AIR CADETS' REVOLT AT BAKU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200080050-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: July 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Air Cadetsi Revolt at Baku
DATE DISTR./ -?Ju1 1954
F THE UNITES STATES. M'"N IN THE NEAMIMS OF TITLE 14. SECTIONS 791
MS 704. OF THE Y.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RESE-
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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NO. OF ENCLS.
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REPORT NO.
1. Students in the Aeronautical School at Baku, described as "adjutants,"
but presumably cad ts, have complained to the "School Soviet" of their
treatment. They ve--or so they say--for sometime been treated as if
they were nee wide disciplinary punishment, by their commandants. No
reason for such t tment is stated. It may be merely unusual severity
(or what students regarded as unusual severity) in school discipline.
The air students further complained that the food and the clothing provided
for them left aach'to be desired.
2. These complaints hod not passed through channels, that is, through the con-
#andantts headquarters, before reaching the Soviet. The students were there-
fore considered to'be in a state of =tiny. They were deprived of still
other privileges. At this point, a school meeting was called. Students took
the floor and expressed their opinions in no uncertain terms, in an effort to
influence their fellows.
There was a freeaswith results that are described as 'bad enough."
4. Colonel Zvgeni I.azoreff was hurried from Nuche to investigate the affair.
3. The coa^andant attempted to break up the meeting by force and net with physical
resistance from his students--an extraordinary situation in a military school.
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