SOVIET INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY MAJ GEN P. A. DIBROVA

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SOV]I.T INTE. LLIGE Cc - AND SECUR]
Maj ?,en P;A. DIBROVA
Source: A clandestine source of established authenticity.
The following summary of information on Maj (' -nom Petr Alekse_nda~ovich ,
DIBROVA includes previously reported and unreported informs on available from
source as wall as certain information obtained from other sources. DIBROVA was
fairly well known to source over q, period of months prior to 19 Apr 56, when
he (DIBROVA) left his duties in BERLIN to undergo medical endnation in MOSCOW.
Apparently for reasons of health DIBROVA never fully resumed his dual role of
Chief of the Directorate of the Military Commandant of .the Soviet Sector of.
BERLIN, and Chief of the Central Military Kommandatura of the Soviet Sector,
City of BERLIN. positions which source reports DIBROVA held since at least 1952.
.In mid-June 19J6, according to another source, DIBROVA was replaced by Maj Gen
A. S, SHAMOV.
II. Subordination and Duties
The positions of Garrison (or Military) Commandant and Central
Kommandatura'Chief called for DIBROVA to supervise border control on the Ring-
round-BERLIN, liaison with the East Germans and Western representatives in
BERLIN and fulfillment of logistic requirements of other Soviet military
elements in the city.' He was also asked to meet visiting Soviet dignitaries.
Prior to the down-grading of the GSFG Frontier Control Directorate to
a department in January 1956, DIBROVA often discussed border control operations
and policy with the directorate Chief, Gen MALYI; thereafter DIBROVA's contacts
with the Special Service Department, of the GSFG Operations Directorate under .
.the GSFG Chief of, Staff (Col Gen A.P. TARA.SOV), which supplanted the directorate,
were loss numerous. Presumably K=-T s under theGSFG Chief of Staff.
DIBROVA was also often* in touch with Marshal A.A, GRECHKO (CinC,GSFG) by means
of a "V.Ch" telephone, '-.o. one regarded by the So e s as a secure means of
communication, and he has worked within the framework of border control directives
issued by the CinC. DIBROVA occasionally received directives from the GSFG
Chief of Staff's office,
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 DIBROVA was in daily contact with senior officers of the five independ-
ent garrison battalions (referred to by the Soviets as "Co-.mandant's Battalions")
under the Central Komm%ndatura and of battalion control points encircling the
Western Sectors of BERLIN.* Matters ranging from the detention of Allied soldiers
to border-crossing by dogs on a clandestine mission received his personal
attention. A conversation on 15/17 Jan 56, which indicated the nature of his
duties as well as certain personal characteristics, was one of several dealing
with infringements of the Soviet Sector by Western troops.** DIBROVA reportedly
ia8ued instructions for establishing Soviet Sector boundaries and setting .
up boundary stones in 1952, but the work was interrupted in 1951+ and still was
unfinished in February 1956. When the wife of Maj Can ,F,...B_. _ROM, British GOC,
BERLIN was scheduled to pass through a Ring-round-BERLIN control point on route
from MAflINBORN on 11 Apr 56, DIBROVA repeatedly urged the control point commander
to salute, permit no hold-up in her passage, and to make the meeting "cultured."
Officers under DIBROVA made representations to Allied authorities
regarding Ea.st4est incidents in BERLIN; these incidents were particularly
numerous soon after the handover of some BERLIN Garrison functions to the East
Germans (DIBROVA disapproving) following the signing of the USSR-CSR State
Sovereignty Treaty in September 1955. During this period DIBROVA was beset with
border control problems, for a final order delineating Soviet and Fast German
responsibilities had-not been issued. But although he was consulted on border
control policy matters and despite his "lobbying" with the Chief of Staff and
other high-ranking GSFG officers, DIBROVA's recommendations, like those of
Gen MALYI, were ignored in the final directive signed by Marshal GRECHKO in
early December 1955. In March 1956 again DIBROVA'-s objections were over-ridden
by GRECBICO, who this time deleted portions of a directive which would have
required special documents for "our mi:seions."
Logistic and administrative support was provided by DIBROVA for other
GSFG components stationed in BERLIN, including the 28th and ,.9th'Speoial Purpose
Radio Regiments and at least three detachments, all subordinate to the GSFG
Intelligence Directorate. Members of one detachment were known to have been on
the ration strength of the Garrison; DIBROVA sometimes talked with the heads
of the detachments; some telephonic comimnioations with the two signals regiments
were routed via the Garrison battalion at TELTOW*when the regiments were
stationed at BlRLIN/ Stahnsdorf; and a proposal was made in August 1955 for
DIBROVA to establish a reception center for voluntary defectors.* -
DIBROVA presumably was representing the Soviet Garrison when he met
visiting Soviet-officials in BERLIN. At the request of Marshal GRECBKO,
DIBROVA on 24/25 Nov 55 was to meet an "important guest" and-his wife, coming
in the marshal's personal car from Hq,GSFG, to BERLIN for a tour -of the city..
apparently to be conducted by DIBROVA. *aaa* When Army Can A. S. ZHADOV, Deputy.
CanC,'Ground Forces, Ministry of Defense, and Col Can T.T. KOROVNIKOV, Chief
of Motor Transport Directorate, Ministry of Defense, were in BERLIN during
The battalions are located at GROSS CLIENICKE, TELTOA, 1O RLSHORST,
BERNAU, and KOENIGSWU.ESTERHAUSF1.
The verbatim text of this conversation is attached as Appendix A.
This reception center. may have been operationally controlled by the
Intelligence Directorate.
saaa?.Although the identity of the "important guest" -was not divulged, he
may have been Soviet Minister of.Agriculture MATSKEVICH, who arrived
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 early April 1956, they visited DIBROVA. The Commandant 'balked , however, at the
suggestion that he matt four Ministry of Defense officials, among them one
marwhal, at SCHOEN ELD Airfield in B IN on 6 Oct .55; it was?.not his
responsibility, claimed DIBROVA, unless Marshal I.Kh. BA(RAM!AN, Deputy Minister
of Defense, was a member_of the party.
The zeal with which DIBROVA protected his authority from encroachment
by others was shown not only by his reluctance to turn over certain border
control duties to-the East Germans. Thinking that Gen MALYI was interfering
with the nomination of a replacement of an officer at a control point, DIBROVA
on 13 Dec 55 exclaimed: "What business is it of his? I have my men, and I
know my men. This is nw responsibility." During the course of'a lengthy
criticism of the GSE'G Frontier Control Directorate on 30 Dec 55, DIBROVA
asserted: "It is our business to know most about BEFMIN." Told by a GSFG
Barracks Service officer on 1/6 Apr 56 that a question had arisen about
returning a awiimning pool to the Germans, DIBROVA protested: "No; What
are we to have -- another boss in the compound," After thrice saying "on no
account," DIBROVA eventually agreed.-
Not feeling well, DIBROVA in November 1955 entered a CSFG hospital,
where he was advised to trice three day's rest. Shortly thereafter he booked
leave sterting on 1 Jul 56. In late 'January and early February he was again
on sick leave. DIBROVA said on 8/9 Mar 56 that he had been "Chased into a
hospital" for exsnination but there had refused to take an intravenous
injection of "colouring matter." He showed annoyance with the hospital
authorities for 'having released him without a proper diagnosis and especially
for their having written in his book that he had refused the injection.
Apparently indignant over their failure to make a firm diagnoses of what he
believed might be a floating kidney, DIBROVA called them "horse doctors". and
said he thought they might kill him. A full report on the matter, he added,
would go to the CinC. The seriousness of his illness, probably cancer of the
stomach, did not become apparent until April 1956, and even then Maj Gen
V.Z. CHPOV, Chief, GSFG Medical Directorate, seemed to withhold his disis
from DIBROVA.
In a long talk with CHERTOV on 12/12 April, DIBR.OVA showed signs
of nervousness over his illness. At the hospital in East Go= any. where the
trouble had been diagnosed as a tumor "behind the peritoneum," it bad been
recommended that DIBROVA go to MOSCOW for further a nination as "two heads
are better than one." CHERTOV attempted to raise DIBROVA's spirits, saying
that since the symptoms were of such long standing the operation could be
nothing serious and that it was a 100-to-1 chance of the operation not being
successful -- DIBROVA should not "let such an idea enter your head." DIBROVA.
agreed but added that at times the thought did enter his udnd. With permission
granted by the CinC, DIBROVA left on 17/16-April for an unspeniiled "acadery" in.
U0SC01#. Subsequently CHWOV stated the trouble was the "same as Aleksandr
Pavlovich'a, i.e. Col Gen Aleksandr Pavlovich TARASOV, GSFG Chief of Staff,
who underwent an operation for stomach cancer,
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DIBROVA numbe g his' professional contacts:
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 A. Senior Officers
Marshal GRECHKO - CinC, CSFG. What transpired between DIBROVA and
GRECHKO in their "V.Gh." telephone conversations and in their face-to face
meetings is not known, except that twice DIBROVA's recommendations on border
control matters were turned down by GRECH10 in issuing directives. DIBROVA
occasionally procured special items for the CinC; on one occasion, in October
1955, he was called upon by one of Marshal CREOHKO's aides to supply two brands
of American cigarettes, admittedly not for sale on the?East Ger an market.
With the marshal's aides DIBROVA was. on friendly terms, although he was taken
aback when one member of the CinC's staff confided that he would like a "plum"
in the BERLIN Garrison rather than to remain with Marshal GRECBKO; the officer,
who believed that he did not have an opportunity for promotion in his present
position, eventually was transferred to the KARLMARXSTADT area. Fins. (or
Yanina) Vladimirovna DIBROVA, wife of the commandant, was on exceptionally good
terms with Mrs. IClavdi Vladimj vna GRECHKO. On 19 Apr 56 it was stated that
Mrs. DIBROVA had carrie out "the commission", presumably the procurement of
certain goods in BERLIN, on behalf of Mrs. GRECHKO.
Gen MALYI - Chief, Frontier Control Directorate; GSFG. Their cordial
professional association, which never extended to a personal friendship, was
climaxed in January 1956 when KILYI left Fast Germany upon the down-grading of
his directorate to a department. The news of this reorganization was given
DIBROVA by MALYI on 10 Dec 55. DIBROVA jokingly offered MPJ2LI his job, but
MALYI declined with the explanation that he did not have the suitable "exterior"
which he obviously felt?DIBIt)VA possessed, In dealing with the British and
French, explained MAUI, one did not want to "look up to them" -- the job
required "presence."
DIBROVA [laughing]: "I see -- a fool perhaps, but a tall one."
MALYI: "You know yourself that it's the same in MOSCOW. A man
may be an arch-genius but if he hasn't a suitable figure,
he'll never be the commandant of MOSCOW."
Congratulating Gen CHI;RTOV on his youthful appearance, DIBROVA once insisted that
"looks are everything, they. are the deciding factor," not age, but on another
occasion DIBROVA maintained to the diminutive Gen MALYI that the "bead is the
most important, the deciding factor." Despite their amicable relations, DIBROVA
sharply criticized the Frontier Control Directorate on 20 Dec 55 for making
several errors in a list of border control points, "not for the first time
and-, not only on one occasion," according to the Garrison Commandant. He also
attacked MALYI for taking a hand in the assignment of an officer at one of the
Ring-round-BEI Th control points-
* ai Gen P. PITO V?~? Concerned that East Germans might be killed
by PITOVRANOV-a hunting for boar at night with infra-red sights, DIBROVA called
the general "a fool" on 9 Oct 55,
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$ According to another source DIBROVA is approximately 5-8 to 5-10 in
height; he was born about 1900-1904.. The name MLYI, like "DIBROVA"
of Ukrainian origin, literally means small.
PITOVRANOV is identified by other sources as Chief of the KGB Residentura
in East Germany and First Counsellor at the Soviet Embassy, TM .Irr.
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 Lt Gen P.T. LUKASHIN - Chief, Political Directorate, GSFG. LUKASHIN
had urged his. no to allow anyone through a Ring-round-BERLIN control point
without proper 'documentation9.DIBROVA said on 7 Apr 56. The Political Directorate
Chief had even "threatened" to report DIBROVA and have him punished if he
did otherwise.
Maj Gen V.M. DORMW -- Chief, Cadres Directorate, GSFG. Perhaps in
an official capaci y DOMNIKOV contacted Mrs DIDRCVA a few days after her husband
had left to?usu3ergo medical examination in MOSCOW in mid April 1956.
(?Ma, j) Gen I rmajrOV - Chief, Motor Transport Directorate, GSFG.
The Garrison Commandant on 26/27 Mar 56 aede.a personal plea to UDAVTKOV for
ten POBEDA'a in connection with the expected arrival of Col Gen KOROVNIKOV in
BERLTN.
B. Subordinates
While Col p. G. KII was Chief of the Kommandatura Department at
11q, GSFG, he was sharp ed by DIBROVA who said on 19 Dec 55 that the
colonel fell.asleep and smelled of liquor during a Communist Party conference;
even more indignant when'KtY KII denied the charge, DIBRC)VA was substantiated
in his accusation by Gen MALYI. On 20 Dec 55 DIBROVA asked why ,,this simple
matter" of the list of border control points had not been referred to him
instead of "that cobbler, (Col N.K.) POMAZANOVSKII," then on the Frontier
Control Directorate staff. A stroke of bad luck therefore seemed to have
befallen DIBROVA when these two officers were assigned to him, KRYMSKII as a
deputy and POMAZANOVSKII as Chief of Staff, with the down-grading
:directorate in January 1956. But DIBROVA made the best of a bad bargain;
although they were never on friendly terms, DIBROVA treated them with consideration
and was on a first-name basis with both.
Little is known of DIBROVA's relationships with u 1o ?A.~KOTsSYUBoAA,
whom he described on 15/17 Apr 56 as "my y P h
witky Col A.G. BODBI, another deputy who was transferred to the Belorussian
Military 1xstrict in mid-January, presumably making room for Col KRYMSKII.
When DIBROVA was ill in late January and early February 1956, some of his
duties, including the signing of pisses, were assumed by KOTSYUBA.
V. Family and Residences
DIBROVA maintained a residence in BERLIN/Barlshorst and another
at 109 Leningradskoe Chaussee, MOSCOW (Telephone No. D-7 4794). His wife lived
with him in Karlshorst, rather than in MOSCOW, and he took her to the Soviet
officers' spa in KAFLOVY VARY (KA.RLSBAD), Czechoslovakia, for the month of
August 1955 because of her in health. The couple have at least two children.
One son was attending the"Suvorov (Military) Academiy'in'KIEV in February 1955;
another, V.Jiltljr DIBROVA,'was assigned to'an Intelligence Directorate detachment
at NTW until April. 1956, when -his father arranged his transfer to another
unit by unorthodox means. ?
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 VI Personality, Character, Habits
DIBROVA speaks with a MOS00W accent despite the fact that he once
described himself as a Ukrainian, and sometimes he lapsed into Ukrainian when
talking with his very close personal friend, Lt Col P.V. KHLYUSg0, of the GSFG
Finance Department. (Another personal friend with whom DIBROVA often spoke was
Col BEISHOV, of the Foreign Trade Organization office at Hq, GSFG.1 He was
less addicted to swearing than most other high-ranking officers. Except when
provoked, DI13ROVA was uncommonly good-natured with colleagues and subordinates,
.whom he addressed in such terms as "my very good friend." The Garrison
Commandant was extremely kind and considerate with a major, temporarily serving
as commander of a battalion, in answering questions on comparatively minor
points in connection with the new duties.
Source has indicated that DIBROVA 'was cooperative, easily approached,
educated, cultured, positive in manner, vigorous, quick to act, and usually. calm
and has a good sense of humor. These traits made him liked by his associate
and created a favorable impression on source.
Nevertheless, he was a severe disciplinarian and as harsh as any
contemporary in dealing with shortcomings,. "There must be no appeasing" no
"coddling of troops," DIBROVA once said. Unhappy when all of his female . '
interpreters were taken away, he described the remaining males as "bumpkins"
on 15 Apr 56. He was quick to seize upon cases of indiscipline and mistakes
of officers and other ranks, and when DIBROVA sentenced a soldier to 20 days'
imprisonment for incorrectly permitting a car to go through a control point,
a subordinate officer remarked the, sentence was "the minimum he gives." -
An impatient DIBROVA dressed down an officer for a slow and inaccurate report
of a border incident on 22/23 Mar 56; on if Apr 56 he spent much time trying to
locate a soldier who had disappeared; he demanded-on 6 Apr 56 a report on
two drunken soldiers. As in the case of an officer who suggested an intricate
system for signalling East German border guards, DIBROVA was abrupt with
subordinates who-made proposals he considered impractical.
DIBROVA's own attitude toward higher authority. was not necessarily
consistent with his strict adherence to regulations and his attitude toward
subordinates who disobeyed. Notified on 9 Mar 56 of a reduction in GSFG
working hours, DIBROVA was skeptical, recalling that a previous order which
terminated the working day at 1800 hours had been short-lived; he added:
"You people there [at Al, GSFGJ begin to respect laws -- .for how long?"
Unless Marshal BAGRAMYAH were in the party, DIBROVA was disinclined to meet
a group of MOSCOW officers holding ranks higher than major general..
As a Communist, DIBROVA was incensed when Col KRYMSR'II fell asleep
during a Party conference in Decrmber 1955, and he took part- in political
meetings of the Garrison. It was said on 6/7 Apr 56 that at one of the
Garrison battalions DIBROVA was to give a lecture similar to one previously,
presented by a Garrison political officer.
Outside of his Garrison/Kommandantura and Comnun-,st Party work,
DIBROVA's main interest was in hunting -- hence perhaps the outburst against
ITOVRANO_ V. He and the commander of a Garrison battalion an 3 Mar 56 planned
to leave on a hunting expedition in the Lake Seddin area before 8 a.m. the
following day in order to forestall the commandant of the POTSDAM Komnandatura.
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 DIBROVA sent one of GRECHKO's aides some hare he had shot, He frequently" invited
friends to wild-boar hunts., and he enjoyed exchanging hunting yarns With
001 KHGYUBKO.
Finally ,-DIBROVA appeared to pay particular attention to-outward
appearances, On the occasion of Maj Gen ROME's wife going through a Ring-round
BEMIN check point, he insisted that she should be treated in a "cultured" manner.
On another occasion DIBROVA offered the Deputy Chief of the GSFG Barracks
Services Directorate two seats in the diplomatic box at a concert that night in
the Metropol Theatre in BERLIN commemorating the tenth anniversary of the
founding of the German Youth Organisation (FDJ), Col POMAZONOVSKII would also
be there with his wife. The Barracks Services officer was not to go alone, said
DIBROVA, but should bring his wife or "somebody else's Wife" - someone
"presentable like yourself." Accepting the offersthe Barracks Services officer
said he would bring alon+g?a colonel or more likely -some woman whom he would
tell to dress properly..
Attached to this report as Appendices A and B, respectively, are a
translation of a conversation involving DIBROVA and a list of personalities
appearing in this report. Appendix C is a digest of biographic information on
DIBROVA, obtained from other sources.
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 Appendix A to MFU No. 691f
DIBROVA-S{RYABIN-KOSTYI~V Conversation I
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In mid-January 1956 a U.S. Army sergeant driving from BERLIN to
FRAdMET/Oder passed through the Soviet control point on the Ring-
round-BERLIN en route to MARIIIVBORN, but returned to the control point over three
hours later. In the interim -he had mistaken a route sign and had nearly
exhausted his fuel supply. DIBROVA's 15/17 Jan 56 conversation with
Lt Col B.S. KOSTYIEV, Chief of Frontier Control for the BERLIN Garrison,
and with Sr Lt SKRYABIN, who pommanded the control point, follows:
D:
Where is this American who was detained?
?
S.
He is here, Comrade General, in NOWAWES..
.
D:
S
Is he released yet?
Not yet
We
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D:
No release! Drag him over here. Tell the lieutenant colonel and
S:
bring him over here. ?
Yes, sir.
D:
And these guys who came to meet him -- let the devil's mother take
K:
D:
K:
D:
them! Get KOSTYLEV to the telephone. [to himself]
They certainly thought it up, all right.
I am listening, Comrade General.
Who came for this American?
Liaison officer KARLINSKII.
[by this time extremely angry] Why did you start ne
What an outrage:
gotiations
?
with him?
K: We did not talk to him. He was here prior to our arrival [from the
Soviet Garrison]. He was already talking to the detained sergeant.
.D: You should not be doing that. Send them away. - Grab him and bring
him over here and let him proceed on his way. How can you do a
thing like that?
D: Yes, with the car, with everything. 'What an affair; Honestly, how
can they do it like that: [slams the receiver]
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 DIBROVA, Vladimir
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KOROVNIKOV, I.T.V
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KOTSXQBAI.A.
KRY OU1, P. G. V
PITOVRANOV EP.
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Col
Col
Ma j Gen
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Maj Gen
Marshal
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Lt Gen
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A EO AZANOVSKII, H.K. - -Co1
SHAMOV, Amour. ~,..
Maj Gen
Maj Gen
Appendix B to MFU No. 694
Remarks -
Deputy Minister of Defence.
Foreign Trade Organisation, HQ, GSFG; a
personal friend of DIBROVA.
Former deputy to DIBROVA; now serving in
Belorussian Military District.
Chief, Medical Directorate, GSFG.
Wife.of Mai Gen DIBROVA.
Former Con= dant of the Soviet'Garrison,
BERLIN, and former Chief, Central Military
Konmandatura, Soviet Sector of BERLIN.
Reassigned in April 1956 from a-GSFG
Intelligence Directorate detachment in ERFU1?1;
son of Maj Gen DIBROVA.
In February 1956 a student at the Suvorov
Academy, KIEV; a son of Maj Gen DIBROVA.
Chief, Cadres Directorate, GSFG.
CUD, GSFG.
Wife of Marshal GRECHKO.
Finance Department, GSFG;
of DIBROVA,
Chief, Motor Transport Directorate,
Ministry of Defence.
Chief, frontier control, Soviet Garrison,
BERLIN.
A'deputy to DIBROVA, who described him as
"my deputy for diplomatic affairs".
Former Chief, Kommnandatura Department, HQ,
GSFG; later a deputy. to DIBROVA.
Chief, Political Directorate, GSFG.
Former Chief, Frontier Control Directorate,
GSFG; transferred to the USSR in January 1956
Minister of Agriculture.
[collateral: Chief, KGB Residentura in East
Germany, and First.Ooiinsei,lor, Soviet Embassy,
BERLIN]
Directorate staff; -later Chief of Staff
under DIBROVA.
[collateral: GOC,'British Garrison, BERLIN]
[collateral: Succeeded Maj Gen DIBROVA in
June 1956]
Col Gen Former Chief of Stiff, GSFG.
(?Maj) Gen -Chief, Motor Transport Directorate, GSEG:
Army Gen Deputy CinC, Soviet Ground Forces.
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 Appendix C to MPU No t
Biographic Information on Mal Gen DIBROVA* f 0.
- An agricultural labourer, according to a 1956 statement
attributed to 'him.
- Appointed. major general of intendance; probably transferred
from intedance to infantry.
1953 - Awarded Order of Red Banner for successful execution of battle
.tasks and outstanding results ih battle, and for political
training and education of troops; moved with staff from POTSSDAM
to Soviet Control Commission area in BJRLIN/Karlstiorat.
1955 - In Marshal GRECHKO's entourage during British CinC's visit to
ZOSSEN/WUENSDORP.
June 1956 - Succeeded by Maj Gen SHAMOV.
Personal Details: Reported by one defector as being not very severe, by
another as being demanding, feared by all officers, and
very strict. Member of the Communist Party. Meditun
build; 5'8" to 540" in height; about 155 pounds;
dark blond hair. Wife in BERLIN.
* This. information has been obtained from other sources.
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