MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE KONIN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100780011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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? On Ficvaraber 19507, many Polish soldiers were seen in Konin P 53/O 13),
?c.co:rdi; to Pales, they rrere stationed in I:onin, saw no barraLks
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2. '?he Polish Security Polic3 (UB) office in Konin was about 800 motors south
Of '`,YLe grids e across the ,,:.rtho Rivera There was also an :.:0 (Militia) office
-:x Ionin, UD officers wore Cre;rish-green visor-type caps with red bands and
enlisted personnel greyish- Green visor-tyre caps with dark blue bands?
3In September and October 1950, the main road running through Slupca from
nr.szarra to Poznan was closed to public traf,`ic from 10 p,m. to 3 or 14 a om,
arc stbou_nd motorized trroops passed through Slupca dLrin ; the night, with
vndlvidual vehicles noticed before midnight and convoys after midnight. It
could not be det.-arr:t,:ed whether the troops were Soviet or Pol#.sha k ostbound
troop movements, by rail were also observed at that time. The ''lupca st;tion
Was rope: off by UU sentries,
4, Ian. the st inner of 1950, a Soviet office with a Soviet flag and a sign in Russian
was on the north side of the highway to ?rarszar-a, cast of the junction with
he road vhich runs from the ?ridge across the +arthe :liver to the south,
"?e "ro Soviet officers were seen there once.
25X1X S. Prior to I.0.Novembeer 1950, a line mninterance detachment of allegedly 15 to
cane lieutenant and three MI. The detachment hhd arrived-in Stria :o o
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Cho end of 1947 or the beginning of 1,048 and was quartered ne.?r the church,
1rior to T,overrlber 19149, Soviet tole--hone lines were on Polish poles in Slupca
.long the trunk road from :'Parszawa to Poznan (P 53/X 26). in Iovember, the
li es Were re-strung on Soviet poles b -passing Slupca to the north. The new
wooden poles carried four double line y, and smaller poles erected at a
distance of 30 to 50 meters, two :"ield ?ires, The newly constructed line was
re-connected with the Polish main line between Slupca and Strzalkor,o, The
25X1 A line construction was done by a Soviet construction detail under the
su.,?czvision of three officers in I!ovenbor 1949. *,~
Comment0 The unit in I-onin has not been. identified,
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cmmen o Probably one of the Soviet_ 44W.-cormanications detachments.
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