TYPE OF SCHOOL - RIS AGENT TRAINING SCHOOL FOR INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERESPIONAGE WORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65-00756R000600290001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 6, 1946
• Content Type: REPORT

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VOROSHILOW
TYPE OF SCHOOL- RIS AGENT TRAINING SCHOOL FOR INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERESPIONAGE USSUR17SK
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HISTORY Near Vladivostok
In 1929 in a rJ guerilla raid into the Soviet Union led by Cols MARTINOV new
and MOKHOV, the existence of RIS agent training schools at Khabarovsk,Vladivostok.,
Voroshilov, and Komsomolsk was first established and courses and details regarding
them. During the raid much documentary material and a number of prisoners were
taken including the brother of the famous Far Eastern gaeilla leader,BOIKO.As
late as 1945 further evidence was obt fined that these schools and courses contd
#o exist and that they were eveh considerably larger.
STUDENT. BODY AND LENGf OF COURSE
Students appointed to the RIS agent schools at the above mentioned towns were of Russian,
Chinese,Mongolian and Korean nationalities. Students from Chinas Korea and Mongolia wererec-
ozmnended and vouched for t their national communist parties.
In peacetime the training period at these schools was 18 months.During IM II the training
was shortened to eight months.About 30-40 students graduated from each course. About 50%
were appointed for Frontier Zone work, 25% for activities in the Interior, and 25% for activities
abroad.
A prominent role in the educational program of these schools was played by Lt BARKOV when he
was secretary of the Soviet Consulate in Harbin.
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