MILITARY INFORMATION: SOVIET ACTIVITIES IN EASTERN SIBERIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400230009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Military Information: Soviet Activities in
Eastern Siberia
ORIGIN
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DATCONriDENTIAC
25X1A INFO.
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1. a. The Soviet Per Eastern North Border Garrison Force, stationed in the area
of Mikolayervak (140-40, 53-15), consists of 50,000 healthy men from 18 to
25 years of age.
b. There is a detachment of the Far Eastern Soviet Navy attached to this Force
which is training in the Gulf of Tartary.
c. It is believed probable that the occupation forces in the Kuriles are under
the comaand of this Force and have headquhrters in southern Sakhalin.
d. Contrary to current belief in Siberia that the former Soviet Far Eastern
Expeditionary Force was redrafted to fora this Force, it is thohght that
the Expeditionary Force is still in existence and that the Garrison Force
is subsidiary to it.
2. The Coastal Defense Corps of 30,000 men is at present assisting the Far Eastern
Soviet Navy which is based at Vladivostok in a. Three rear Plan for the recon-
struction of coastal areas. This Corps is under the direct command of Army
General Headquarters at Nikoleyevsk.
3. The Soviet Far Eastern South Border Garrison Farce in Korea is now reconstructing
and enlarging fortifications on the Chaagpai Mountain Range (128-00? 42410) and
in the Yalu Valley. There are 30,000 men comOrising separate detachments of this
Force.
41, It is believed that Dairen and Port Arthur are under direct command of Harbor
Headquarters Li Maritime Military Dietrich.
Forces which apparently are different from those given above exist in a Far
Eastern Detachment of the Soviet National Border Garrison Army which is con-
trolled by the Peoples' Internal Affairs Committee and is not under the command
of Army General Headquarters. This Detactuaext consists of two armies 0/%40,000
men each. Bureya (129-48, 49-48) is the headquarters for the First Arnalwhich
controls the region from Blagoveshchensk (127-30, 50-20) to Khabarovsk (135-05,
48-30). Vladivostok is the headquarters for the Second Army, which controls
Usauri Province,
6. The Far Eastern Penetration
and heavy bombers fi hters
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Airforce operates 4,000 aircraft, including light
and reconnaisance planes. The principal bases are
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7. A Soviet mechanized unit, supporting the Mongolian Peoplels Republic Amy,
is based in the area of the BayerbalanYllbtntaine.
25X1A AMMIIIMUote t Bayerbald Liountains are not Adentified, See 25X1A
paragraph 70 reporting that the Soviet 36 Mechanized Division uts previously
stationed at Delay Seyn Shanda (110-09, 44,i5247
8, Russian led guerrilla units it China are not under the command of Army General
Headquarters but under the Manchurian Board of Investigations, a subsidiary Of
the Far Eastern Bureau. The commander of these units is rajor General Warrov,.
AsercT-ctranol, U,S, OFFICIALS OELY
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