VISIT OF RUSSIAN OFFICERS TO THE HVA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R005800080003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL iNTEE.L(GENCE AGENCY
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SUS.iECT biait of Russian Offia?ra to the HtT/!
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1. staff officers of the H'CIA ware called to a meeting at which
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appra~~ s. wenty Russian officers ware introduc~ad Th? part~r of Rusa-
siana, saw off' whom ware aar~be*_~s of the SIS~i from Karlshorst, was head?d by
(}eneral Petrakovski, who, after being received by Ghefinspekteur Heinrich
Heitach, TNA Chief of Staff, announced that the purpose of the visit was to
provide an opportunity for the HVA officials to raeot the Soviet officer$
who taex+e boinr; aasi~nad to the various departments st co~mnand level to
assist the de}aartme~ chiefs Sn thoir work.
20 Petrakovslci then proceeded to assign thx~e vffic?rs to ~k3itseh, three to
Chefinspekteur Rudolf Doelling~ bend of Hauptabteilung Polit/~Kultur three
to Chefinspekteur Fritz Koehn head of Abteilung Personal, three to ~hefinspek-
teur Hans ?Tulz, and three to ~hefinape~.~teur Hans von ~Teech, head of Hauptab~-
teilun~; Interdantur.
3. The regaining Russians were not assigned to any p~articu].ar department, but
apparently were ao~niaeioned to visit and inspect various sections.
4. One of the Soviet officers assigned to Hauptabtoilung Intendantur was Lt. Col.
~~evirov, who was intraduaed to the departr.~ertt personnel by yon :leach and Russian
General ~~alcarav. ilevirov was especial]y interested in the management of the
vehicle Section of the department.
5o The Saviats appeared to be particularly interested in the matter of security,
and Plevirov stated on one occasion that it had Dome to the attention of the
SKK that ~nfarr.~ation had leaked out which could on3y have cons from the Abtei-
lungen Verschlusasaehen of the PNA. H? did net specify the nature of the in-~
farr..~tion in question.
6., One of the results of the Soviet racam~ndations made during the inspection
tour was the decision to reduce the number of Abteilungen Verschlusssachen to
thrQaF one under Ileitsc}i, one under' van Tlaech and one under Doelling, thereby
supplanting the old system in which each Hauptabteilun~; had its own Abte~.Iung;
Verschlusssachen ~ a amore socure structure, rt was further recommended that
alI documents taken from those Abteilungen should be si/;ned for and returned by
6s 00 P'.2~i. each day.
7. Thra Russian officers left the HVA on 10 June 1950.
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