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The '''Chesterton Liberation Battalion''' was a pro-[[Capellan Confederation]] terrorist group, which sought the return of the [[Chesterton]] worlds from Davion sovereignty, which was active as of [[2760]].<ref name=HLCCp43>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 43: "Incident on Demeter"</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
The Chesterton Liberation Battalion claimed responsibility for a terrorist bombing, in May 2760, which destroyed a [[BattleMech]] factory on the [[Federated Suns]] world of [[Demeter]] using a [[Nuclear Weapons|Nuclear Weapon]]. The Federated Suns accused the [[Maskirovka]] of aiding the terrorists, though they denied these charges.<ref name=HLCCp43></ref><ref name=HBHL>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 22: "Chesterton Liberation Battalion"</ref><ref name=IOH>''Intelligence Operations Handbook'', p. 71</ref> Treating the attack as a breach of the [[Bell Accord]] between the two states, it caused a brief period of open conflict between Liao and Davion sides known as the [[Border War (28th c.)|Border War]], to which the [[Star League]] responded by deploying the [[Star League Defense Force]]'s [[16th Fleet (Star League)|Sixteenth Fleet]] to the Chesterton region.<ref name=FMSLDF>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 198</ref><br />
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Despite the Davion accusations, and a broader campaign to destabilize the Chesterton worlds ordered by [[Chancellor of the Capellan Confederation|Chancellor]] [[Warex Liao]],<ref name=IOH/> later investigations into internal Maskirovka records suggested the CLB was not a Maskirovka front. While one of the CLB's key members was [[Edgar Borlenko]], a former Maskirovka analyst and Chesterton native, these records did not support the popular Davion theory that he joined the group at the behest of the Maskirovka.<ref name=HBHL/><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''<br />
* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''<br />
* ''[[House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)]]''<br />
* ''[[Intelligence Operations Handbook]]''<br />
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