PARAMILITARY GROUPS INCREASE ACTIVITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 820
• Publication Date: July 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIaP?,?`~~RET~A~
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORI
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Military - paramilitary
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Warsaw; Lodz
DATE
PUBLISHED 1, 30 Mar 1950
- 1-WO40GE Polish
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT ^0
U. S. C.. SI AND 1E, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OE INS REVELATION
OS ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO'
NIEITED ST LAW. REPRODUCTION OF TNIS FORM IS PROHIPITEO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST.II Jul 1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Newspapers as indicated.
PARAMILITARY GROUPS INCREASE ACTIVITIES
PROMOTE CLOSER TIES WITH ARMED FORCES -- Trybuna Ludu, No 89, 30 Mar 50
The Friends of Service Men Society, the Aviation League, the Maritime
League, and the Polish Western Association held meetings recently to elect
delegates to their general assemblies. Discussions at the meetings centered
around the strengthening of Poland's defensive power through an increase in
economic. potential and in military power. To achieve this end, the entire
Polish population must express its support of the armed forces. Polish-Soviet
brotherhood in arms must be popularized. Widespread technical education must
be promoted as the second line of defense.
The Friends of Service Men Society is active in propagandizing informa-
tion about the armies of the people's democracies. In the near future, the
society will undertake large-scale training of civilians in marksmanship, opera-
tion, and maintenance of motor vehicles, and radio and short-wave technology.
Training of glider and powered aircraft pilots was on the agenda of the
recent meeting of the Aviation League. Practical training for defense on the
seas and inland waterways was discussed at the meetings of the Maritime League
and of the Polish Western Association.
Also discussed were problems of coordinating this program with the activi-
ties of trade unions, Peasants' Self-Help Cooperatives, the Polish Youth Asso-
ciation, the Service for Poland organization, and various sports and athletic
clubs..
TO TRAIN MARKSMEN -- Dziennik Lodzki, No 60, 1 Mar 50
The recently created Regional Marksmanship Association has already organ-
ized 16 clubs, including four in Lowicz, Kutno, Wielun, and Piotrkow. These
clubs comprise marksmanship sections in various athletic associations.
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Individual membership applications are not accepted by the Regional Marks-
manship Association. To become part of the association, each sport club has to
present applications from at least ten members. The association, among other
things, provides arms and licenses.
The association will organize marksmanship training courses with small arms
in April 1950 and pistol training in midseason. The Lodz city administration
has placed the shooting range of the Park Ludowy (People's Park) at the disposal
of the association. Another shooting range will be near the Rdliski Railroad
Terminal.
The present shortage of ammunition will be eliminated when the Chief Com-
mittee for Physical Culture can supply adequate quantities of ammunition to the
regional marksmanship associations. The Lodz Regional Marksmanship Association
will extend financial grants to members for the purchase of arms.
The association will organize interclub marksmanship competitions to select
a representative team to participate in the national marksmanship championships
in Szczecin.
The association will organize training courses for umpires and newspaper-
Colonel Doctor Zajaczkowski is president of the Regional Marksmanship As-
sociation. Major Gosciewicz, who represented Polish Marksmanship at the 1924
Olympic Games in Paris, is a member of the executive board.
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