent confrontation. Your family lustrated with action photos and dia­ Civil War. Pete Senich, author of the needs this information as much as you grams, The Book of the Ninja features highly regarded Limited War Sniping, do! 30 pp., 5Y2x8'h, soft cover, ISBN 0- such fascinating items as "The Samu­ follows the U:S. sniper from the Civil 87364-001-2, $4.00 rai Creed ," and the Mandamus of the War battlefield of Chancellorsville to Black Dragon Fighting Society. A the jungles of Vietnam, where the ad­ "must" addition to any martial arts vanced XM-21 compiled a highly bookshelf. 7V2 x 9, softcover, illus., 90 esteemed kill record. Senich gives pp., ISBN 0--87364-195-7. $9.95 detailed specifications of the weapons that figured so prominently in WW I & II , Korea, and other important theaters ,,.,q. .,. ..g.~~ · of combat. History buffs and military collectors will be impressed with the ·- ·~-~ wealth of technical information pre­ sented in this authoritative voiume. In­ cludes over 230 rare photos, many never before available to the public. 81/2 x 11 , 175 pp ., photos and illustrations, hardcover. $19.95 BELOW THE BELT by Bradley Steiner CHINESE PRAYING MANTIS BOXING DEAL THE FIRST DEADLY BLOW At last a complete self-protection by Lee Yew Yeow guide for women is available from Newest available edition! An ency­ Though little known in the United Paladin . This is a no nonsense, no clopedia of unarmed and tiand-to­ States, Chinese Praying Mantis holds barred book which allows a hand combat - not just a complete Boxing is looked upon in China as the woman to protect herself against even handbook, but a total training course standard text for students interested the most vicious and violent attacks. for the deadly arena where second in this highly lethal, though little Two full chapt~rs graphically illustrate place is last. This is not a treatise on the publicized, form of martial art. Also how to counte'r attacks by potential gentlemanly art of self-defense. It is a known as "T'ang Lang", rl]antis rapists. Other sections include use of how-to training course for the GI, boxing was developed over 300 years readily available weapons, vulnerable peace officer or individual who may ago in northern China. It is based points of an opponent's body, and the find himself in a kill or get killed situa• upon agile footwork, and quick, natural weapons with which a woman tion, a complete study in how to kill an multiple punches and upper cuts. For is endowed. Hundreds of illustrations armed opponent whether you are the student of unarmed combat, show step"by-step techniques which "armed" with weapons or not. A virtual Chinese Praying Mantis Boxing are not pretty but which are EFFEC­ encyclopedia of gut fighting. The most presents many unique movements TIVE. 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80 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SEPTEMBER/BO SILENCERS FOR BLACK BAG OWNER'S MANUAL THE COMPLETE BOOK OF KNIFE HAND FIREARMS PART ONE: FIGHTING by Siegfried F. Huebner "SPOOK CENTRE" by William L. Cassidy The first book in English by one of Published for the first time, the An exciting book by one of the the world 's foremost experts. real inside story of the deadly world' s foremost edged weapons Siegfried Huebner has published business of international espionage! experts, William L. Cassidy - execu­ numerous books and articles in his Spookcentre is part one of a five part tive editor of Knife Digest, and former native Germany, and to write this book series comprising the Black Bag editor of American Blade Magazine. he has drawn from extensive research Owner's Manual. Written by an Every facet of knife fighting is covered at the Mauser works, Heckler and anonymous secret agent, this - techniques, tools, and tactics. Also Koch, and the German Army Proving shocking manual exposes the included is a comp lete review of Ground to bring to you a complete and logistical.and operational functions of techniques developed by experts like authoritative text on silencers. The a typical espionage agency. Part one, Fairbairn, Biddle, Applegate and text covers silencer principles, Spookcentre, explains the establish­ Styers and other never-before silencers in World War 11 , clandestine ment of one such model organization, published rare information on Oriental weapons, and five other vital and and how to make it work for you. 8% x techniques. 6 x 9, cloth bound, 130 pp., intriguing chapters. Over seventy 11, softcover, 90 pp., ISBN 0-87364- 90 photographs. ISBN 0-87364-029-2. fullsize album pages are devoted to 149-3 $6.00 $10.95 nearly two hundred exciting photos and drawings. 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CUSTOM OESIGN o .. ae.sF Khmer Krom and they proved a fertile 83301 P . 0 , BOX 2 2 9 F'ULTON , CA. 9 5 439 recruiting ground for Thanh's Khmer Serei, as well as the CIA and, later, KICK•PUNCH Special Forces. In the early '60s the Khmer Krom - Urban guerrilla war and and among them many who belonged to nuclear terror in Amer - KARATE the Khmer Serei - were actively recruited into the Civilian Irregular Defense Group ica in the 1980' s . . . (CIDG), which was a CIA operation until L C- Earl Turner and his 0 it was taken over by Special Forces in :no: TURNER DIARU!S . fellow patriots In r , the Organization are 1964. forced underground Most of the Cambodian CIDG units when the U.S. gov­ were strung out along the Cambodian ernment bans the private possession border in Special Forces A camps. Other of firearms and sta­ units served as reaction forces for Special ges the mass Gun Raids to round up Forces recon teams or as mobile guerrilla suspectedgunown­ teams which would run sterile operations ers. The hated E­ quality Police begin usually ranging from 30 to 60 days. hunting them down, The best of these CIDG troops were 1 but the Organiza­ recruited for cross-border recon and com­ tion fights back with Amerkln Kick-Punch K1rale Is a creation : an American version of the wldety a campaign of sabo­ practiced and most respected art ol Kara te. This art was oi'lglnatad by the mando operations run by Studies and tage and assassina­ AKP Karate Federation 11 a means to pruvlde American citizens wtth a conven­ Operations Group (SOG). For example, tion. The ingenuity ient and Inexpensive w1y to practice , learn & ultlmately 1chlav1 the rank of and boldness of " BLACK BELT" In our own " AMERICAN " form ol the ar1. AKP Karal1 hu Operation Cherry, run by SOG out of evotwed H one of the moil effective manthods of weaponlns self-d1f1n11, a Turner and his comrades in devising and superb method of maintaining physlcal 'fltnus, and an exciting & growing Special Forces Detachment B-57, was executing new methods of guerrilla war lead to sport within Iha United Sta tes. sending teams of 11 Cambodians and five a climax of cataclysmic intensity and world­ This course ls no gimmick! We offer no "Secret Tricks" or " Iron-Muscle" wide scope. The Turner Diaries is a book unlike methods. we t11ch sound techniques of self-defense . By complellng Americans into Cambodia. any you've ever read! Illustrated, 315 pages. scheduted training, you will develop the aglllty and ablllty to defend yaursett With few exceptions, the Cambodians against all types at attachers! AKP Karate methods al training art dnlgned to Author Andrew Macdonald is a promote courage , humlllty and confidence, and are practiced by men , woman working with Americans in South Viet­ and children ol au a91s. nuclear physicist and an expert in nam developed a reputation for being Course comp .. tlon through res ident classes and / or home study wm Hlad to improvised munitions, terrorist gad­ permanent award 'OI !he rank ot " BLACK BELT" In American Klck-Pupch tough, well-trained and reliable. gets, and military/industrial sabo­ Karate. In 1969, numerous units of the Khmer tage. His descriptions of devices and I ~~T~ ~~11~ FeEg£~~~~ N 79 Serei "defected" to Cambodia and were techniques are graphic and detailed. I GREENSBORO, NC 27420 integrated into the national army. After His scenario is terrifyingly realistic. I Please ru sh brochure on how " I" can earn my BLACK BELT quickly and easlly the coup of 18 March 1970 when Lon Nol I ~~T~~w:0s~ 1 ::!, ~no; ~ ,~~l~~~o~e~ r ~~t=~t;8 0~Mh~~~~l~ ~ . KICK PUNCH THE TURNER DIARIES ...... $4.95 took power, Sihanouk charged that these (Add 50 cents for postage to your remittance.) I NA.ME .. . •. . ...•....•...... •...... •...... •...... •....•... I defections were really infiltrations in preparation for the coup. In any case, Son National Alllance Books, Dept S, ! :~~~~.~: ::: :::.· .·.· ~ .·~ :: ~~~~~ .·.- ...... ~;~ :: :: ::: :::: :: :: ::::: i Box 3535, Washington, DC 20007 J Ngoc Thanh was quickly appointed an ad­ r-.-.,.-HE-AMEFilc"AN-MARTIAL-ART'' ___ viser to Lon Nol, though he initially con­ tinued to live in South Vietnam. Two years later he became prime minister. UNI-VEST by Garth In the spring of 1970, the 35 ,000-man Designed for Law Enforcement Cambodian army was in no condition to & Sporting use. $39.95 resist the communists. 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They were professionals that had To order. send cash or check. (II ca~h . add ScJ been in active combat situations in Viet­ COCO P.O. Box 451·5 nam," while much of the regular Cambo­ Calabasas. Calif. 91302 dian army, says Col. Ladd, were "like children rushing off to the front on Coca­ Cola® trucks." THE COMPLETE The CIDG battalions paid a high price CIA & SPECIAL FORCES - because they were effective. Used as ·a fire brigade and thrown into all the hot •IMPROVISED MUNITIONS e spots, they were pretty well decimated after a year and a half. But, for a long time, says Col. Ladd, "They were a big factor in keeping the NV A and VC off the central path." By this time Son Ngoc Thanh was a marked man. And, with the approaching communist victory, he was named by the Khmer Rouge as one of the seven Cambo­ dians who would be executed when they took Phn_om Penh. Instead, he escaped to These books were originally developed by the South Vietnam, where he remained after F R A NKFORD ARSENAL for the CIA and SPE· CIAL FORCES. They are the most detailed and the country fell to the North Vietnamese. comprehensive works ever done on the subject of improvised weapons. For years they have been the Thanh had sometimes been called a most sought after and secretive books ever published dreamer who never saw his vision realized. by the AMER ICAN MILITARY. Only after lengthy and extensive research have we been able to acquire And he never will, for according to· these comple te original books and are now making them available to you. Anyone who can foresee the reports reaching government intelligence troubled times ahead should not be without the officials in Washington, Thanh died in a knowledge contained in these books. - Improvised Munitions Black Books- Vietnamese concentration camp in 1978. 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Liberal pay com­ government document.. $8 postpaid. Su..Vival Systems, LOCKPICKS - I've been making picks as a locksmith 2000 Center Street, Suite 1239, Berkeley, CA 94704. mensurale with experience. Send Resume to: D. for 13 years. Picks that work and last. Complete set Spencer HINES, 104 McGrew Loop, Aiea, HI 96701 . BRASS CATCHERS for semi· and full-auto MAC Ingram $1.9.95. Also pick gun $65.00. Instructions included with weapons. · $18.oo· delivered. Quantity prices ·available. each. A.LL., 2520 W. North, Chicago, IL 60647. BULLETPROOF VESTS. Stops up to M16, AK-47. Priced Also for Reising guns. Box 841, Scobey, MT 59263. (406) $80.00 up. CWS Enterprises, 3824 Kidd, Honolulu, HI BERETS, we still stock the largest assortment available! 96818. (37) 487-5567 or 783-5345. (37) U.S. Leaf Pattern Camo Berets $16.00, U.S. Ranger Black PROFESSIONAL BODYGUARD Training Academy. WANT 308 ASSAULT RIFLE & 03A3. Prefer M14 or Berets $14.00, u:s. 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Send $4.00 to Perry Hazlewood, mits you to copy, examine and challenge the information M·85 Field Jackets, winter is coming so we are suppling 1504 Illinois, Flint, Ml -48506. in your file(s). For the c·omplete Access Booklet'- f.uil these new jackets. Available in U.S. Leaf Garno, O.D., EX·USMC Viet vet (Infantry) and Calif. police officer (over details, instructions and a prepared form 'send $4.95 to Khaki, & U.S. Tiger Stripe Garno. $40.00 ppd. Sizes S-XL. 41/2 yrs. exp.) seeking overseas employment in security Sunlight Enterpri_ses, P.O. Box 2893-~-, San Rafael CA M.C. & VISA accepted. A.H.A., P.O. Box 21606, Denver, or similar work. Contact: Gray, Box 641, Ft. Jones, CA 94902. . eo 00221. 96032. (36) SEPTEMBER/SO SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 93 RADIATION METERS available again, limited supply. At­ tractive plastic-c ased units with carrying strap, NAZI S-S Officer's Belt Buckle operating manual. Purchased from Gov't surplus before Hand linished in line silver plate (with fasleners modified to fit Three Mlle Island. Shipped In unmarked box $30 ea. No ADVENTURERS TELEPHONE any 1'/• " bell) . Only visible damage, but sorry, can't guarantee operation. New 1980 $1 3.00 postpaid . Our New Dulko, 128 Wolf Harbor Rd., Milford, CT 06460 (36) TEST SET Price . 224 page fully illuslrated 0 relic collectors catalog BE TAX EXEll!PT - Form your own church - Goes Clips on anywhere . ' 68° $3.00 free with order. through the IRS on its own forms - Complete com­ Monilors phone conversalion . W.W. #2 Ltd. prehensive instructions - $20.00 - NOW WHILE YOU Unde1ected while te sting. Box 2063 Dept. F STILL CAN. JRS, Box 3411 , Erle, PA 16508 Flip switch and place ca lls. St. Louis, MO 83158 HIT BACK - Former undercover cop and fed. agent. Educated professional, 15 yrs. exp. overt/covert opera­ Black Rubber Advertiser's Index Green Pla stic (No t shown) tions, special tactics, civil, criminal, commercial in­ Advertiser Page dustrial Investigations. Contract serious inquires only - Don't Leave Home Wtthout Ill Asores Technicos ...... _...... 89 cash· only. Ol iver, P.O. Box 13552, Roanoke, VA 24011. AKP Karate Federation ...... •...... 88 GERMAN WWII GUN PARTS - Mostly pre-1945 German Al Mar Knives ...... 10 A Must For Every Adventurer American Historical Foundation...... • ...... ·9 manufacture. Hard-to-find parts and accessories for 568.00 & P.PD. military and personal weapons. Complete list - $3. Waf­ American Pistol institute .. . .-. . . .. 69 Money Orders, VISA & Armament Sys tems Products Un ltd. . . . 6,84,89 fenfabrlk, Box 293, Isanti, MN 55040. (37) Master Charge Automatic Shooting School ...... 90 USMC camouflage caps new $5.95 ea. Camouflage nylon Auto Ordnance Corp...... •. • ...... 68 wallet $7.95. 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Miles Stair ...... • . . .•. • . •...... 15 Military Book Club ...... • ...... 2,3 PILOT: milti-lnst. F/E A/P mech. Diver-sea/air. $7 .95 postpaid Military Exchange ...... 67 Anythlme, anywhere, anything. Scott, 10900 SW 196 St., ~iltech Armament Co...... , . . . . . 86 Apt. 21 9, Miami, FL 33157. Aluminum paperweight National Alliance Books ...... 88 HOW TO KILL Vols. I thru IV, $4.50 each. All four for National Printing Service ...... •. • ...... 85 $16.50. Send $1 .00 for the 1980 catalog. Killzone, Box $3.95 postpaid National Locksmith Supply ...... •.• .• ...... 89 513, Warrensburg, MO 64093. Nordic Knives ...... 90 VIETNAM VETERANS, anyone knowing the where­ For novelty paperweight use only. North American Sc.hool of Firearms ...... •...... 68 Numrlch Arms ...... •...... 83 abouts of Pat Huseman or Greg C. McCllsh who served Not intended.for any other use. with D Co., 3rd Pit., 2nd Bat. 173rd Abn. Bd e. 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