1. POLISH TROOPS AND AMMUNITION DEPOT NEAR GALKOW 2. POLICE OFFICERS IN BRZEZINY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100790003-7
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 o A barracks installation, border .ng on a woodland to t11 t wrest, was about 500
meters west-=southweot of th3 Ga:Lkow (Q 52/? 13) J ailrc,%, stations south of the
double track railroad line ;,o Lodz (fir: 52/0 93). "he in..t.allation covered an
area of about 300 x 200 rmet., rs and co.tained trc three-; k-,:tir r barracks build-
inCs, each about 30 izeters long, Un Of met ;, a rtai.',4: about 25 meters
lonL,, a mess buildirg, and sore snail off icors4'.illets. Tip, installation was
forrierly a Polish barracks installation whicz ' referred i as an Infanta j
Barracks in April 1950. Ir the :aur:ner of 191;9, 'J rs installst_ r! quartered an
infantry battalion of tromps rsho more khaki. unifn.?ris, rod col. r j atclhaese
and Garr son caps or visork-type service ca; s wits. ~rellow bands, The unit i1d
some horse-drawn vehicles but no. motor vehicles ire observed, %ainir ; Lock,
place in the vicinity of the installation,, Accordi %, to he soldi ^3 the unit
Guarded an armunition depot and occasionally fdugh. uer.il.las in t s aroa
The troops carried German :Wade rifles and ;chine C its., and Itaaliar made rifle
Polish troops were still in the barracks iristallatici in April 195C,
2 . There was an armunition depot o." about 50 acres in ti % woods about .0 meters
southwest of the barracks installation, on the south '_ de of the i:'i , Gta_ kow
Justynow (Q 52/P 03) road. The depot was established ti Core orl.d s. r 1, and
was also used as an ammunition depot in riorld ,aar II; ?ome parts t r :n Morn
up by Polish partisans in 19btt0 The depot was equipped vith a rail: c. spur,
which led to the Galkow railroad station past the nortt. lost corner
barracks installation, and sere d outgoing a runition s ipments rusk?e n; the
25X1X Soviets in 1945 and 1946,, According, to Polish civilians,, -',,he depot wn ~,exated
25X1 X exclusively by troops who were billeted in the barracks ar.staallaatien in
Galkovy,, As they traveled from Gra,lkow to Lodz by train in 1946 and 19b9s
frequently observed loaded freight trains enterir the ammunition
epo o They saw no motor vehicl GGs at the installation:.
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Topic 1, Polish Troops and AirmuniLion I eot near Gal' ow
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In early 1950, the Galkow MO (Militia) office ras lcc a.t d in the po:~t-'ofi'il
building and staffed with about 20 Y0 and OF AO (Citizer:11% '.tia Vcltnnte,.3
Reserve) personnel, the latter ,till r3eorinC khaki uni.f. pins j4 d red an bass?1;.,
with the letters ORVO on tho'r loft sleeves, Railway mi:t..tiaa, called Vilic}.a
Kolejowa. (3'K), were stationed a-I.. the Galkorr railroad sta-,'.on,, They wore
uniforrs similar to ree worn by the '11,0, black visor-ty service caps wits
a dark-blue band, and were armed with rifles.
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4. No barrRic':s or other Polish :rTriy installations c;ere located in Brzezthy
prior to April l950 The ? 0 district her, dquarterr, stff'ed ; tYr 20, to 25 yen
and subordinate to a section of the t`O CenerQl, headquarters on ul. JaraczQ
in Lod .vas on the south side f V, win street runnirr in the direction of
avwa ?`asoyriecka (; 52/P '43)
5, he tJJ (Security Police) district office, staf.r d with about 11;0 r:en., T.,.-'is in
a htii.ldin ; on the rent side of Opposite the town, hall. off ice ".`3d motor vohicles o t- its d spnsul v Accor! n to role . 3 te yreors
,r'a'ved in the IJD co-inted _:,s active Tr.i].itarZ,? dut;,-A The staff of the off ice
included nn o: :`'icor -0? n gore a v'_-or-tyre service car, a dark= blue velvet
bane', and a silver cord,
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