1. MARINE COMMUNIATIONS SYSTEMS, TRAINING OF RADIO OPERATORS AND EQUIPMENT 2. SHIPBUILDING IN POLISH SHIPYARDS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A039900790001-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2010
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• Publication Date: January 21, 1958
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.B.A. Mos. 790 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT 1. Marine Communications S4 tr" ,+rn,,,YU, D E R.
2. Shipbuilding in Polish SttiPYar
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information on Polish marine commun Cat ons sys ems, training
of radio operators., and equipment. most of the
equipment is of Western manufacture, although some is Soviet-made.
are equipped with Soviet radio equipment.
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Gdansk and Gdynia.
in Polish shipyards
Landing craft
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contains very brief information on the shipyard J1RPr
there had been no Soviet advisors
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I. brine Communications
Shipping firms themselves operate wireless communication between the
ships and the shore.
The "Gdynia Radio" is a transmitter which is used for communication
with all ships. The transmitter is located in the naval harbor area
in Gdynia-Oksywie.
PLO (Polish Ocean Lines) has a transmitter which communicates with
ships sailing to China. It is located in Gdynia-Kamienna Gora (Stein
Berg)
"Odra Port Radio" transmitter, which communicates with fishing boats
in the North Sea, is located in Port (near Stettin), in the
vicinity of he railroad station
All the transmitters work on wave lengths according to international
regulations for shipping.
The wireless operators are educated in special courses. Generally,
no code is used in the Polish merchant fleet. In special cases some
people, for instance espionage officers, are sent on special trips;
they get the coded information from wireless operators sad decode it
themselves. The special cases include taking aboard of Communists
in various countries. often in such cases Captain
NEUMANN of Gdansk or Gdynia commands ships with special tasks. Seamen
are recruited to work in espionage when they are caught smuggling;
they are not arrested but continue working as seamen.
Most of the shipping firms have radio repairshops. In some oases
they also use specialists from Ships' Maritime Radio Service (M(RS),
(head office in Gdynia, ul. Zygmunta Augusta, and repair and installa-
tion department in Gdansk-Holm). The department at Holm repairs and
installs radio equipment in most of the Polish ships, even in naval
vessels. The president of this firm, Ludomir BIELINSKI, is a big
Party man.
MORS manufactures.: 1) direction finders; 2) echo sounders (sonars?);
3) radio telephones for fishing boats; 4) ultra short-wave radio
telephones for the MO (civilian militia); 5) automatic alarm systems;
6) automatic sea emergency code; 7) receivers; 8) Wire transmitter
equipment.
Technically the instruments are very poorly made because the firm
does not get any suitable parts. No radar is manufactured by MORS.
The firm "Kasprzak" in Warsaw tried to build radar. The Polish
merchant fleet uses radar with "plan position indicator." Mostoi
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them are of western manufacture, but there are also many of Soviet
manufacture. There is no radio navigation equipment in use
besides radar, direction finders, and echo sounders, not even Loran
or Dacca. The production potentialities of the firm MORS are very
limited because production is not mechanized and the work is done
piecemeal. The head engineer in MCR S is engineer MACKOWIAK, a Party
member and informant for the security service.
Degaussing is done by the Navy.
II. Shipbuilding
Gdansk Shipyards Ships of 1800 - 5000 tons and of 10,000 tons are
built here. They build mainly colliers and general cargo ships, and
most of them for the Snvint TTninn_ The diesel engines are purchased
has been building only steam engines for ships. Now,'however, they
are also trying to build larger diesel engines. The shipyard launches
2 to 3 ships per month.
The Northern Shi rd (Stocznia Polnocna) in Gdansk (in the vicinity
of Gdansk Shipyard )s Only fishing vessels, trawlers and super-trawlers
(a couple of hundred tons) are built here.
The Repair Shipyard (Stocznia Remontowa) at Holm in Gdansk: Ships
are only repaired and rebuilt here.
Shipyvard in Gdynia: Ships up to 4,000 tons are built here.
Repair Shipyard (Stocznia Remontowa) in Gdynia: Ships, including
naval vessels, are repaired and rebuilt here.
There have been no Soviet advisers in Polish shipyards for the last
year,
landing craft (Germans Seelandungsbooten)
or approximately 500 tons. These boats are built in the Torun Shin-
yara on the Vistula and in the yacht shipyard in Gdansk-Pleniewo.
The landing crafts, just like all other Polish naval vessels, are
equipped with Soviet radio equipment.
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