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Fearing Soviet invasion, US trained Alaskan ‘agents’ in 1950
Fearing Soviet invasion, US trained Alaskan ‘agents’ in 1950
Fearing Soviet invasion, US trained Alaskan ‘agents’ in 1950
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens across Alaska for a covert network to feed wartime intelligence to the military, newly declassified Air Force and FBI documents show.

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