NON-COMMISSIONED ARMORED OFFICERS TRAINING SCHOOL IN DRAWSKO POMORSKIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002701130002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002701130002-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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.
SECRET/CONTROL-U.S.OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Poland
REPORT NO. 25X1 A
SUBJECT Non-Commissioned Armored Officers DATE DISTR. 17 November 1953
Training School in Drawsko Pomorskie
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1, Nori=commiissioned officers' courses of six months duration are held at the large military
center for armored troops in Drawsko Pomorskie (Dremburg-?054/R37). The center was
established at the end-of 1951. Each person who successfully completes this course'
graduates.as a none-commissioned officer candidate, and remains a candidate for a period
of' two y.eare before he can be promoted to a career NCO. Marv of the career NCO's are
forced to remain in the army after the end of their tour of'military service because
they have been threatened with transfer?to a work battalion,
2. The school has T-34, T-44, T-54, Stalin 2, and Stalin-3 tanks for use in training, as
well as some English and American tanks, the names of which informant could not remember.
The commander of this training school for armored troops is a Soviet brigadier general
who has young Polish officers, politruks, and many Soviet officers serving under him.
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