ALLEGED MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS ON THE SOVIET-AFGHAN AND SOVIET-IRANIAN BORDERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A005901320001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

FORK NO. 54_4B
DEC 1951
Approved For Release 2002/07/29 : CIA-RDP80-00926AO05901320001-2
U.S. Officials Only
CONFIDENTIAL -
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR/Afghani*tan/Iran
25X$UBJECT Alleged Military Developments on the Soviet ighan and
Soviet-Iranian Borders.
DATE (OF INFO.) Aug -Sep 52
25X1
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THEMEANING OF TITLE 10. SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE?
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE D I STR.' 1.953
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
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1. "Soviet police and military units were shifted in August 1952 from Ashkhabad and
Bamarkand to the Bwroabad area on the border of Afghanistan. A new airfield has
been built in Burosbad for border patrol Manes.
2. "Reserve units belonging to the Frontier Guards Regiments are beinlg trained in Ihir.
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Ibad on the frontier between the Us-Cox man and the Tadl
"in the town of Terms there are about 400 agents and guards of Afghan nationality.
Most of them have crossed the border illegally from northern At stan. they
are all Coanists with a thorough knowledge of local conditions on the Afghan
side of the border.
4. "A special military intelligence unit Was set up at the beginning of ?iepteoet 1952 in the
town of Mary in the Turkmen SBR. Its task is to establish links between various
Iranian tribes in the Meshed valley. It aims to organise armed bends within Iran."
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