ACTIVITIES ON RUEGEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700200010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Activitlea on Ruegon
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1., Refugcea #'.rort the island cf Ruegen report that Trine char:ibers (Sprong1 ? nern )
are being built in Ruagenderx, by the Soviete Tp.e effr?l?t :c rsr~1: e ltxae get
into the rtres,.gee ~ pillar of the "Baltic i,ni1" is beint ? hurried along; all
available means. The Paiaaionw are tai inp ever more and more of the i.al arid,
Along with the rersc.val of hotel and penesion l eeners, more and none of the
population i' being evacuated. Forenoat among those e: pelled are politically
unreliable persons, persona unable to work, and pensioners. The dwelling
apace t'~us made available it used to quarter RV8 and K'1P unite,..
Blnz, k'rora, 14esl , Breeg o, Glowe, Sassnitz, :Ieu-: su4 ran, 1ser ;en, P'uttoruss mood
Goehren have become completely militarized, The ontirc `eland i, r L rFs ,*
military law. 1'aids by the secret police terrorize the rertai n5 n~ p,Y~ui. r ri c 7
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Now parts of the island are continually being added to he off'-liritA areas.
Existing artillery installations, airfield, rya na over ar-3as, and seaplane
bases are being enlarged and new ones built. Large dep?.tsa partly sub-
terranean9 ? hold a tremendous amount of war na.terial cf 1112. 1 inda,
Trains loaded with rsunitiona and accesrc?ry naterials roll over the Dann to
the island day and night. The People's Police units, Ve asori battalions,
and the prisoners confined to tl e3 island as forced laborors are kept aert~-
plotely Isolated from the oviet troops,,
Recently the work on the fortifications which were auppese}d to be finiolied
by the end of 1953 has been cenriderably areeded up by the order of the
fuasians. It is anticipated that the woe: on the forts Picotinr_e will be
completed in July er Augurt 19530 It can be tall tart for ""ranted that the
i u.sei,ans wish to erect another Peels +ala here and nrerer t the free world
rJ t.h an ae;ecrlr}:lisped fact before prcteatr can be nade.
5, The noople who were forcefully evacuated fron.::ue gee era said to have been
ror:loved to a rawly erected concentration carip 60 1,11oreters southeast of
S tottin.
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