GERMAN-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION FOR RUSSIAN PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200650009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S 3-MET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORI
INFOR ATION DEPORT C1 NO.
COUNTRY Fast Germany
SUBJECT uerman-Lan?ua3e Instruction for Russian
Personnel
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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offices in Ka.rlshoret, where they were interviewed and hired on an.
individual bcsis by an official designated to supervise the organization
of a course in language instruction for each department or office. As
of January 1947, a board of uperaisors had been cot tip, which called itself
the "Lehr Kombinat" and which was located in a house on. Lracnonfelsstrasse o
In January 1947 th en of the Lehr-Kombinat was a Russian female, Mrs.
anbe ian (fnu ,
individual departments or sections of be Soviet Vili'ca.ry Admin? si,raxt .on 25X1
1. In 1946, in. an effort co provide a reliable and eef L'ici:ent staff of
la .n, cage instructors to teach Crerrian .tai the Soviet officials stationed
in Karlshorst and irk order ti facilitate their acquiring a sufficient
familiarity with the la:ntgaage to hF.ndle direct Lagotiaticus with German
nationals, the SMA advertised for language instructors by posting notices
on the bulletin boards of the University o Berlin, later the Humboldt
Univere.ity. Students applying for these positions were directed to
2. In 1947 the following Russians received instruction in German under
supervision of the Lehr-Kombinat in the building on Lrachenfelsstrasse
a. Dyatloya (fnu).
b. i.A. 33essonova. i'to further details known.
c. Fenopetova (fnu). No further details known.
d. Shhapahenko (fnu). No further details known.
e. Shesteryakova (fnu). No further details known.
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f. Shorokhova (fnu). No further details known.
g, Lissichenko (fnu). No further details known.
h. Neznamova (fnu). No further details known.
i. Nalivayko (fnu). No further details known.
3,. During the years 1949 and 1950, when a regular school was set up by the
Lohr Kombinat to handle the teachi:i#-' of German to Soviet officials, the
following Russian nationals were students of German:
a. Golub (fnu). No further details known.
b. Tatarenko (fnu). No further details known.
c. Gaykin (fnu). No further details known.
d. Vassilenko (fnu). No further details knowni
g .
ondrashov (fnu),
a shin fnu .
ajor Vovk (fnu).
4.? In adciiticn to organizing courses in German in the school building, the
Lehr Yombinut also supervised classes in German conducted in the individual
sections of the S"
..M, later the SCC; the classes were hold in the offices
of the individual sections. It also supervised the assignment of German
instructors to Soviet officers who desired to have private instruction
in German-0 either in their offices or in their billets after official
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a. Russian Supervisory Per: onnel of the Lehr-Kortbinat in 1949-50:
(1) 'r-ruzhina fnu
(3) ',,'&,-iria Petrcvna Kozyrvova Supervisor (Oberlehrerin).
b. German members of the staff of instructors:
(1) Pohl (fnu) 25X1
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(2) Sverdlova (fnu). Supervisor and principal of the Lehr-koiuh-x,-,+.
(2) Alte:npohi (fnu)
(3} Miss Lehmpfuhl (fnu)o Also employed in a German school; resided
resided in Koepenick.
Kir:;ch (fnu). Student at the University or. Unter den Linden;
also taught German to Russian officials in ;:eicse:.aee at are
unidentified location.
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(5) Mrs. Luebbe '
Schwabe (fnu).~
(7) Bodo Georg. student of English and Slavic ~ antfua es; also
(8) Martha Sander. Student; in 1954 was teaching German at the
Akademie der '.rii ssenschaf t and 2laus der Kultur; very pro-
Communist
(9) Igor ,`'erner. In 1949 headed the German teacalin.-r staff in the
Knorr-Bremse building. In late 1953 he was an instructor
of Russian at the Linden University (Humboldt University?).
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(10) Annemarie Schuster. University student;
The emphasis on the program for Russian officers to learn German has not
be.ei diminished in recent years. During 1953 lang age instruction was
in each of the det>artments or offices of the Soviet installations
it as: Berlin, including such offices as the Garantie and Kreditbank.,
USIG, SAG ti'BEL Headquarters, etc.
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