SOVIET MOBILIZATION PROCEDURES AND MILITARY MANPOWER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015000160004-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR/Germany (Soviet Zone)
SUBJECT Soviet Mobilization Procedures and Military
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part of the class of 1930 was inducted in the spring of 1950, and
the other half of the class of 1930 was inducted in the fall of 1950,
as there were only two induction dates in the USSR.- in spring and in fall. One-
half of each class was called in each time. Ionly half of the
class of 1932 was inducted in the fall of 1951.
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3 a One-half of the class of 1928, which was inducted in the fall of 19k8,
took from 15 May to 23 May 1, the men made,tYe trip n civilian
clothes. There were 30. men in each oar; the car consisted of one
compartment with a double tier of benches along the wall, on which
the men also slept. The, men had no blankets, mattresses.,or pillows
on the trip, An NCO was in charge of each car; the number of cars
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unknown to me. There was no kitchen oar to the train and'the men
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was sent to Ahern akhovsk 39 t-21. E via Clazov 809N .5244E
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032E Xe.lgava j8N-234317 >and Sovetak ;'o6N-215OE The trip
4. After induction on 12 gay 51,1Isent to a collection point in
25X1 which was inducted in the %prjng_9FQ4Q wag ill in service
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demobilized in the B.pring of 1951,
25X1 Vote; Information in paragraph 3, move, pertains
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25X1 of their rank and MOS EM instructors-in the
drivers' s-qhool were demobilized even though there
25X1 were not enough. replaeeaen .s
25X1 arrival in Chern akhovsk
placed in'a three-week
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was. permanently stationed in ernyakhova During quare.ntine
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On 14 Jun 51, D about 40 other recruits boarded a-German type
train at Chernyakhovsk and were sent to Frankfurt Oder 221N-14 E7.
via Zheleznodorozhn k21N-2I19 and Poland
arrived in Frankfurt Oder on.. June
and were.e one day in an unidentified replacement depot,
continued to Templin L 307N-13307, Germany the summer
location of the 17th Gds Mecz Regt, 6th Gds Mecz Div, 4th Gds'Mecz
Array. A kitchen car was included in the make-up of the train and
the men were served hot meals.
General
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there was no living space for additional personnel n e
25x1 s Mecz Regt, as the available billets were ver crowded. A.
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room of about 10 x five m held about i__10 teen. Wbo
slept in double-tiered cots in two rows a ong the walls of the room.
There was about one-half m between cots and one m between the two
In November 1951, the 17th Gds Meez Regt received a number of
recruits Lxaot number unknown who were of the class of 1932,
.These recruits had no aa.e a -raining in the USSR and were
'sent to the Soviet Zone of ermany'shortly after their induction in
. the ,USSR "in the Fail .of 1951 there were about 15 men bf
the class of 1928 in the lot Ririe company, 1st Mtz Rifle Battalion,
17th Gds Metz Regt
Most of the TCOs
were of the class of 1926,
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8. EM were seldom granted leave during their term of service. Leave.
for EM was arbitrary with COB0 Usually headquarter8 personnel,
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.political workers and outstanding soldiers were the only EM w1o were
ever granted leaves. Officially, EM were.supposed to be given leave
in cases of emergency (death in family,, severe illness, etc) ; hower .ez
it took. months to-investigate and approve such a leave, and by the
time it was approved the CO might cancel the leave because the emergency
had passed. EM complained between themselves about not getting leaves
but did not make official complaints or demand leave Officers and
everkhsrochniki (Regular Army reenlistees) were authorized 45 dayeb
leave plus travel time, each year. F_ I
all officers tried to get leaves in the spring and
summer
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Ural. MD
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Tauric MD
a officers in the 17th Gds Mecz Regt were Regular
Military Districts.in the USSR:
Miscellaneous
ll,.Eight Soviet females arrived in the 17th Gds Mecz Regt in the tall
of 1951 as replacements for all German' female employees of the 17th
Gds ,Meru Regt. These girls had been called by the Rayvoyenkomat and
asked to volunteer for duty in the Soviet Zone of Germany, and
all.accepted. The girls were between 20 and 24 years of age,
wore officers' uniforms with EM shoulder boards, and received the
pay of civilian employees (about 700 East Marks' and 600 rubles
monthly) They lived in separate billets, two to a room. Two girls
were typists at the Headquarters of the 17th-Gds Mecz Regt and six
were waitresses in the officers' messhall. These ,girls had a double
mission to : do their assigned duties and to associate with the
officers They did not associate with the EM,,, One of the girls
committed suicide in May 1952 after a quarrel with an officer. 1Two
other girls became pregnant and were returned to the USSR. All of
the other girls had secret abortions, All these details are-true
.And were common knowledge of the EM of the 17th tads Mecz Regt,
a female lieutenant in Eberawalde
uas there with a censorship unit.
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