CENTRAL ANTIFA SCHOOL AT OGRE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400390008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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5, a. The Ogre Central Training Camp headquarters had the
following personnel:
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY, U SR (Latvian SSR)
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SUBJECT Central Antifa School at Ogre
DATE DISTR. 9 Feb. 1952
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO. OF ENCLS. 3
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Ogre (PW Camp No 2040
Following is informat
assigned" former etude
chool in
1. The Antifa course part attended by
about 1,200 students o~v~o=?-- subversive
activities. These acts, which were to be committed in their
home countries, were called a "Policy of Persuasion."
2. The students were told in Ogre that their subversive actions
would greatly contribute to the final victory of Bolshevism.
3. Several Ogre students were assigned special missions when
they left the school.
4. Addresses of some former Antifa students from the Ogre camp
are known. Y.
Camp commander:
Colonel Stabin - ant MVD officer
MVD officers;
Captain Pinkelgass - an smigree
Lieutenant Nagurin
Officer in charge of the political school:
r'rofessor Naumann - an emigre'e
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Officer in char a of instruction course from July
to December 1949: Julius Teigel - uttgart-KQvnwestheim
(L 49/S 02)
Assistants in charge of instruction course:
Karl Steilberger - released to the French Zone of
Germany in December 1949
Holderith - released to Augsburg (M 49/1 37),
US Zone of Germany, in ')ecember 1949
Rudi kilemeier - released to the French Lone of
Germany in December 1949
Maier - released to the French Zone of Germany
in December 1949
-Chief of radio office:
hans Schuberg - Soviet Zone of Germany
German camp leader:
Karl Handtke, Western Zones of Germany
,O ttuddents (addresses available):
Ewald Wuetz - Rottenburg, on the Neckar River (torte
to the party line)
Helmut Rehmann - Steinbach (L 49/X 54) near Biberach
( to the party line)
b. About 2,000 men,inc~uding about 90 officers, attended
the instruction course
c. PW were sent to the Ogre instruction courses on a
voluntary basis. A propaganda campaign to recruit students
for the course was conducted in several Phi camps. It was
stre,sed that participants in an instruction course had pros-
pects of early release; it is believed this announcement was
responsible for about 50 percent of the volunteers:
d. Subjects included the history of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union (Bolshevist), German philosophy, Gean an
histor y, the international situation, the possibility of
the use of atom bombs by the Western Powers and the Soviet
Union.
e. Graduates were assigned special missions in the discharge
campr.in Frankfurt/Oder when released. All Ps who went to the
Western Zones of Germany were to act as saboteurs4at their
places of employment, and to influence their fellow work-
men to strike and to participate in demonstrations. Some
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of the former PtNs wsee ordered to join the. Communist
Party of Germany (KPD), while others were told to avoid
the party, joining other parties or remaining indepen-
dent, thus being able to render underground support to
the KPD. Several returnees were advised to establish
FDJ groups and associatiorB for Soviet-German friend-
ship in their home, country.
f. The most reliable graduates, pafticularly those who had
been assistants'during the courses., were assigned functions
in the Soviet Zone of Germany.
6* -L'ULU.L7IVU5 W110 Were to cooperate immediately wl
the KPD'were told not to establish contact with a party office
until ,'contacted. The provincial boards of the. KPD would
receive the identification papers, efficiency reports, etc.
of the returnees and then order their functionaries to
establish necessary contact.***
I Comment: Sery Ann es 1 and 2 for sketches of location
and layout of the .school.
Comment: See Annex. 3 for names :md some former
students of the school.
IQomment: The statements by the former PWs agree, with
information from other sources that some of the PWs who
attended Antifa Schools and similar institutions were assigned
certain missions, and that the KPD is contacting graduates from
these instruction courses. A number of such Aitifa men have
already assumed leading positions in the KPD.
vexes: 2 sketches,
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Layout of the Ogre Central Training Camp No. 2040