SOVIET TROOPS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE BALTIC MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700360008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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OOUINT!Z 'USSR (Baltic;
SUBJECT 'Soviet Trw- -"d-'AUi~ry
In the Balti-:. HD
a:.+i.;,dVUWV8io Aar mss wWs also picked
up at Marieaapmiso The eqdpamt included ems.
rime and eevegal trucks md matara"leao
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CONFIDENTIAL
Untina Prior to May
(N56-t79 I951~
E27-21)
Riga Prior to
(N56-57 20 March
E24w07S 19h9'
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Billets of an unidentified
number of three-story
buildings enclosed by a
high brick walla
Billets of about 10
wooden cantonment
buildings enclosed
by a wooden fence?
Billets, the former
;main ?R camp
Barracks installation,
AAA emplacements,
Occupied by a motorized artillery unit in early 19$9
Riding past the installation, source observed about 10
guns and an unidentified rrumtber of trucks in the billet-
in- area, A belloon unity almost exclusively of uniformed
women was observed in the area of a former cemetery, north-
east of tie billets:
Trucks and individual horse-drawn vehicles, No troops were
observed in the barracks installation;
Riding past the emplacement, source saw four heavy AA guns
in improved field emplacements,
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Southwestern exit of
the town,,
Northwestern exit
of the town.
Occupied by soldiers wearing red epaulets
va.stern sector of the city,
about 1;000 meters east
of the central freight
yard.
Eastern sector of the
city, about 600 hundred
meters south-southwest
of tree Zemitani railroad
stations.
Eastern perimeter of the
city,, east of the suburb
of Ciekurkalns and north
of the railroad line to
Valka(N57?17,, F26.O2);
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Occupied by a motorized unit with troops wearing red epaulets.
An unidentified number of houses occupied by officerso dependents
was opposite the installation,
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Hilletsg in. former Northeast of the City, Scurce, from the " a d d to "da1ka(N3d`-4'7,,_:6-o2)y observed
Jermiar forest bum?:er?s;, in the southern se4:t.on practicing soi . rs and a uteri rncnth r of tanks
of the woods north of which were known to be statrmed in, forest bunkers
Ba1o i(Nc6Mt,'9}i?2$4>16) if1 the 3outhe5;1 Section. of 25X1
Sr1r1*t officers.
'!1' the ?ar&ges of the LUn stry for f.^,.ternal Agfdi "
.
tale M[rD, anri Captain TimcslI.-*nko(d'nu), officer tT ch4 e
u4 one ..51?'1I3 try Lor IntcrnaI ni.ffalrrj iVD ma"
n+~, earrv (frtia) officer