HQ USFA G-2 special bi-weekly report

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65-00756R000600080003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 12, 1947
• Content Type: PERRPT

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,School for Western Collaborators is located 7 kilometers. from the village
of Khimky near Moscow. The school is well guarded by MVD units and Ger-
man detachments, and the camp entrance and exit are strictly surveilled.
Passes to leave the area are issued to school personnel only by the camp
commandant, and to guards by the Officer of the Guard. Camp is surrounded
by a double barbed wire fence with watch towers at each corner. Two lone
away the camp is guarded by an external MVD network instructed to shoot
without warning, signs around to this effect. The administration, connnnie
personnel guards and faculty live in 11 small villas while the trainees
live in nine wooden barracks, poorly equipped and furnished. Older
trainees live better, and villas are comfortable.
In general medical attention and facilities are very good, abundant
and varied diet. New men live 18-20 in a room, older ones 1-2 in-a
room. Service personnel are qualified trainees.
Qualifications for Selection: Agents are recruited from German pws,
internees and the civilian population of the Sovzone of Germany, predomi-
nately the youth. Recruiters prefer the following groups: Commies,
Waffen-SS nco's, former members of the NSDAP and Hitler Jugend, and un-
scrupulous adventurers. While still in the reception centers ("general
camps* on German soil) they are subjected without their knowledge to
strict and careful observation by so-called "recruiting specialists".
Those who refuse to work for the Soviets are isolated and shot, the rest
are transferred to the Staging Camp 192/III at Minsk, where the process
of screening and sorting is continued. Agents- provocateurs are planted
among the recruits to trap persons into compromising themselves. When
the final selection is completed, the group is shipped to KIimlty .
Faculty,-and Administration: Faculty is composed of Russians, Germans
and others who speak perfect German. Teachers are known only by cover
names which they change every 10-12 days. The camp commandant is
appointed for a 3-4 month period, after which he disappears. No com-
mandant is known by his true name. The director of training, however,
remains unchanged. Guards, orderlies, etc. are not permitted any con-
tact with trainees.
Kur~gL1mnt: Total # of trainees in school at any given time is from
7-800.
Trainees are assigned cover names As sobn:&s::they leave 'the-ofebep-
tio genter;,? Real names may never be divulged, and thus they become used
to living under a false identity and remain ignorant of their fellows'
identity. Each person gets a new nickname after completion of a course.
Contact between persons undergoing different courses is strictly forbidden.
In the preparatory course there is a large # of "secret dollaborators" or
informants who gradually disappear and return again with the next ship-
ment from Germany.
The first stage is planned to cause complete moral degeneration of
the trainees. Mutual suspicion, spying, informing, provocation and
trachery from the basis of personal relationships and charactierize the
atmosphere...Diaobedience is punished by shooting. During this period,
many vanish leaving no traces. Questions re them forbidden. Intermedate
and special groups enjoy greater freedom, have access to the library and
athletic facilities, and can associate with their fellows. Trainees in
row f simmat9 /80d&W-$cPR 07 QW,04M.QQQMst be obeyed.
Cases of older trainees disappearing are comparatively rare.
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Private conversations between teachers and trainees are strictly
forbidden. identifying insignia - intermediary trainees wear a red
single braid; special trainees, two red braids on the left sleeve.
Training program_- consists of three parts and lasts 8 months.
a. Preparatory course - 1 month. Screening of trainees, political in-
doctrination and demoralization. Subjects: History of VKP (b) Aims of
the CP; World importance of Bolshevism; History of the USSR and other
countries; The Soviet Army; Program of other political parties.
When the subject of national socialism arises, certain of its
precepts are criticized, but it is never condemmed as a whole. All abuse
is heaped on Hitler himself, and a concentrated effort is made not to
offend the Germans.
b. Intermediate course - 2 months. Intensification of indoctrination
along lines outlined in the preparatory course. Review of basic academic
subjects; examination of trainees as to their knowledge of military and
scientific fields. Military and physical training.
c. Special course - 5 ifonths. Theoretical and practical.
1. Propagandaand agitation.
2. Military economic and political espionage.
3. Intelligence systems of the enemy (i.e. all other) countries.
U. Counterintelligence.
5. Conspiracy.
6. Courier Duty.
In addition, special trainees are given individual coaching in their own
line of work in accordance with their level of education in the chosen
field. Professional and specialized knowledge is thus brought into har-
mony with material covered by the training program.
Outstanding members are kept after the regular 8 months training
period - physicists, chemists, engineering technicians and linguists,
for further training in economic and scientific espionage.
After completion of the courses, agents are assigned and sent to
their future stations after having signed an oath, and are given complete
papers with a new identity. Hq to which agents are usually assigned are
Berlin and Vienna or they may also be placed at the disposal of the
Central Intelligence Service (MGB).
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