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I'm sure that there's at least one named Spetznaz unit operating in the US (I thought it was on the east coast too) in one of the modules or Challenge mini-modules but for the life of me I haven't been able to find it with a quick search today. There's definitely one group of Soviet soldiers operating on the East Coast however.

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I did find the Challenge mini-module Strangers in a Strange Land (page 14, Challenge Magazine issue 48) which is about Soviet Group Medved, 112 Warsaw Pact soldiers and officers who were broken out of a POW camp at Graterford Prison in Pennsylvania in a well-orchestrated KGB operation on December 5th, 1997. Originally there were 400 of them and they were supposed to make their way in small groups to a rendezvous point near Philadelphia then cross the Delaware and then hide in the New Jersey marshlands until submarines could evacuate them in January 1998.

The evacuation never happened, and in any case many of the POWs deserted and disappeared into the countryside as soon as they broke out. The ones that did follow orders were organised into 4 x 25-man platoons and a HQ element. They managed to keep things very successfully on the down-low and were still operating at the time of Going Home but they're very short on firearms and ammo and don't have much in the way of heavy weapons or vehicles. They're led by a Soviet Army Colonel, formerly of the 5th Tank Division.
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