COASTAL FORTIFICATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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ZENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Coastal Fortifications
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This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
t1otxal 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 to prohibited.
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Fortifications west of Kolobrze (Kolber0 . Fortifications have been under con
struction for the last two years in the large forest area west of Kolobrzeg. The
entire area is enclosed by wire net and barbed wire and guarded by sentries who
check all personal documents of people who enter it; special permission is required
to gain entry into the area. The work on the fortifications, which consist of
well camouflaged storehouses located above and below ground and one and two story
brick and wood buildings, is performed by so-called second class soldiers, sons of
former Volksdeu.tsche and other "enemies of the people's democracy,* and work bat-
talions of slave laborers who are guarded night and day by KBW (Internal Security
Corps) sentries. Some soldiers attached to the Kolobrzeg garrison are billeted in
these buildings. The building plans for the fortifications have been altered several
times so that the work battalions have had to tear down newly constructed buildings
and build them anew. Coastal artillery and antiaircraft artillery guns are located
in the area, and about ten tanks, which informant believes belong to the Kolobrzeg
garrison. There are several first-class roads which run into this forest area which
can be utilized by heavy tanks, artillery, and for the transport of heavy stocks.
The entire western periphery of this area has storehouses located underground and
above ground which are filled with .powder and other explosives. A guard unity con-
sisting of between 25 and 30 soldiers, is billeted in this area to guard these stores.
Many prisoners and youths from SP (Service to Poland) brigades are also engaged in
clearing out the ruins and rubble in Kolobrzeg. Much of the material which is sal-
vaged from the ruins is transported to the forest area.
2. Fortifications between Kolobrze and Boacice (Bodenhaaen-055/M251. The construction
of new coastal artillery and antiaircraft emplanements and underground storehouses
was begun in the spring of 1953 along the coastal area which begins at a point about
two kilometers east of Kolobrzeg and extends to a point about 200 to 300 meters west
of the village of Bogcice. However, before the work on these fortifications was
begun, the entire area was enclosed by a wire net about 2.5 meters high which has a
half meter strip of barbed wire running along the top. Warning signs bearing such
inscriptions as "military area", "entrance forbidden", and "trespassers shot without
warning" were also erected at various places in. the area. The building material for
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.. No forts
Fortification between Doscice airfield and Ustronie sgie ~R~VAr cenhageo)- is :Mast
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the fortifications carried along the Solobrzeg-KOszalin (Koeslin) railroad line.
coastal artillery guns, with barrels of about
five meters in length., being waded from railroad care in Kolobrzeg and later
drawn by tractors tbward the afore mentioned area. Most of 'the work on these
fortifications is being done by infantry and engineering troops.
rortifinativns in BZc'3.oe. All of the civilian population of Bogeice has been
personnel
evacuated, and in . the winter of 1952, most of the families of the military p
were sent back to the USSR. Approximately-half of the buildings in Pog~cUe were
destroyed by the Soviets and the remaining buildings were adapted as.barracks for
the soldiers and' as storehouses. Several new underground storehouses -have also been
constructed. Since the spring of 1953, between 250 and 300 officers stave been
billeted in the houses constituting officerst rpw located along the road to Koszalin,
fications are locatea peiweea t,ur Yllia.5-
east of the Bogcice airfield, and the town of Ustronie Morskie. This coastal area
a,' P (Military Border Guard) unit of about 28 men which is commanded
b a is guarded-by
by a lieute snt. The WOP unit mans three wooden watchtowers between Bogeice airfield
and Ustronie Morekie which are all connected by a wire that'runs-about 70 centimeters
above the-ground., Alarm signals are attached to the wire so that if any person
touches it, the sentries will be alerted. This unit is also charged with patrolling
the coast line.
Fortification bet n,U tro a Mor e 1 Between the mouth of the small
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Una River, which is located about two kilometers best of 0aaki, and the village of
Ga.ski itself, there are some former German barracks in which naval seamen, infantry
troops, and engineers are billeted. No fortifications are located along this part
of the coast, although the military units that are stationed there are eng.ged
some type of construction. In August 1953, a Soviet military truck carrying powder
and'other explosives from Kolobrzeg to Gaski exploded after it had passed through the
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town of Ustronie Morakie, killing the Polish escort of ten soldiers and drivero
mention wes.;made in the newspapers about this explosion and the people were forbidden
to discuss the.acdident. However, the rumors were that the explosion resulted from
sabotage. -No fortifications or military settlements are located in Serbinovo (Soren-
bohm), Chlopy (Bauerhufen) or Mielno (Klein and Grossmoellen). The coast between
these towns is, however, guarded by a MOP unit which has its headquarters in Sarbinowo.
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Fortifications in the Jaamo ~3samunder See)jai 1'~
This entiire la area and the area iamnediately to the south of the lakes has been made
out-of-bounds to all civilian and unatsthotized'personnel. A seaplane base is located
on the southern part of the Lake Jamno, near the village of Jemno, and a very large
airfield is Lander construction on the periphery of this lake, near the afore mentioned
seaplane base. Lngineering troops and other soldiers and workers and peasants, with
their horse=drawn carts, are employed in the construction of the field. The engi-
neering troops and soldiers are billeted in the militarized village of Jamno.
A "marine infantry" (piechota morska) unit, coastal artillery unit, antiaircraft
unit equipped with portable guns, and engineering troops are stationed in Uniescie
(Nest-055/M46). About 15 fishermen and their families still reside in Uniescie, but
informant believes that they will be evacuated-to another area in the near future.
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