YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300420008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/15: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300420008-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Poland
Youth Organizations
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form ie prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN TdIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
10 March 1953
(a) Service to PoLahd (Sluzba Poisce ? SP). SixteP - ds could be
members of the SP for. a period of six months. embers could 25X1
ex
25X1
membership was not compulsory.
Throughout Poland there;was an undeteridined number of brigades of the SP.
SP members could pi?,tin? 46 }ours t work per month in a local mine, foundry
or factory and that, was created to them as part of their training.
(b) Cadet Regiment (Pulk Kadetow) hese cadets, ranging in age 25X1
from five (sic) 8. numbered about 1,000 and were stationed below 25X1
Warsaw, future officers will come, at least in part,:
from this regiment.. Cadets wore greenish-OD uniforms with garrison caps,
25X1
ARMY review completed.
STATE E? ARMYE-v- NAVY AIR F81 AEC
YEAR
- RE-REVIEW rlbuH Indieahd 1y "X"l Fiold DlNribution by "#".)
25X1
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/15: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300420008-4
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/15: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300420008-4
SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION
" 13sh Youth Union " Z iaz ,k Mlodzierzy polskt !r ZIP).'
s ovement solicited *i.embers fxibm-the "ranks of ch :i of .gran ar
school. ageand. r older~up to the -age .of 1$. If they were in the .. .
aeIest-grbup and were -"between .l6 " and ' 18, thOy were approached and
asked tc~ a git Up `ae Pa- ty .earididates As an added ifducements
oai dilates were. offered. the privilege of-attending ax ' NOO school
and ibtair ing an 'NCO rating before they were called -u]f`or
nlitar r - service. ZMP -members 'nod- no uniforms; 'they' attended
wee political meetings and, having been indoctrinated in, the
Pnl h':'Comm x ist Party and. government policies, . they, as a
pro-;Regime -,group, made .p a significant percentage of. the
25X1
Polish population.,
.Scouts (Harcerstwo). Throughout Poland there were scout clubs
which" + atered ' tc+ :youths in the seven to 15-year age group.
Parents had to provide a greenish-OP uniform with red braid in
the-upper left area of the shirt.
(e) ive : s 'C 1 u Zw k - zko l ne). 25X1
there was usually a U n a Polish
e oczoa Part.Ja Ro'eotnicz , -- PZPR) .. 25X1
Wo - era : rarz;y . a sca n
secretary on the 'University t s board of. governors.. This secretary
was instrumental in organizing university clubs, which direeccted,
or were orgzed with the aim of directing., the thinking of
university students along Party lines. These clubs were to serve
as guides in influencing the students and
convino them to o the Fart 25X1
BEOR~"1'
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/15: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300420008-4