ADVANCED TRAINING OF POLISH MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200400009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Pgiand/USSR
Advanced Thsining of Polish Merchant
Marine Officers in the t}SSR
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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.B. 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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11 January 1954
Graduates of the merchant marine officers school in Gdynia, Poland, who are
judged by the politruks to be 100% politically reliable, are.being chosen for
advanced studies in the Soviet naval academies at Leningrad and Odessa. After
completing a four-year course of study in the 5oviet Union, the students are
expected to return to Poland to assume high positions in the Polish maritime
service and in the management of Polish harbors. Four to six students are
sent yearly to the Soviet Union. The first group was sent in 1950 and should
return to Poland in 1954.
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