POLISH TROOPS IN ELBING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000180005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 11, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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? 10:-?Tho to barracks installations at the northeastern perimeter of :Ming (7,/ 55/Y 90)g,
? one. or. ea',Ihside of the road leading -toward Koenigsberg (R /Z. 66)s vere occupied
by Poliah?troops until October 1950. Soldiers wearing visor cans with a red band
and ) er4 cm wide, red stripes on their trousers wore ob-Prve
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officcrsv school equipood with tanks was said to be stationed in this installation.
Severa times source personally observed five or six tanks on the road to Koenigs-
?:: lie :remembered that German signal battalion had once been quartered in the
? --::instalation. The other barracks installation was alloodl N 71.3
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?-Gormax'ho. e- awn ? ig ar cry oattalion was once stationed in the installation.
2. Until the ? fall?of1950, source often observed 10 to 15 tanks near ul.Grunwaldzkas
? formerly.Tannenborg Alice, coming from the direction of the former Hindenburg
KaseThe on the north side of the former.. Rindenburg Strasse at the eastern perimeter
of Elbings whichs according to local residentop vaa occupied by Polish tromps. The
?:.-rtrews of the tanks, which were said to be *T-34ss wore dark-blue' uniforms and some
sort of crash-helmets. ?*
Anoth(47 barracks installation, occIroiodby Polish troops of an nndotermincd branch
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of soairicei was situated north of Llbin:7, 200 to 300 meters east of 3 ::ay :Arect
? which leads. to the Miff. _...ngincer equipments Including pontoons and bridge sections,
? :vas soanlyinr, about 302 meters westof,this road on the :lbe aver. It was not known
,whethorthe equipmentbolonged to the troops stationed in the nearby barracks instal-
lations Whichhad-Once been.pecupiedby a Gernan ong,ineer battalion.
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The Polish UB (Security Police)
Ice was locatedan the Southeast side of Koeniaborger Strasse? southwest of the
barracks installation on the safm streA. Local reeidents said tiat a now builOdn:
for the UD was constructed on 74indenburg Strase. The office of the ''olish iiiitia
was located on the sane stra)t.
* In aw;ust 1949,, a political high school was said to be located in
le .0271;717alenburg Kaserne? This hi ,;,11. school may be the officers school in the
? barracks installation southeast of Koonig*erger Stras,e. Uowever? since the
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