UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN KRAKOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A059500130001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 20, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the IInited States within the meaning of the Espionage laws, Tilde
18, U!B.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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Unidentified Military Installations DATE DISTR.
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The 'following unidentified military installatit~ns were observed in Krakow
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with.a barbed-wire fence extending beyond the building. The guard
posted in front of the building wore a blue uniform .on .8 March.l961,
but two days later,'he and a second guard, posted between the building
and .the fence, wore khaki uniforms. No military activity was observed.l
On ul. Montelupich: a road between barracks. The guard in front of the
northern block wore a khaki uniform. No military activity was ;observed.
Other installations on this street included a 1-story house with a
small garden in front, guarded by an elderly, unarmed, soldier wearing
a blue uniform; a 1-story barracks, apparently used .as a depot; concrete
walls, with a paratrooper posted as a guard in .between them. On
10 March 1961 a paratrooper drove a military truck-past the guard.2
On ul. Warszawska: a ~+-story building in front of which a guard
wearing a khaki uniform and cap with red .band was posted on lO.March 1961.
No military activity was observed. -Other installations in .the block
included a firing range, a stand, a civilian-occupied building with an
inscription which seemed-to indicate that a technical school was located
there, and another building probably also belonging to a technical
school.3
On ul. Ra,jska: a 3-story building resembling ,a prewar German .barracks,
On.ul. Prandoty Ion 10 March 1961, two soldiers in
.khaki uniforms and winter caps drove in from .the north i:n a military
truck with .trailer. The truck was loaded with equiplnent,? the trailer,
which .was half the length of the truck .and about two meters hi h had.
smooth metal sides and-a tarpaulin cover which bulged on top. ~~~?
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5. In the evenings of the early part of March, the streets were mainly
filled with paratroopers
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of Krakow showing the locations of the installations described
above. Rough sketches of the immediate locations of installations
are also attached.
Comments:
changes to blue uniforms.
has moved into the barracks; in December 1960 the OPL units
another indicates that an air force or air defense (OPL) unit
wore a blue uniform .one day and a khaki uniform (without beret)
Sixth Rir orne ivision a~tTiis arrac s. a fact that the guard
a battalion of the
2. ~ The block is supposedly a depot for the Sixth
ivision.
3. The purpose of these ~i"n t~,llations is not kno~
e use by the ABC-school in Krakow.
n. It may
4. The contents were presbly e.lectrotechnical equipment,
such ~s artillery firing computation equipment.
The truck was probably en route to the ~1.
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ations noted on Krakow City Ntap:
I - silica Ra.jska; see also sketch I
elupich; see also sketch II
III - silica Warszawska; see also sketch III
IV - silica Prandoty; see also sketch IV
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