MVD AND MGB ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010800150004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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25X1 R (;?lr :it r Of the , b .. The >8:o tZ i, -: pu."i :...e7;';'s`
c3' =.crihr,)d in the pre son renr?.rt now indicate tlu?` tho 1"J, "tia ins t'~le
V 3"S"1'i,. Esrld the Border Guard Troops are assi ;n d to the ,"Gi3a and thus.
cc,Y9'iii7, the hypothesis, i,:r the reference report, that all 5o1Fi~ lecur..ty
Tro(-fo (Border Zluard Troops) in the Soviet Zone of Germany are un uer tha
c(" r trcl. of the MGD,, The nevimiaper items describmd in ..;n -present 'F 'ort
are contradicted by a broadcast fr( Khabarovsk hi ch on 2"? January 1951,
nert1oned the chief of the Admin stration of the Redbannor Border guard
Troops of the 'TD in the '1aharevs?: tirai.: However,, since ra .ort s on such
`~r.c,adcasts are subject to error, the broadcast informati-on is riven less
credence than the newspaper rercrtsr. There Is still, 'owever, the pos:',,:i` it ty,
l'a3 LiCC l p" tPZrL,7L'. it may ,..ok that'order Guard Troops in ! eci. ?i c "(fit ti nn
of the ray still be under the jurisdiction of the r,?VD It is 1,1e1"?
a``.r ` yr P mthly be1i.o'ired th t The Border Guard Troops are under the control
of the '1'05" itis ;u i.nC that all troops v;'ith r roen epaulets in V -e Soviet :I'one
of Cnnr:,.any a ?e. Border Guard Trocp-s, it would be appr?o.?ri.at: henceforth to
refer t f'7 "t.yN''se troops as n'GrB Troons.-
25X1A -o;rr^v rtt,. A lop1.ca l consequence of the above ir1S`(~x?ence C,'Ul(j hh}d the
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