SOVIET ARMY UNITS IN THE LOMZA DISTRICT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300090006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Poland/OSSZt
SUBJECT Soviet Aa r units in the Lomaa District,
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DATE 25X1 X6
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Di8T. 13 March 1947
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1. The whole province of B ystock is being converted into a huge Russian arsenal,,
from which the civilian population has been a vacuzated. A curfew has been Im-
posed in the Lomza distr?iot from 2000 until. OSoo. The roads are patrolled by
police troops. Polish garrisons in this area are being removed, and only the
UB and the MO remain.
2. The following Soviet Army unite are in the area:
a, 512th Infantx7 Division under General Bngolnov at Staw.aki. This
division e.rrrived from TulAa,
b, nth Motorized Division. under General Wydrd akoy, which has arrived
at Cr er )ny Bar from Tambov.
c. 3.19th Motorized Division, under General Suchonin,, Now located at
Lom,, it was for. erly at Sverdlovsk.
d. 7th Cavala' Brigade, under General Kulbin, has moved from Pskov to
Drosdowo and Rutki.
o. An XVD Regiment using the &PO number 00407 is now at Zambrow.
3. The following is an ecplaration of the letterings on the attached outline
showing the district of Lama in the province:
'MA" and "B" -- Airfields, under command of Pilot-Colonel Bondarenko from
Rostov. his HQ is at L.ona, and has the marking
There are about 300 planes on each field, mostly bombers.
- Three large underground reservoirs, very well camouflaged.
They are about 100 meters long, And 12 meters wide. They
a adjacent to the railroad,, and are connected to both air..
fields by underground pipelines? one carrying oil, the other
gasoline. (The gasoline pipe is marked by a straight line
on the attached diagram, the oil pipe by a
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ground and very well cumoufla ged. These are being built in
the woods by Soviet soldiers., G;,'x n n priWorters, and Poles vt
have been arrested and sent to the area. All the workers are
aardod by police trooops.
'IF" Supp1J dur-p - lumber, cement, stone, sand. Operated by about
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fbi.ssian-gauge railway:, I art of the Bialystok :;arsaw line, The
stations at 3ni allow and Lomza are wholly in the hands of police
troops, without wwhos permisvion no one can travel in the area.
1'apers of all 'who ,Cuss through are checked several times.
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