Some agency officials quoted in the book said it was kept within the Soviet division.
Some officers said it would take seven Soviet divisions to keep one in combat.
The cold war presented the military with targets that were easy to find but hard to kill, like a Soviet armored division.
A Soviet division of nearly 6,000 well armed soldiers occupied it and the surrounding area.
Twenty Soviet divisions were captured or destroyed in this action.
Other officers within the agency's Soviet division were investigated, to no avail.
By noon, the Soviet divisions began to fall back.
During this struggle, 20 Soviet divisions were destroyed or have surrendered.
In addition, the Soviet divisions had been reduced to 4,000 men each by the start of the operation and their combat value was seriously limited.
Contact was also made with the 75th Soviet division which was sent as reinforcements.