(SANITIZED)PLO CENTRAL OFFICE/ROOM 34 PERSONNEL/PROCEDURE FOR DISMISSING SAILORS/PORTERS LODGES/PROVOCATION OF SAILORS/PLO LANDED ESTATES(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500290097-1
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: January 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
PLO Central Office/
'Room '00:Peri:to:mil3./ Procedure fox' pismi85in6 Sailors/
P-Ortere es o7ocation of Sailore/PLO Landed Satat
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DATE DISTR Jen 1934
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CENTRAL PLO OFFICE
2. "The central office of PLO (POLEMIC LINE OGEARICZNE) ie located at Uliea 10. Lutes?
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LOCATION OF PLO
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This report is for the use within the USA of the Intelligence components of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It is not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating office through the Asetstant Director of the Office of Collection and Dissemination. CIA.
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3. "On the second floor of the building is the notorious POKOJ 34 (Room 34), the windows
of which open on a courtyard. Thi t; in the headquarters for' the department of PLO which
determine:, thP -eliabilitv of sailorsiomployed by the company and which handles any die-
missals. ; the department consists actwoly
of several rooms which have a common entrance 6arwub. Aoom 34.
ROOM2F1...1.2ETAI
The duties of the PersonE31-1:17:Pector include collecting data about
the crews and oiTicers serving on the i ships of PLO.
5. "Another important officur involved L dismissing seamen in Engineer (Thu) NES
He works in the Technical Inspection Department (iserekcjaltechniczna) PEU77
It is bin duty to gl.ve a rverdict on all shipping accidents that have oc-
curred, verdicts which have frequently serious consequences for the culprits
"A six-man commission meets regularly,: under the chairmanship of NESTORO1I1C1. The moni-
tors are ZEHROWSEI and four other inspeators from various departments of PW. : They
meet once or twice a week to determine whose sailing permit or Pram Plywania is to be
withdrawn.
PROCEDURE FOR DISMISSING A SAILOR
6. "The procedure at these meetings is as follows:
a. The culprit is called to Room 34, where :he is thoroughly interrogated, pirticularly
with regard to his presumable politicali'crima'. Of elcuree, the interrogators
are helped by the data in the man's personal file and on his card in the personnel
card index. At this meeting allthe personal documents of inspect are taken from
him and he receives a so-called Obiegove Kerte or circulation card instead. Ho
is then allowed to leave and return to his pleic: of work.
b. During the following weak or so this card must be prat:anted, stamped, and signed at
six different agencies. They are:
ZMP in the same PLO building (if the sailor involved is a member of the ZMP)
TOKWRZYSTWO PRZYJAZNI POLSKO- at Ulioa Beietojanska in Mynia; in
the same there aro a. bUr of plaoes of entertainment.
KOM1TET MARYNARZY PZPR (i.e., the aP), and the
ZWIAZEK ZAMODOWY TRAMPORTOWCOW berth of which have their premises in the
same building at Ulica Weglowa in Gdynia.
and (6; ,Tho two sailors' bones: in Gdynia at Ulica Czolgistow in Gdansk
ort. The director of the home is ?tea
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It is compulsory to call at those two sailors' homes, even if one has never
lived there; the reason preaunablY is that the directors are CP agents and
probably know something about every sailor. Hare it might be added that these
sailors' homes are so expensive that it is impoaeible to live in them if one
has no extra income as, for example, a CP functionary or UH agent. Ordinary
seamen usually live elsewhere.
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6. (cont'd.)
c. When about a week to 10 days have passed, the culprit is again called to Room 34
This time he is formally dismissed and his dismissal given him in writing on a
special form. Simultaneously he is given another job - in '..he fishing fleet if he
is lucky: on land more usually - or elap he is advised to look for a job him-
self.
d. If a dismissed sailor enquires why he was fired, he may sometimes be told what; were
the political crimes he was accused of, but this has no practical value for him:1
the commission has already decided his dismissal in advaLfte, and all protests only
make the victim's situation worse.
e. However, the matter is not closed yet. After 10-14 days the victim is once more
called to Room 34 of PLO and thin time he is dismissed finally. He loses toe job
he got so recently and nobody bothers about what he will do in the future. Need=
less to say, his chances to get a job are rather small in a 'socialist' state.
f. It frequpntly happen.; that sailors, growing desperate, lose their self-control and
damn the regime publicly or else swear at the commission. In such ceu3esahe UB is
usually called and the man arrested at once; if he is allowed to leave, he is
arrested later at home.
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Sometimes it also happens that the dismissed sailor is later arrested even if he
did not say or do anything detrimental to the regime. At other times dismissed
sailors simply disappear without leaving a trace. People say thea: 'Oh, he is not
in Gdynia any longer,' (sjuz go w Gdyni, nie ma ...'), and everybody knows what it
means.
PORTER'S LODGES
7. "All correspondence to the intended victims is sent from PLO via the two porter's lodges.
In these lodges (portiernie) there are large slleets on which the locations of. all PLO
ships as well as other ships subordinated :to Room 34 are noted with special coloured
cards (name of Polish harbour and quay but not if the ship is at sea). Also neted
are the places of work of all the seamen on lend. (addresses of building sites, ship-
yards, accidental jobs, etc.). 1 Similar sheets can be
found in the techl-ical inspection department (i.e. in NESTORGUCWo department) and
in the two exploitation departments on the second an thrid floor of the PLO building
The general director of PLO and certain departments also note the location of all ships
on wall maps every day.
PROVOCATION OF SAILORS
8. "In their attempts to discredit sailors and invent motives for the:: dismissal, Room 34
(i.e. the department of POLSME Lilaz OCEANICZNE which determines the reliability of
seamen serving on tha PLO ships) resorts even *Cu provocation.
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DISAPPEARAME OF SAILORS
9. "According to certain rough calculations, about 750 Polish seamen have vanished without
1eav..2g a trace between the beginning of 195' to July 1951. The total number of vanieen7
seaman durin '2 was b
10. in the foreets
between Chojnice and Fordon in Polish Pomerania there is a special caxp, the inmates
of which are seamen without exceptions. This camp should not be confused with another one
in the neighborhood of ]der. The first-namedlcamp is strictly secret and no details
: are available about Conditions there.
:PLO LANDED ESTATES
Ll. "PLO has also its own Pms or landed estates. A dismissed seaman can voluntarily apply
for work on one and usually gets it. Sometimes sailors working on land as idaymes' are
sent to work at a PCE. Such PGRs can be found between Szczecin
and Kolobrzeg and in the neighborhood of Tczew and of Elblag.
"In such a PGR belonging to PLO and located in the neighborhood of Elblag an old colonel
works as a cowherd, because his great age makes him incapable for other work. His col-
league cowherd is a sea captain (kapitan zeglnRi wielkie.1)
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,man was sent to a Polish source for 'captains of ormancoinv
:vessels (sapitanow zertiugi wiencieil but refused to attend to his stliciit.s
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12* (coat'd.)
He was dismissed at a moment's notice, not only frost the coutse but also from PLO '
although he was a highly skilled captain withexnellent professional reputatton his
opinions were:ahit too independent for the powers that be. this
captain had then workea as a 'daymani on ships{ acting as a watch
officer. lam dismissed from this job, he WOrked in the cold storage hou; at Ulica
P0161a in Gdynia, dealing with fruit, eggs and bacon. Eft was nga;:ndismiased and joined
the PGB near Elblag. No wander there is a Shortage of profeseioaellY Pkille d seamen,
as indicated :32 frequent official announcements. '
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