POSTAL REGULATIONS AND CENSORSHIP/POSTAL RATES FOR DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MAIL, MONEY ORDERS, TELEGRAMS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500470106-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: April 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Postal Regu'at.on3 .:c';-d a~wah:~'fF'~astai Fates for
Domestic and Fu_r',-.uz1. !?1: i..!; Money Teleg'r'ams.
GO CUNCn, C6n1a,N' Ih/C wYJ,I,,, a .C(,,JNG ,,., .-
DATE D1=TR. 7 A.pr 1954
No. 0' I u;E5 S
NO. 01= i- I_S.
SUP?. TO
REPORT NO.
"The following :.for.'.,iol on the Popish teas :sates to Foh 540
Postal Regulations and Censorship
2. "No special forms have to be filled in when sending letters in Poland.
When sanding parcel, one ha,:-, to fill in a covering address card. Ordinary
letters to addx'L-sses xithin the country are thrown into srdinaxy mailboxes.
There are special yellow mailboxes for air mail.
"Lstte?rs t: 'i :L :?reig 1 ad.dre ce.nnot be th ,o,?rn. into, a mailbox; they must be
tak z-. to the F.r.:=+ ;.f `:)in _.., ope;:. e_:.v_:: r.)lF 71F. propex l ~stal cffic.La1
checks no the .:r CJri';exi.t . ?. ilhether tho .i.etf;e:." cowl- anything more than.
g,, a Map
a l.eti.eM1. e, g. n)o:ev, "h,..uld be rLete _n;thing 5c,sp.Lcious, C.
~;:: it:i', -?..'T'ii. :',.. , _._i.ti !'..')t of a, he asks the sender for
h s .-d to the 2ensO'S'. Should the
envelop;: ....:~,_. 'r-.'pr St. o_'~t;.i.a.~y Letter, he closes the envelope and doe=
not ask
4. ' cts. j.:,_ ! y r.?._ 1;., addaes..ee within Poland about 10 days on
an from Warsaw tc; I'! g~ tr_.:.es for,. or five days. A
iOCT;J. ... .. L^_.Lt"..._ (to a recipient the :;Lxae 1_,oFr':.) takoc six -? twelve e
h301 , )1;?. '.A.J).L t.. LE" t@.. to snot})' T t.,;?N':.l .l L}/t_' a dey o:: two earlier than
ter mac. ack1 r g. an > n r mail,
Al: e.
S 'j ~. ... ,
.' J. i :ar,,:: i. e: t;-: ?' ~.~ 1 i ea t: r a rr:'.a. ras_ ~- , _._ .^/ , .i: .~Jve days to arr.:.ve,
ALt.hc-,.%r.:h, cowm-unirration .L.?, vi.ry S.L7t, lca.;t:c:c??a sad parcels a.>~'e aot JoC't
jn t;)1?:; a..L Y t 01 f,,.1'_., ;,h..:,old. there are special forms on which
6. ,;,ette:r.'s 1' -om resnn the Foli.,i.l recipient; ~.nven or eight days
after the letter ha errLSXed et the Centr.ej. Vost Office in Warsaw. As far
as may be judg;ect rn.l.l letters from abroad and going abroad are cleared through
post office. Warsaw does not ceo,-o?r all this correspondence in detail:
this
there J. only w. general check??upi Isamp.f :rests' ore made of a certain ntmtber.
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NufflAugam=
SDI STn19UTi~)N rd LATE L; iI I,.PMI
This report, is for the. use within the USA of the intelligence components of, the Departments ot?
Avencies Indicated above. It i> not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
- n+-rr.,r of t)ee nfl^e of Collectic i and Dissemination, CIA.
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The censor gets only those letters which appear suspicious or have been
mailed by or to persons on a special list. Every post office in Poland
has a list of suspicious persons in its area and is responsible for check-
ing on their correspondence.
7. "Letters from the U? E;R or Satellite countries are subject to the same
treatment as letters from other foreign countries.
8. "All persons corresponding with foreign countries are registc red at the
post office of their place of residence. The letters they get or send
are entered in a special file index which notes the day of mailing or
reception and the country of desti.na-cion or ori. in. Not all these
letter:s are regularly censored, despite resist. :ion. But if somebody
in a given postal district gets a letter from .ax?oad for the fl_st time,
this letter is Invariably sent to le censored,
9. "A refugee ',rho worked at the Warsair post office in 1952 says th c egr:,m
L,etter minimum 25 words '(ELT)
.: V ,v ?' fc L ot,ring ,word
0.J.5 zl.. but. miniumun is. 0.75 z1...
r.eight !1: xilnum
lr to 3 '?:C~
5 i?.g
10 kg
15 kg
20 kg
cpr?ss - double postage.
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