MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003900570006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na.
ttonsl Defense of the United States, within the menn-
Ing of Title 18. Sections 703 and 791, 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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highway through Warsaw, the leveling work is to begin near Frankfurt an der
Oder. From Poznan. 'a branch will be built to the Szczecin--Gdansk-Kaliningrad
highway. Another branch will go via Bytom Odrzanski (approximately 30 km.
southeast of Zielona Cora) and work at Bytom Odrzanski will begin early in
1954. Bridge materials will be delivered by the iron factory in Furstenberg
and by the.Skoda factory. The highways are to consist of two lanes of
10 meters each, separated by a broad middle strip which will be usable by
tanks.
from Frankfurt an der Oder) in connection with certain canal installations.
The fortified area is 16 km, wide and 2 km. deep. The work force amounts
to about 2,500 men, probably working in three shifts.
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locality of Staschow (said to be located on Polish territory 12 kilometers
2. Instruction.: in the Russian language in the army is considered to have advanced
to such a point that the majority of the recruits both understand and speak
Russian passably well at the end of their period of service.
3. The number of recruits in the labor battalions was estimated in November 1953
to amount to 10 to 15 per cent of all of the recruits in Poland.
4. In Kolobrzeg (Kolberg) there is an armored regiment in which all officers of
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5. fortifications are now being erected in the
The Army Command has begun to retain certain reserve officers in service after
completion of stipulated exercises. These officers are forced in this connec-
tion to leave their civilian positions?
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COUNTRY Poland
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REPORT
Miscellaneous Military Information DATE DISTR. 3 May 1954
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the Polish government has decided that the optical
industry is to be mod ernized and centralized. This will,, among others,r
take place with the help of a considerable collection of machines from
the Zeiss factory at Jena, which is included in the war reparation
deliveries. The now existing small optical workshops which are spread
all over the country are to be closed dawn and be included in the central
industrial installations which will be set up at Warsaw and in Upper Silesia.
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