MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LENINGRAD AREA: MILITARY GEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSIONS/TELEPHONE SECURITY REGULATIONS / 'PER-OK' PERISCOPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500480093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM No
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DEC 1981
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Military Developments in the Leningrad Area: Military
Geographical Commissicns / ':'cieph:;::c Lecurity Regula-
tions / 'Per-Ok' Perlsc re
PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
VM N CONTAINS INIOAMATION ATILCTINO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
DI THE U.ITLD STATES. .I T.IN THLMEANIMD OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 713
AND 714. 01 THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION ON RLVE.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT It AN UNAUTNORILLD PERSON II
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE DISTR. 3 M 4y .954
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SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
Military Geographical Commission
1. "At Leningrad there is a Leningrad Cozmliccion of Military Geography. Ito
chairman is Rear-Adrpiral E. E. Shwede. The lot Secretary is Captain of the
lot rank A. V. Osi ov. This Commission has a special mission: the investi-
gation and study of military-geographical factors of the countries situated
around the Baltic and Arctic Scas. The Clo;nisi: lion collects every kind of data
on the economic and moral potential of such countries, and on their physical
and geographical nature. Using r.uchh data, it compiles 'military-geographical
communiques' svo&i) which nre distributed to all military training establish-
ments and schools and to all he idquayrt+rr?1; of the Soviet Armed Forces.
2. "In the European part of' the UGSP. there is al.Go a Moscow Commission of Military
Geography and Kiev Commission of Military Geography.
3. "All three Commiesione are closely ..onnectc,d with the VOID (Vseso znoe
Gheograficheekoe Obshchestvo - All. Union. "eographical Society in Moscow.
Military Telephone Security Regulations
4. "According to an instruction issued to the ;;?;.pt Armed Forces in 1953, the
rules for telephone conversation over the ;..:~ r'orces networks are as follows:
(a) Telephone conversations easily lend L?hemsei.ves to listening by a
third party. Therefore discipline and secrecy in the talks are
essential when using the telephone.
(b) It is forbidden to call stations or )eroons openly. All calls
must be made by 'cell signs' agreed upon in advance,
(C)
When one station calls another connected with it by direct line,
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the call sign of the station ca~led must be mentioned immediately
after the cal 1_ sigu