SOVIET TROOPS IN POLAND

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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25X1XL, Soviet troops arrived in Lodz for the first tine on 3 July 1950. All the
schools in the city have been prepared to serve as troop quarters. It is
rumored that one Soviet division is located in Lodz and the vicinity.
2. Soviet troops also arrived in Lowicz (03/1327)? Kutno (Q53/619) and Skier.-
uiewiee (02A45). Accordine to rumor these troops are part of two divisions,
one of which probably bears the designation 270.
One Soviet division is located in Lomza (115079) and Ostroleka (1.64A38)0
according to local residents. Division headquarters is reported to be in
Ostroleka.
At least one Soviet division is located in the area botweon Przemysl (S50055)
and the Carpathian Mountains rivision headquarters is located in Sanok (R50/-
1702) according to local residents.
5. Laree-scale Soviet troop movements have been observed in the area of Moto
Troops are reported to be moving southwestward toward the Soviet-Polish border
in the Polesia region. Troops are constantly on the move.
6. The Poles are being told that the newly arrived Soviet troops are in Poland to
guarantee the peace.
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Igomma: This information is presumably based not 04
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observation but on rumors rife among the Polish population in a time ofpolit-
ical tension. The correctness of the report is therefore extremely question-
able and it is forwarded with relerve. However, it does not seem wholly improbable
that the report contains some basis in fact. The statement that no loss than
five Soviet livieions are in Poland seemsto be an exaggeration. That Soviet
troops have arrived In Poland is indicated by the follpwing recent reports
from sources operating independently of each Others
a. Two hundred Soviet soldiers were observed in KUtno by a fairly reliable
source early in June. Setween 300 and 400 soldiers wore seen in Lodz by
the sane source in late June.
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b. Seventeen thousand Soviet troops assembled in the Lowicz area on 17 June.
According to rumor passed on by a usually reliable source, these troops
mere being readied for shipment westward.
c. Soviet troops were observed in every large town along the Brest Litovek -
Frankfurt/Oder line in early June according to a railroad employee.
d. The London publisher of the Polish newspaper, Dziennik Polski, ran an
article on 3 July on the trial of a Polish citizen Who received a sentence
of four years in prison for "spreading rumors and false information". The
defendent is alleged to have said that schools in Lodz were being prepared
for use as quarters for Soviet troops. Troops were, according to the de-
fendent? already stationed in Lowicz? Kutno and Skierniewice. The article
concludes, "The severity of the sentence can be taken as proof of the fact
that many people in the province of Lodz speak of a considerable influx of
Soviet units. This is also proved by reports from home."
e. These reports on the presence of Foviet troops in Poland are not clear.
The tension since the Korean outbreak is fertile ground for wild rumors.
These rumors may also be based on press dispatches. The movement of roviet
troops into areas west of the points where rail gauge changes from broad
to standard would be a natural step in this crisis. However, rumors may
also be based on the fact that Soviet units were transferred to points
along the Vilna-Warsaw, Brest Litovskarsaw,.Poznanr-Frankfurt/oder and
Lvov-Krakow-Gliwice rail lines for security reasons. No definite comment
is yet possible.
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