POLISH TROOPS IN SORAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000180003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The following units were seen moving into the barracks installation on the
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eastern perimeter of Sorau, on the south side of the road to Sagan (0 52/B
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An artillery unit. Twelve artillery pieces of 100 to 120 mm, towed by trucks,
were repeatedly observed with the unit. The guns had two wheels with rubber
tires and mounted a barrel, which measured about 4 meters from breechblock
to muzzle. ,s The personnel of the unit were issued new uniforms and caps with
red bands in the fall of 1950. ** The unit was last observed in the installation
in early 1951.
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An artillery unit, apparently an AT artillery battalion. The unit was organized
into 3 batteries with motorized guns of about 100 mm, which were low built,
had 2 dual tires and mounted an unusually long barrel. The personnel of this
unit were also issued new uniforms and caps with red bands in the fall of
1950. The unit was last observed in the installation in December 1950.
A motorized infantry unit. The unit was last observed when it moved into
the installation upon its return from the 1950 fall maneuvers. ip'pk
2. The military post hospital was established in the former insane asyliua in the
northeastern sector of Sorau. The UB (Security Police) office was located in
a reconstructed former private building on a side street of former Bahnhof-
strasse, 100 to 500 meters northwest of the railroad station. A militia office
was located in a former private building on the west side of the Ring.
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* Comment. Possibly Soviet 122-mm howitzers.
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which the units in Sorau, in the fall of 1950, were furnished with new grey-
blue uniforms, but retained the red cap band, which is indicative of units
assi ned to a mechanized or tank division. `See 25X1A.
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infantry and motorized artillery troops. See . The 11th P,Tecz
Div is carried in Sorau. The units mentioned in the present report are probably
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of this division. The AT. artiiT(ry battalion is apparently equipped with
Soviet 100-mm AT guns. A report of January 1951
that, in addition to these units, an SP artillery unit-and an armored
reconnaissance unit, which may belong to the mechanized regiment, were
W&d in another section of the barracks installation.
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