1. MILITARY, NAVAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION ON THE RIGA AREA 2. DEPORTATIONS IN LITHUANIA

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• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT I- Military, Naval. Pol!tical. and Nconomic
Inforeation on the Riga Area
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Tiaseln: Rina harbor la reportedly being used as a base for three mine-
aueeper or corvette-type vessels about 80 meters In lenath. A special
veasel about 70 meters long, with high command bte(dge at one aide of the
dc.tk hael been observed in the harbor. From the description, it would
ar?ear to be a miniature aircraft carrier. The only armament; is one anti-
a5mraft cannon located at the bridge, Twenty MT:cts are permanently based
le the harbor. Morement of naval craft within the bay and harbor aree
Lr 01-1948 was insigniejleant. During the Navy pvy parade, IC Soviet eu:a-
ve:Inee arrimed to participate in the event and departed the same flay.
plrltor inetal.lationg The harbor of Riga was seveeely damaged by the re-
tellating Germans in 1944. In October 1948. &want 500 German PWe were
e:eeloyed daily in rebuidinne, About 40 percent of the quays have been
reatered to serviceable condition. Three aerviceable float in docks aee
lolated in the aarbor. One shipbuildinc wharf d.just be ;T,oratioJa
Milgravis and two others were nenring completion by October 1948. Twenty
celnes of 5 to lOaton capacity were in operation in the merchaat shipping
soetion of the harbor.
BAJAAnE oronavelnlerfionnel; About 2,000 Soviet narines are stationed at
Tia. A school for laeyeareold naval cadets which has been establiehed
tu the former Latvian War Muaeum is called the Admieal Yakhimov Academy,
Sgmlanp 14,Ipsv A seaplane base has been established at lake Kis.(Kinezers).
It is believed to be.prfeecipally for patrol purposes but special training
in the form 'of dropping special buoys into the lake by parachutee has 4seen
cfeeerved
Ra Lio: A naval radio station has been erected near Mangaisela (Magnueholm).
(31e Attachmen'e, Sketch No. I. for appnoximate location)
nplAtalndef,ennea The Riga harbor area is defended princinally by a battery'
o 210 mm artillery, morented on eOncrete foundations with underground facilities.
At present. the gans are covered with camouflage. eats. No other defenses are
knewn tc be in Piga bay. No security patrols are active in the area and all
fl.hdng activiVies and lost movements within the bay are free. of control,
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Tho eeadguartere of the Boltic Military District ia located in aiga at the
coeeer, of BrivIbas and Ralmis boulevards, This district Ie comeanded be Genoral
BaDemyan. Another headelarters building is located at the corner of Elizabetee
iele and Amtonijac iola. This bueldieg is notehle for the intenSive aetivitr
and the high degree of eeeurity maintained by all personnel, including ednior
offieers.
A &.elet military academy for officere is else 3ocaeed Lollies. At the 1948
Mely )ay parade, about 500 officer from the ace, of the eanle of mee::or or
aboie, attended.
(). The few infantry troops o"leerved in Riga were priectpa ly marine e or rity
Loco s of the MC4.1 and MVD,
10. Soviet Army field units are located at Ventspi/s, Valdemarpils, Vainode, ,
Wuleiga, Daugavpilu, and Tekaboile. A tank concentration point is reported
at faldus.
Airtlelds, ire tlogeye.eqiniknefAlora (See Attachment, Sketch No. II)g
?3-141.1x,_44y14.1.4 Includes an area about 3,000 x 3,000 meters. The fiela
Is welleeeui4ned and has concrete runways. Many planes of the following
types were-Observed there: TP-7, PE-3, LAe5. About two air divisions
ere repertedly assigned here. The commanding officer is a Russian general.
""L) eabites_airficAg Aboxt 6 km west of Riga.
c. 3kirstayvairp?pld; About 6 km southeast of Riga.
d. he airfields of Ziepniekakalne and Kainoiems_are uaed ae air depots
and supply bases.
a. Other airfields are }mown to be located atDaueavpile, Lepra, Ventspils,
Tukums, Telgava, Smiltene, Krustpils, Yekabpilse and Gulbene.
Pc!,Q,12-.9Ate Apt.i.lorgttim.
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no The Minister of State Security (Ma) of Latvia ie a prefessional Communiut
aamed Noviks. The headquarters is located at the corner of Brivibas and
'itabu streets.
b. he Minister of Intereor (MVD) and chief of the MVD forces in Latvia is
The headqueeters is located on Reiner street. Nach town of rny
Importance has an MVD unit of about 100 - 200 soldierc.
Depeetat.ionee Since 1944, there have been no mass deportations froo Latvia.
'D,ano.tations are now made systematically from the central prison camp at Riga,
whice serves eeethe collectinee point for inmates from all Letvien nrieons.
1ere7tation of about 2,000 personc takes nlace every-other month. The Latvian
are ?rincipally sent to the Tomsk, Yraenoyarek, and Komi regions, where they
becoee slave workers In themines or the forests. A. considerable number of
deportees return illegaVer.
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ae V11 .factories In Riga have been rebuilt and are in operatione. Many of the
racilities haviebeen 'Improved and expanded. An eeemple-is the VE electroechnicl factory. which emnloys.about 5,000 workers, producing radio equip-
qient, telephones, and various kinds of war equipmont l'Zfort is he nzlde
to produce a small camera to replace the Minor previously produeed at the
1SY factory. Radio compasses also are reporteday being produced in lterge
quantities. This faceory is under army supervielon It is managed and
eupervised by a formeelaesian colonel, a member of Seerche
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7e, 1.e Vairogs factory eeplays about 3.000 worker , producing electric
ocemotives and motoro.
e. ?he Arsenal factory employe about 4,000 workers and serves as a repair
Jeep for tanks and artillery.
d. he Kvedrat and Varonno rubber factories have been eepanded conoiderably.
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he motor experimentan .factory Latvijas Berzs employe only Russian
eersonnel and is strongly guardedf. .
l'ae Riga penicillin factory is very carefully guarded. It Is rumored
hat the workers are of the opinion that.penicillin is not being pro
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laced there but that, instead, the factory is involved in production to /
be used in biological warfare.
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?A chemical plant located near the Arsenal is very strongly guarded
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ny MVD troops wearing ordinary MVD uniforms and blue cape. The engineer
ead manager is a Latvian Jew by the name of Jakebsen also an agent of ,
emeroh. No Latvian are employed here. Germans, who preeide the labor. !
ere forced to live holds the factory compound and have no outside contact'
except with officials. Nothing is known concerning its production.
The former Pravodnik Tubber factoey, recently rdbuilt by PW labor, is
eamored to be producing electrical suppliee.
1. he production capacity of the phosphate factory, which reportedly is
eroducing fertilizers, has been vadrupled by the Soviets.
15. Iliollricattqw, In :Riga, as in the ether large cities in Latvia, there has
beer a great Russian infiltration. In Riga, Dauvavpils, Lepaya. and Ye/gave.
aboat 40 percent of the present population is Russian, consisting principally
of rilitary personnel- with families, state officiale, and police officials.
ILO seregesellectkieatieee At present, there are about 2,000 collective farms,
In 3,atvia. Every effort is being made toward further collectivization end
it no intended that the plan for full co/lectivization be completed in c;ne
year.
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Some. indication of the macs deportations which occurred in Lithuania were
Zir:t 'evident in Latvia at the beginning of May 19,4. The railway cars used
for this purpose wore collected at the Telgava station. ..In Rica, Veatspilo.
ead Lepaya all taxi end truck driver were mobilised. On 15 May. about 8,000
MO and MVD troops were roved to the Lithuanian bordee. The deportees were
moved via exec) (Pestse), Yelgava. Krustptio. and Dauegrplle toward. Moscow and
Lemengrad. For this operation, the Soviets used Latvian railroads as a special
prevention against distuxbances by the Lithuanian partieans.
Dureng the deportation,?rany Lithuanian farmers livine. near the border abandoned.thcer farms and escaped to Latvia. Many were seen in Riga0 post of those
seeing to escape in thic way were captured by locel police units and deported,
but some are still bidire: In :Riga. The Lithuanian partisans attempted to help
the civilian population, and heavy fighting took place at maay points between
the Soviets and the partlealaunits.
. The principal reason for this deportation was the desire on the part of the
Soy, ets to break Lithuanian morale, to demonstrate against partisan actevity,
and to destroy the organized resistance against agricalteral collectivieation
whieh had been exhibited by the farmers and a number of intellectuals.
4ViiAlgotatag Two sketches on one page
s'eetch I : Radio Station near Mengalsela
Sketch II: Military and Naval Installationo in the Riga Area.
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