POLISH-SOVIET BOUNDARY CHANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000500160013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/10/05: CIA-RDP08C01297R000500160013-8
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VIA Chief, p/G/A
Chief Territore 1 Studies Section
Polish-Soviet Boundary Change
2/ 1sbriary 1952
? Maps showing the present deda to Poll 'Soviet boundary
should incOrporate changes in the 19145 boundar7 as the result
of an exchange of territories* The exchanged areas are along
the southern portion ,of the boundary, located roughly near
(1) 24?101E and $0?301N (to the ussn) and (2) 22?401E and
49020'N (to Poland).
Background Information* In l'ebruary 1951 Poland and the
1.33SR signed an agreement providing for the change of territories
of equal Size (480 square kilometers), bringing about two
changes on their comron boundary which was established in 1945.
Instruments of ratification were egchanged and the agreement
went into effect in June 1951.
Plotting of the Changes on Naps4 The demarcation maps
showing the boundary changes are not available* (Nor have
any other maps been seen which show the chances.) The new
sector's can be plotted schematically, however' from the
treaty text as it appeared in the Journal of the Sepreme
Soviets No. 23, 14 July, 1951. The schematic presentation
of the new sectors is to appear on map CIA 12231, compiled
at the scale of 1:500-i000. It is felt that this scale is
the lareest at which the 1951 sectors can be plotted without
a serious margin of error. However' the lines should still
be gut:lifted ("approximate alignment" or "schematic alienment")
at this scale. On smaller scale maps, eseecially smaller than
11,000,000 this qualification may not be necessary at all times*
State Polis ory._Ie_._0._miast The new sectors
are considered just as the renaindar of the Polish-oviet
boundary, in the category of those not necessarily recognized
by the U. S. Government."
Notet Thin change has been incorporated on some CIA maps
already. Series maps, some of which are published and which
?show the old beundarY, could follow through with that portrayal
if the series will be completed in the foreseeable future.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2612/10/05 : CIA-RDP08C01297R000500160013-8