The World - News from Jan. 10, 1986
The first U.S. cruise missiles to be deployed in West Germany have arrived at an American base. German television and the West German news agency said that an unknown number of the 96 cruise missiles scheduled to be deployed in the country arrived at Hahn Air Base, 55 miles southwest of Frankfurt, for storage at a camp in the nearby village of Hasselbach. There was no official confirmation of the reports. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations agreed in 1979 to deploy 108 Pershing 2 missiles and 464 cruise missiles to counter Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe.
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