ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF FORCED LABORERS IN MAGADAN OBLAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500870002-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 19, Sections 790 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is prohibited
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USSR (Magadan Oblast)
SUBJECT Attempted Escape of Forced Laborers in
Magadan Oblast
REPORT
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4 May 1955
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. In spring 1953,, a gre4p of about 25 forced laborers in Camp Lame (N63-13,E152-10)
organized for the purpose of escaping and fleeing toward Sey*han (N62-53, E152-26).
They were political prisoners who had allied themselves with free workers in
Lazo.
2. The leader of the group was Nikolay (l4u), a one-eyed areixi,who was an assistant
in the planning and production division (proizvoditvennaya i planaxraya chast -
PPCh) in Camp Lazo. His exact title was roster keeper (naryadehik); he kept the
lists of prisoners going to work and sick lists. he two other leaders were
the chief of the camp restaurant and the foreman of the brigade which worked
in the mechanical shop. Among the other .members a Polish- 25X1
Ukrainian called "Zhenka". There was also a Hungarian in the group.
3. The rebels managed to laske some hand grenades with discarded dynamite. Normally,
only free workers were allowed to handle dynamite; but some of then bad been
careless, and the rebels managed to obtain some. The plot was discovered., because
one of the members of the rebel group tested the hand grenades at the wrong
ttlae. Dynamite was exploded in the mine at 060a,, i600, and 2000 hours,daily.
When the unusual explosion was heard, the prisoner was seiaed# questioned, and
forced to confess the plot. Since that time, only soldiers have been allowed
to handle dynamite in the Lazo Cassiterite Mine.
~+. After the plot was discovered, six men, includigg Tikolay the one-eyed leader,
were shot; 17 were sentenced to 25 years at bard labor; and two received
sentences of 10 years.
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the plot v,--js blamed or Colonel Bacharov (fnu), one of the
assistants of General Vlassov, Bacharov was a small, stout man with green
eyes and red hair, who had been sent to Camp Gulikhari in the Lazo area.
He was under special guard; one soldier was always assigned to him. He spent
the nights in solitary confinem