OUR MEN IN VOTKINSK VOTKINSK, A TOWN OF 100,000, IS THE SITE OF A KEY NUCLEAR-MISSILE ASSEMBLY PLANT IN ONE OF THE MOST HIGH-SECURITY REGIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION.

The Boston Globe | August 31, 1988| | Copyright

WASHINGTON - It sounds like the wildly improbable opening scene of a Cold War thriller:

Deep inside the Soviet Union, in a town called Votkinsk, an elite band of Russian-speaking US military men has quietly occupied the elegant country dacha of a Soviet minister of defense. Their mission: to take American intelligence-gathering within the very gates of a nearby Soviet nuclear missile plant.

Pity the poor authors whose bread and butter was made of such potboiler fare. By Cold War standards, the facts of 1988 are stranger than fiction.

"The first thing that strikes you is that the ...

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