No, I've not heard of blond Baltic mercenary snipers. 'Twould be perfect in a Merc2k game, though! I suspect it's something like the Vietnam War-era rumors of the "Phantom Blooper," a Marine who defected to the VC and used an M79. Some Russian soldiers were shot without seeing where from, mostly head shots, and this wild tale of a super-accurate sniper takes off.
EDIT: Now I remember what this sounds like. In "Living Daylights", one of the Dalton-as-Bond flicks, the KGB general who is "defecting" set up his Czech mistress as a sniper, hoping that Bond would kill her. He tries to reinforce the concept with a line like, "Did you see that? It was a woman! KGB uses women snipers all the time!"
If it is well-known that the KGB (and Red Army and GRU) trained female snipers, and some of them are/were Olympic biathletes, and maybe some of them were Balts; then it sounds reasonable that one or more of them would be anti-Soviet, could have gone mercenary, and begun shooting at Russians.
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