INTERNAL SECURITY CORPS (KBW)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600020006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
S-E-C-R-E-
SUBJECT
Internal Security Corps (KBW)
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
This material contains information affecting the lia-
tlonal Defense of tL. United Statee within the mean-
** of the Espionage Laws. Title 18. U.S.C. Seas. 70.3
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
my manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 27 May 1955
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Recruiting for the Internal Security Corps (KBW) is carried out by the 25X1
District Recruiting Center (WKR). Men selected must belong to Category A,
which signifies that they are of proletarian origin, members of the Com-
munist Party, and have no relatives abroad.
2., Men enlisted in the KBW, in addition to normal military training, are taught
antipartisan fighting, sabotage, antisabotage, and security measures.
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3. KBW Headquarters (Komenda Glowna KBW) are on ul. Rakowicka, Warsaw.
4. The pick of the KBW are drafted into the Ochrona Rzadu (OR), a unit the
duty of which is to protect government officials and buildings.,
5. The Warsaw barracks of the OR are in the Belvedere which is the official
residence of President Boleslaw Bierut who, however, generally stays in a
villa at Czerniakow (R53/LO8) which formerly belonged to the Frdz-Smigly family.
6. Discipline in the OR is particularly stringent. The men in this unit are given
a special three months' training course in which political and ideologicE
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subjects form the greater part.
7. Upon completing their two years'compulsory service, members of the OR attend
an eight months' course at Legionawo (N 52-24, E 20-56). On completion of
the course they are posted to the Security Police, the Intelligence Service,
given special civilian employment, or detailed as bodyguards to Bierut or
other members of the government.
8. A special unit of the OR, which has five aircraft always in a state of
readiness at its disposal, is stationed on the Warsaw-Okecie Airfield.
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