MILITARY UNITS IN ESTONIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007100630007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 12, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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C'ENTR>AL' 'Ii11TELLLGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information Affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.B.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized Orion is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (EstonFLah SSR)
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
1. D.uring:: 19-54.jthpre, v~er$'. teary,:, fe:A :Sal,dl erE;: ,of . ?a 6:isn 1zati,on a ty in. Ettonia. Most
of the Army units stationed in Estonia belonged to the Estonian Corps.\,
This Corps had Russian officers in the senior ranks., but alo, some
Estonian officers.. Most of the troops. were E'sxtonians,, but, :dbm- ,e were
Russians who had, been called up.while they were living-in E enia.
2. The Estonian Corps had barracks and camps at the following place-s:
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a. Permanent barracks of wartime or prewar construction: at J'~u+hkerttali,
south- southwest edge. of Tallinn
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b. Permnent.barracks at Tondi,.a suburb between Tallinn arid. N&mme.
Military Units in Estonia
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A camp of huts at Jagala, which is 30 kilometers east off" Tallinn
:on the road to Tartu. The camp covers several "squa4re kilometers
on the south side of the road. About 20 new bar-radk huts were
built there at the end of 195 , each :designed to hold abut 40'men.
d,. "A similar camp area .at'Ao,gviidu, .wh2ch.,ie. 0 ,kilometers `fig sit-s uth-
0_afft..o JaAel!a on the Tallinn-Tartu road.
3. There were artillery and engineer units in barracks at Juhkentali.
there was a firing range at:Klooga, which is 28: kilometers
west :southwest of Tallinn, on the road to Paldiski. Officers and men
wearing artillery and infantry uniforms were seen there in the:fal1 of
195+, ;and a't J~ga is and'-Aegvi i u during 1954,
4+. The following military traffic was seen conthe Tallinn akvere road
during the'winter of 195+ - 1955: armored troop carriers, capable of
carrying 15 to 2Q 'men; motorcycle combinations (sib) flttedwrit'h machine
guns; large three'-axled trucks towing four-wheeled open tragkier~s which
carried men, andup1ples; antiaircraft guns mounted on trucks; and short-
barrelled f e'1i . j&n of about 10 cm. )cAliber,, which were also} carried
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5. In March 19,54., a company or more of A troops wearing black shoulder
board were D~seen in a, camp of huts aft Orissasre, which is on theorth-
east coaYs~t of Ssaremaa.Is nand (see sketch .map onn page 3) . This, Wa?s a new camp,
surrounded, by a pa~lioade, 100 me~tems north of the ma'inn road om Orissaare
to Kur.e,s'saare offdk Just Kest. of the prewar "Iordon" ~camp at 0ri-s~saare, which
at the tiWe of the obseryation was occupied by WD B.order.,; Trad~aps'r .:. .
6 . In March 119,5?+, 25% men. wearing black ehoulder: boards :,were been`' a?ta similar
camp at He0l'lemaa,which is 14 kilometers east-northeast of~ Or 1ssaare;,
on Muhu Isblan&. This camp was estimated to contain one company, a nd
was located on the south side of the, main road from Be,llemaa' to, 0r-~issaare,
at the intersection of the road which runs north to. Rau.
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