1. DESERTIONS OF SOVIET SOLDIERS IN POLAND 2. PARTISAN ACTIVITIES ALONG THE POLISH-SOVIET BORDER

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• Document Release Date: November 20, 2008
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• Publication Date: May 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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SECURITY INFORMATION
DATE OF INFO.
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Poland/t3 SR
1, Desertions of Soviet Soldiers
in Poland
a Parfyia rn Activities Along th4
Poliehi ov?iet Bor?derr
REPORT
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26 May 1953
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1, In autumn of 1952, at the time whem the Soviet g. _?{?iso in Poland and East
Germany were being rotated and many military transports were going from
Bialystok into the Soviet Union, via the border pints at Brest and irodmo9
numerous Soviet soldiers deserted from these tr?a.nsports. Soldiers from the
transports routed through Brest deserted in an area knave as Polesies which.
Is behind the Polish-Soviet border., w,fhile those from transports directed
through Grodno deserted in Polish territory before the trains reached Grodno,
2, The Soviet deserters include some Byelorussians and young men of Polish origin
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present Polish-Soviet border, These young men were deported to the Soviet
Union during the war and the immediate postwar period, either with or with-
out their parents, and were not returned to Poland,
Numerous groups of deserters, armed with rifles and light machine guns, roam
the forests on;-either side of the Polish-Soviet border 3 some of the groups
number as many as 50 men, They have obtained food and clothing by holding
up trucks loaded with supplies en route to factories
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Eventually., the Soviet MVD and the Polish KBW (Internal Security Corps)
were compelled to provide armored car escorts to protect the supply trans-
ports on the highways.
4. During December 1952 a number of battles were waged between these partisan
bands and the MVD and KBW troopsy the encounters occurred near Kamieniczka,
east of Ha nowka (S 53/k 17) on Polish territory near Zhabinka and Kobrin,
on Soviet territory., and near Drohoslaw on the Polish -Soviet border,
unknown number of participants were killed and wounded on both sided, but
the MVD and the KBW suffered the heavier casijAlt:1es,
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