MILITARY - PARAMILITARY ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220511-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 511
• Publication Date: April 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Military - Paramilitary activities
HOW
PUDLISHED Dail.V nevcpapers %
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 17 Feb-20 mar 1949
LANGUAGE
SOURCE, Soviet newspapers as indicated.
REPORT
CD NO,
DATE OF
DATE DIST. ?'` Apr 1949
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
PR]MORSEIT =ME GROUPS INCRRASL TRAIBIIIG -- Krasnoye Znamya, No 39, 17 Feb 49
The Spasskiy Rayon (Primorskiy E1'ay) volunteer defense societies are increas-
ing their activities in honor of Army *sy, The local DOSARM organization is
completing training courses for radio operators, is equipping military study
circles, and forming teams for rifle competitions. The parachute group in the
local DOdAV has complete6 its theoretical training. Courses for aircraft
mechanics and meteorological observers are being organised.
The Chln.1.ovskiy Rayon -)Komsomol Committee and 'the rayon bureau of POSARM
is preparing to honor the day with mass skiing oomtstitioas.
DOSABM SKMS C3WMLM ABM7 DAY -- Patriot Rodiay, No 16, 23 Feb 49
MR honor of the 31st anniversary of the Soviet Army, DOSABM members of
the Vitebsk Medical Institute completed a 4-day propaganda ski march from
Vitebsk to Polotsk, a distance of 120 kilometers. The party included agitators
and political speakers, as well ens such outstanding riflemen as Voronenko,
a thdrd-year student and record-holder of Belorussian SSE; Tyu!ik, a second-
,fear student end champion of Vitebsk Oblast) Slavovioh, wosms- ski-champion
of Belorussian SSR, and others.
In villages along the way, participants in the ski march gave reports
on the progress of the Soviet Army and on the aims and objectives of DOSABM,
DOSAV, and DOBFLOT.
Ml:, ' IFS FAFACE WE RECORD -- Sovetskaya L.tva, w o 66, 20 I1er 49
On 1.3 November 1948, Captain A. V. Bystrov, Nester of Paraohute Spar.,
met a new all-Union record in parachute jumping. Ea jumped from an airplane
flying at the rate of 764 kilometers 1.er hour at an altitude of 1,920 meters.
The new record was confirmed by the Aviation Sport Commission of the Central
Aviation Club imeni V. P. Chkalov.
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DOSAV KOMSOMOIS STUDY AMONiU":ICS -- Sovetskaya Latviya, No 39, 17 Feb 49
The majority of atuients at the Riga DOSAV Air Club are TComeomole who
Cr? studying aeronautics and practicing parachute jumping, Groups to prepare
aviation mechanics have been organized this year for the first time.
NAVAL SCHOOLS HELP LENINGRAD DOSFLOT -- Krasnyy Plot, No 61, 15 Mar 49
Naval schools in Leningrad have been giving active support to DOSFLOT
organizations, and have assigned students and officers to serve as lecturers
and speakers. Komsomol Students Petrov, Tyurin, Yagodka, and Semin, for
example, deliver regular reports before naval groups in Vasileostrovekiy
Rayon. Students of the Naval Engineering School imeni Dzerzhlnekiy have
organized a navy club in Secondary School No 236.
RIGA NAVAL SCHOOL ANNOUNCES COURSE,-- Sovetskaya Latviya, No 63, 17 Mar 49
The Nakhimov Naval School in Riga announces a 6-year course which prepares
candidates for higher naval command schools: The school will take only orphans
who have lost one or both parents in the vex. Candidates mast furnish the
following documents: an application filled out by the applicant; a statement
by parent or guardian stating which ;ontagious children's diseases the applicant
has had; an autobiography written by the applicant; a birth certifloate.or
notarized copy; a reference and report on past performance from the applicant's
school; a certificate of fitness for naval service; a certificate of vaccinations;
two photographs 3x4 centimeters; information regarding the death of the applicant's
parent(s) and on the service and occupation of the surviving parent; certificate
showing completion of required schooling. Locuesents must be received by the
head rd' the school, Post Office Box 92, Riga, before 1. May.
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