1. EXCHANGE OF GUNS ON T-34 TANKS 2. ARMORED OFFICER'S SCHOOL IN JABLONNA

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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? CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections '793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Poland REPORT
SUBJECT 1; Exchange of-Guns on T---34 Tanks DATE DISTR.
179 October 1953
2. Armored Officerls School in Jablonna
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.1. In April, it was determined that several weapons workshops in Poland, including
one_in Czestochowa, are engaged in the alteration of T-34 tanks'into T-34/85 by
the exchange of guns and by other changes in the tanks. These tanks had been
sent to the shops from armored regimentspand after their alteration, they *ate
returned. At the end of April, the same weapon exchange had been made in the
armored regiments at Braniewo (Braunsberg) and Elblag (Elbing). It is expected
that these modifications will have been completed in all Polish armored units by
the beginning of the summer or fall field manueversol
2. At the armored school in Jablonna? near Warsaw, which is training officers and
active non-commissioned officers as armored troops, all of the tanks are of the
Soviet models that are used in Soviet and satellite armies. The school also
has the newest Soviet model tanks, including one 'which is equipped With 120 mm.
armor (sit). Different types of tanks from the western powers armies are also
found at the school, such as Centurion, Cromwell, and Sherman. .The other equip-
ment at the' school is also described as extraordinarily good. The management of
the school is entirely in the hands of the Soviets.
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tank, regiments had the 76 mm0 caliber
equipped with the ..85 mm. caliber ,gun.
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were being
All their 1-34 tanks
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