ARMED FORCES BUILD -UP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A004400070006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY Poland
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ApprovMIRK"lalt P80-00926A004400070006-2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.1
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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10 In recent months :the Polish Army has received a considerable number of jet
planes and heats tanks. The planes are MG-9 and MT,G -15 . The tanks are
heavier than the Soviet T34+/85 which is an the Poles had until the summer
--of 1951 Polish railway employees report that there are heavy transports
of military equipment passing through Poland from east to west.
2. The class of 1931 is now being conscripted and should provide about 160 thousand
soldiers. In the year 1.951-2 conscripts of 1929, 1930 and 1931 Vil.l be
serving in the Polish Army.
3. The new Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, the Soviet General., Jan Turk lel,
is using almost exclusively Soviet pilots in the new jet planes.
a The former Commander-in.-Chief of the Air Force,, General. A Romeyko,. went back
to Moscow in the uniform of a Soviet general.
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CLASSIFICATION CC1NF1D IAL
WMY
Armed Forces Build-up
STATE D( I NAVY
NSRB
FBI
Approved For Release 2002/07/29 : CIA-RDP80-00926AO04400070006-2