AMMUNITION DEPOTS AT REGNY AND GALKOW

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100790004-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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".~ 1r-'or to the beginning of t3overlher x.9509 an extensive Polish an runition depot
wa.s L t-ted in the woods near Iegny (Q 52/P 22) o The depot,, or at least part
o:L irq exieted as early as 1924,. It was partisily demolished at the beginning
of =Tai'ld Jar II. Reconstruction work was started in 1946 or 1917 Zthnic
G._.~?mans who were employed at the depot were gradually replaced by politically
z?~:!.i.. ble Poles o The depot was surrounded b,~? a barbed-wire fence with watch-
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ro cail.road spurs led to the ammunition depot One of these apurs was built
as e lr:Ly as about 1924 and rwt from the Glctvainy (Q 52/P 23) railroad station
t:is 0..u ;h the southern sector of ! owy Redzen (Q 52/P 23)P parallel to and east
o:L Via road to Benny and throug??h. the woods containing the depot at a point
.'bou't,, 4CO meters north of the church in fieg;nyo The second railroad spur, a
s 4, ssthriar?e3s ;,atgre single-track line, branched off eastwards from he trunk line
to =arsavr at a point about 1 kr" north of the church in. x elicjanow (Q 52/P 13)9
par 1leled the trunk line as far as the cer__ete'ryp of Felicjanorm$ ran along the
-,wo-.ern edge of the ;:moods southeast of Bill 215, crossed the eastern sector
o.' S`:ary Redzen, and ran into the woods of Regny0 The construction of the
spur track was started in the sprint of 1949 and,, at the end of October
1, .0, had reached a point where construction trains could run into the woods
of e ny,
4 A ` tie he-inn ~ n of 1948, two companies of Poljrh soldiers were assigned to
th : ammunition depot,
L to November 1950,, true: traffic in both directions was observed daily
on the roads leading to the depot, Freight trains of PLO to 50 cars wore seen
on the old spur track, while only construction trains were soon on the new
r ai.lroad spur Poles working at the depot spoke of continual construction
a .'Iei nodernization work o
lrmiv n`.i.tion Depot at Galkow,
Anot'1her? a uniti.on depot was located in the woods southwest of Galkew (Q 521?
13%). Until the fall of 1950, it was guarded by Polish military personnel
k*o ~7eie stationed in a barracks installation on the western edge of Galkow,
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