REPORTED POLISH RESISTANCE MOVEMENT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700120024-0
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: July 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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~oamieni. The following is a summary of an article in the
14 April 1953 Le Journal d'Alger, a conservative Algiers daily
newspaper. The article was said to have been "sent by its Parts
office" and was entitled "Held in Check by an Implacable Resist-
ance, the Sovietization of Poland Is Apparent Only.'
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Anti-0ommunist Poles next undertook successfully to blow up the mons-
ments dedicated to Stalin in Gliwice, Zabrze, and Katowice. And although
strongly guarded, the "Blue Express" was derailed twice again, killing
hundreds of Soviet soldiers, including a general. In September 1952, a
train from East Germany loaded with goods being shipped as reparations
Jumped t:~e tracks near Chodziez in western Poland. There too, the Polish-
Soviet secret policy were caught napping. Long freight trains are often
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The present anti-Soviet resistance movement in Poland, which began dur-
ing the final months of World War II, is larger than was the movement a~ainat
Hitlerism. There is an armed resistance group called the "Narodowe 511y
ZbroJne" (National Armed Forces) which engages mainly in propaganda and
seeks the re-establishment of the former Polish frontiers. A second group,
the "ArmJa Kra,jowa" (Hoax Army) is the nucleus of the partisan artgy. Con-
servative estimates by the secret services of the Western nations place
the total strength of the two groups at a minimum of 80,000 men. The fight-
ing units hide out mostly in inaccessible regions and must certainly have
their bases of operations in the Carpathians. They get their arms, muni-
tions, and supplies by raiding Soviet and Polish depots.
In April 1951, when the Szczecin insurrections took place, more than
1,500 persons were arrested. Later, near Glosgow, a coal train bound for
the USSR was derailed. In one night, two supply depots in Krakow were
raided by men carrying aucoms'ic arms. On another day, as the "Blue Ex-
press," crack Soviet long-distance train, was skirting n lake west of Frank-
furt on the Oder, it suddenly plunged into the lake; a section of the track
had been pried loose a~l.its course altered. The rails of the ChoJna rail-
road were unbolted several times at the beginning of 1952?
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Political -Resistance movement
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED Algiers
DATE
PUBLISHED 14 Apr 1953
LANGUAGE French
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AIR FBI
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stopped. in the open country by barricades or as a result of the rails bein6
unbelted. The armed escort and the train crew are often killed and the
train then looted. '
In recent times; sabotage and attacks in the part of eastern Poland
occupied by the Soviets have likewise been stepped up. Because of fre-
quent attempts to destroy rails and bridges, txo relief trains have been
kept constantly on the alert in Brest Litovsk since the erid of September
1952.
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