MOKOTOW PRISON IN WARSAW
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Publication Date:
November 26, 1954
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REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
INFORMATION REPORT tag of the 8spionage laws, Title 18, V.S.C. Secs. 793
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Mokotow Prison in Warsaw
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Mokotow prison is located on the corner of Rakowiecka and Mokotowska Streets
in the Mokotow district in Warsaw. Political prisoners are kept during the inves-
tigation of their cases or after completion of the investigation if the evidence
obtained is not sufficient for a trial. The majority of its inmates are professional
men and army officers, who have been charged with being members of such illegal
organizations as the AK or WIN, and many of them have been in prison for five or six
years without having received a court sentence.
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2. ..Of the 'seven buildings which comprise the prison, only the largest and principal
building and the kitchen-laundry building ahtette World War II. The remaining
five, all of which were built after World War II, are generally five-story buildings
(see attached sketch).
a. One of the new buildings, named Pavilion 10, quarters prisoners who are still in
the early stages of investigation and who have not been in prison for more than
one or two years.
b. Adjacent to Pavilion 10 is the building used exclusive.l< for interrogations. It
is connected with Pavilion 10 and the hospital by subtorra.ioen .?assageo
c. One section of the old building, called Pavilion 8 quarters prisoners who have
been held for five to six years. The offices of tfie prison staff are also located
in the same building.-as Pavilion 8.
3. The prison area is enclosed by a five-meter high brick wall, on top of which is a
three-meter high fence of barbed wire. The only entrance to the prison is from
Rakowiecka Street. Guards from the Internal Security Corps, armed with automatic
rifles, are posted on watchtowers in the four corners of the prison site.
4. It is not known how many prisoners are held or can be held at the prison, but in
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December 1952 there were eight imaates in a 2-by.4-meter cell, Two prisoners have
to share one straw mattress. The discipline is very strict, and prisoners are cm-
pletely isolated from the outside world. Inmates of each cell are allowed a daily
walk of 15 minutes in the inner courtyard of the prison.
5. Food rations are inadequate. Each prisoner receives one-half kilogram of bread per
day. Breakfast and supper consist, of one-half liter of unsugared coffee, and dinner
consists of one liter of soup. When a prisoner is being interrogated, he receives
only one-half kilogram of bread and one liter of coffee per day.
6. During the investigation of their cases, the prisoners spend most of their time at
interrogations, and it is quite common for an interrogation to last five or six days
without a break. Certain prisoners who. refused to confess to the charges were beaten
up, and others had to.stand at attention during five or six days of interrogation.
If a prisoner faintb,hi id' revived by havirig'strong Jets of water sprayed over his
face. There are generally three to four interrogators, and they are relieved every
eight hours.
7. Other prisons known include the following:
a. The basement of the central police headquarters at 12 Karowa Street contains a
prison which is used principally for interrogations. Each of its 30 cells is
1 by 1.5 meters and has no window. The only air inlet is a slot in the door.
b. Department II of the Geeio*a' prison at 24 Anielewicza (formerly Gesia Street)
has 40 cells, which ar- reserved for use by the central police headquarters.
c. The prison labor camp at 26 Anielewicza Street is reserved for prisoners who
have been convicted. In early 1954 there were 5,000 prisoners in this camp.
Prisoners are put to work making concrete slabs, pipes,~and tubes. Although the
work is done without ar7 heavy mechanical equipment, norms are 50 percent higher
than those for ordinary workers. Prisoners live in wooden huts, each of which
quarters approximately 100 to 150 men.
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Sketch of Mokotow Prison
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Legend to Sketch of Mokotoy Prison.
1. Rakowiecka Street
2. Mokotowska Street
3. Sentry at main entrance
4. Outer entrance (iron gate)'to prison compound
5. Entrance to prison building area
6. Wire fence
7. Guard
8. Entrance to main building of prison
9. Main building (pre-war)
10. Main building (pre-war)
11. Post-war building
12, Pavilion 10 (post-war)
13. Interrogation building (post-war)
14. Post-war building
15. Fenced exercise ground for prisoners
16. Hospital (post-war)
17. Kitchen and laundry
18. Watchtowers
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