ORGANIZATION OF QUARTERMASTER SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030409-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 409
• Publication Date: January 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SEC?
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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1. There is in. the USSR cne single quartermaster service, which supplies
all Soviet armed forces, without exceptions. However, this unit exists
only on the top level of organization. Below thin level, the unity is
'hzotev, and '.te variouo services have s^.parate quartermaster corps. The
th r*r.e' of command operates as follows.
2. Ached :?c the Defense Cozmittee of the USSR is the chief of the quarter-
master service. General of the Army Khrulgy. All the mpterial resources
of the country needed for the i rter' ster's supplies are under his juris-
diction. Rhrulev has o. had under him an agency called the air. Adnainis-
tr ti_n of C-,,-,V; vhich is divided into a mmnber of '1-.trations.
Thin administration ircludes: Uprodsnab, (Sub-Administration of Food
Supplies), which deals with the people's commissariats of agriculture,
meat and dairy induct 7, and other cc issariats cone-irnnd with food
ou p1',,tt'The main administration includes also sub??a inicY scions
for clothing, -eranejc- t supplies, kitchens, kitchen iaventory, tarpaulins,
tents, strete:hers, t ld hospitals, and other property. There is a sub-
administration for fuel end lubricants ct+.lledGSM, and sevxral other such
sub-administrations. 'fire are also special supply diva slogs for the
ground forces, the navy, and the air force, which e"e also completely
subordinated to the chief of the mein administration.
3. These separate supply sections handling specific caiegcries of supplies
receive reports on the receipts and expenditures of quartermaster supplies
from the quarterstere at the front, or it r-flitary districts. It is only
in the Supply Adtinistration that the unity of the quartermster service
exists. .Rack of the major services maintains separate quartermater corps;
organized in accordance with their specialties or branch of service. Sep-
arate quartermaster corps exist for the ground forces, the navy, and the
air force. "?*ery one of these forces has its own quartermaster specialists,
and ever 1%.a own star.::-: is for eq?.ippi.ng its personnel, which are quite
diff it from on:: another.
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