The Soviet Intelligence and Counterintelligence Services in Germany and Austria.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65-00756R000600130002-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 1999/09/20 : CIA-RDP65-000756R000600130002-0
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Subject: The Soviet Intelligence and Counterintelligence Services
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C. Personnel, Selection and Training; ~c\ Ge4L.Mq c-
According to the latest information, all MGB officers
in Germany must be graduates of one of the special MGB Schools
located in key cities of the U.S.S.R. All MGB interpreters in
Germany must be commissioned. officers who have completed a
foreign language course, probably at the Foreign Language Institute
of the Soviet Army in Moscow. Most civilian interpreters who
were hired before this requirement went into force have been
repatriated to the U.S.S.R., while those who remained have had
to qualify for commissioned status by taking correspondence
courses offered by the Foreign Language Institute. Clerks who
have arrived in Germany recently are graduates of an tVMGB clerical
school in Moscow.
Training of locally employed Austrian agents appears
to be essentially similar to the training given by the UGB in Germany.
Thus far no advanced intelligence or counterintelligence training
has been identified in Austria. However, the existence of several
low-level agent schools offerin,,courses of short duration has been
established. There is also evidence that several UGB schools are
using the MVD establishment as a cover for their activities.
It is believed that in addition to the graduates of
Soviet-operated agent schools, the UGB employes a fair number of
graduates of agent schools organized by the Austrian Communist
Party under Soviet sponsorship.
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Most agents and informants employed by the UGB do not receive
any formal training. These individuals are, however, briefed by
the UGB officer effecting the recruitment as to what type of
information is required in general, or in connection with a specific
mission to which the agent is assigned.
According to unconfirmed reports the UGB may conduct three
agent schools in the Soviet Zone of Germany. These schools are
supposedly located in Dresden, Schaman, and Poggendorf.
The course at the Poggendorf School reportedly consists of:
(1) Organization of the U.S. and British Occupation Armies
(2) Installations of the U.S. and British Civil Admini-
stration in Germany.
(3) Organization of the U.S. and British Military Police.
(4) The Communist Party Program.
(5) Map reading.
(6) Terrain reconnaissance
(7) Preparation of reports
(8) Security
(9) Interrogation procedure
(10) Coding and decoding
It is also considered probable that Communist Party schools in
the Soviet Zone of Germany provide a considerable amount of agent
training. Graduates of these schools may therefore be considered
to have a basic knowledge of espionage and counterintelligence techniques.
While elementary training is almost certainly offered, there has
been no evidence of any advanced'intelligence schools in the Soviet
Zone of Germ y It is therefore assumed that higher-level intelligence
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several advanced MGB schools have been identified.