SOVIET ARMY COMMUNICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600020035-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: March 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPQR7
INFORMATION REPORT
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Each technical school conducts refresher courses in which officers are acquainted
with the latest equipment and techniques. Instruction in these schools is very
good because most of the faculty have received special training in methods of
instruction. In addition, any commanding officer who has personnel who would
be specially-qualified instructors may set up such schools in his organization
as he feels desirable.
Officers receive no formal training in partisan warfare, but all line officers
(communications officers included) are trained to command small independent
units and in the employment of sabotnge and propaganda. Communications withir_
partisan forces are largely by means of messenger, since other methods are
vulnerable to interception. Radio is used to communicate between partisan
units and the Soviet Army when they are separated by hostile troops; very
little wire communication is used. All partisan activities, including communi-
cations, are on a military basis. So far as is known, these units do not have
any equipment designed especially for partisan use.
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dic code groups listed in the Co.1ba. Cjjzn+ini^,ytione Orders are used to warn tanks;
other personnel are warned by aud.Lblo s:gr, ~ls wrh+;re po..oible. Higher units are warned by
0 over wire circuits. P70, Yrh:c, i' n f`motion of the t"GB, controls the operation of
thn AAArnh -Alt,
Colored emoko rocketz are c ooti^rca employed for signalling during the daytime, but
colored panels are much preferred becauoe of their greater security. Smoke pots and boobs
are used to produce white or grey smoke for screening, but colored smoke is not available
in those forms,
the security classification of Combat Communications Orders
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locations of ~arge military radio stations
(a) Minsk - very large radio station near e 7 km NE Minsk on Minsk-Moscow
Superhighway 53066'N 27?41'E).
Uruohye is a "military town" or contonment consisting cf a
number of four-story brick buildings.
he insk- oscow Superhighway is
11 m wide and is constructed of gravel covers with tar; during the sumier the road
becomes so sticky as to pull the solos and heels off the boots of troops who march
along it.
(b) Kiev - a large radio station is located opposite the Dnieper River from Kiev
(500261N 30c41'E).
numerous antennas of undetermined types were found there.
(o) Leningrad - Radio receiver station located at Sosnovaya Polyana in the southwest
su'erbs of Leningrad (i9050'N 30008'E). This area consists of two antenna fields.
each a little less than a kilometer square, with a building between them; equipment
of an unknown type was housed in the building. Antennas are of the umbrella type,
with centers 30-40 m high.. This station is heavily guarded, and it lies in a security
zone which borders the Gulf of Finland. The Communications School for the Soviet Army
is in Leningrad on Soviet ivonue near the Smolensk Palace; it is a very large
building, occupying an entire block.
pigeons or dogs employed to carry message
are extensivoly used by border guard units, with dogs more widely used than
pigeons. peoial schools exist for training these animals. Army troops also use them,
but to a lesser de ree.
Manual telegraph is used only as a spare for other wire facilities from Division up. From
Division to Corps, communication is usually by telephone, and co higher units by toletype.
radar units
ThR actual equipment is housed in a small building near Division Headquarters; guards do
not permit anyone to approach except on business. A parabolic sheet antenna approximately
two feet high by four feet long, is mounted on top of the building and rotates s1pwiY The
not is in operation 24 hours daily. This radar is apparently standard in Rifle Divisions
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and is used primarily to ;hook the location of friendly aircraft. Reporting to the PVO
(anti-aircraft) control is in cudad toletveo mossaaon. f.~.rAmr -a_,.. syte were observed at
airfields
The division supplies the housekeeping, but the operation is under the control of PVO.
(All anti-aircraft activity is under the control of PVO - a part of the
the term used to describe radio jamming
"Glushenie" (r,M4V.-.HWE) (Dampening).
Jamming on a tactical level is done by t u regular field radio sots issued to the
communications troops.
Jammin is handled on the tactical level by the the MGB.
No jamming uses bagpipes, sirens, bells, sirens, noise, tone, and words; posnibly
phonograph records are used to produce those effects. False messages are also used to
confuse the enemy. Special effort is made to jam enemy air-ground radio during bombing
attacks and during static situations when the enemy's radio load in heavy; it is never
done during a Soviet attacks Inductive jamming is used to interfere with enemy wire line
During peacetime, troops practice against VOA and BBC broadcasts.
Portions of the radio
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01. 01 and they form into small detachments as ordered. These detachments also perform interce
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duties as ordered.
The Chief of Communications of a unit is responsible for monitoring the radio communica-
tions within that unit. The LIGB also monitors both friendly traffi
c.
Both Communications Regiments and the AMGB have and operate radio direction-findin
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equipment.
adio direction-finding equipment
Communications Regiments are knovni to possess such equipment,
it is installed in semi-permanont installations simil
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A&IC T CIL&Py1~1,) (literally "self-flying projectiles") do
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They are rumored to be of.the surface-to-surface type,
to carry approximately one ton of ex
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There are several types of mines with wooden, plastic, or other non-mstellio cases which
cannot be located by mine detectors. They are located by driving probes into the ground
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Both military and civil aircraft are under rigid PVO control at all times that they are
in the air. The PVO is primarily concerned with the prevention of escape from the USSR
- the detection of invading aircraft appears to be of only secondary importance.
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or herding prisoners (not Pw's) or livestock across the mined area. In addition, there are
mines which can be r