Sneak Attack

Reporters raid Camp Lejeune

The plan of attack well rehearsed and thorough. Leaving a fishing cabin rented under a false name, the group of eight split into three teams; two of them rode in vans loaded with unmarked cardboard cartons while the third left in a 17-ft. outboard motorboat. The van teams entered the huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were...

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