1. WOP UNIT IN THE KOENIGSBERG/NEUMARK AREA NEAR THE SOVIET ZONE BORDER 2. BORDER ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100790006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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to Prior to late parch 19510 a border sector headquarters, a trainin unit
of the '!0P (Border Guard Carps), and a do,-,handler section -rier3 in buildin..Zs
on u], Dworcowa, forr:terl.;;r Rshntc3 trrsse, in Koonigsber,-/Peunark (Chojna)
(0 53/Q 40). * WOP detach : eats were in Poet.zig (21 '3/Q 30), Raduhn (i 5h/
T 64), :Iohcn-SKraon i g and Ni ieder~-~ICr aeni ('N 54/G ) a) 1':I.d:i ich o, (0 5' /Q 1j2),
and Greifen tare n (0 i/Q 5"),, The detachments in Itaduhn and Poetzif? each.
consisted Z about 30 WOP troops v?eo wore caps with -seen bands,
Observation tenors, 10 to 12 meters hi hs were erected at Radshn, Peetzig:,
IIohen-Kraeni ;, and Nieder-X aenig in ".'arch 1951., The area of the Radu; n
detachment was patrolled by +TOP personnel. about every three hours by day
and *,,out ovary four hours at night,,
Border Zone a
2. A line marked by ??;osts with signbc+.-rds inscribed ''"order Zone Off ui.mnits"
in red letters ran parallel to the bonder at a distance of '10 M no The
residents of this zone had cert7f catrs which were azutomatjcai1ir .ssucE
by the border sector ~,.eadgnarters tbrou :tip the local ar:t!h on tics 0 Visitors
intending- to enter the 'horde r zone had to be cleared by the corder sector
headquarters in Keeni5sberg., They were 1-sued !:%en,ri.t,c, Which stated the
bearers Identity and his r-eason for the trip to he border zone;,,
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