PARTISAN ACTIVITY, DEPORTATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE VITINI AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900230006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SEGR~J
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Latvian SSR)
SUBJECT Partisan Activity; Deportations, Communications,
and General Information on the Vitini Area
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794,. OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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D ortati.ons
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was de de orto?tedationsfrosli in Vj:t3ni Latvia at were in March 199, but only one perso
that time. _ ' One member, 'of' the ? atnilyu
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n Aprzl 1951 from an MTS -stetiQn Omsk_s in that It "iaas - extaamei
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cold., at rio heat was provided in the bare huts in which the' deportees lived,
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and packages from.the deportees iiat1not to-.visit .them. In March-1951, 075 wagons of deportees traveling through Auce from the direction or Sa]. ucs.s.
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little IIpart$.san activities" a cce t for one much talked
of incident which' occurred in Iielauce (56-28N,-23m55E), north of Auco9 in
1950-'when forty partisans, GE'rman and L'atvian9 -were surrounded "by Rd siins
and elimifiateda Half of "t ie Rvissieii_tf66p6 aiid all 'the part-Is6hii7 are rep sited
.to have been killed. ?Farmers who had given assistance to the partisans were.
deported,
2, There was an istrebiteli division in Auce,which was inactive
Its members d at other jobs but were supposed to be on call.
40 one' deportee IIreturi ed from-_` Siberia with false docume t
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which he had obtained for 500 rubles from a `Communist party official and set 4-1 &
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in another area from that in which he had pr viously lived.
Postal Communications
Letters sent within Latvia are not checked
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twenty kopecks. -A letter to Riga' from Vitini -tikes too days 0- 'Lette'rs to -Siberia
take one week, cast fifty kopecks and"are believed to 'be 66ritrOIleda- Packages
may be'sent within the USSR up to the weight of five kilograms and cost two
rubles.
Telephones
There are no'private tOIephones"in the area of Vitini, and the only ones available
are in the kolkhoz administration.
General
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7, The villa of Vitini is divided into' two'kolkho consists ~"5f 40 hauses,
each; The houses are separate at present,"but he
25X1 Soviets planned to"build eehtral_ apartments ari offices for e o ozy and
destroy or move the scattered houses.
Na Russians worked-in the koIklioz3 _iri -Vitini'"although the miajority. of the
workers in nearby- savkhozy- were "Rtissiana --Many Ri eiaiis worked- i Tthe miII_ iii-_
25X1 uses because .it._served es a cOritril'point--for'Latviaris "siibinitting'the'regiii.red
amount of. ' grain to the state e iid..p? ided _a_good opportiinity'for- graft. In
addition to the mill's Auce's; ina%n 'industry is " a wo"ol factory, It " als "has a i
NITS station and a hospital ithi. o ne-Latvian" doctor and-two' hu: *ses.
25X1 medical care and hospitalization were free, but not medicine,
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