TRANSPORT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS TO ARCHANGEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A006600010006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2006/02/06 : CIA-RDP80-00926AO06600010006-4
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C ONF IDEb iTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Transport of Political Prisoners to Archangel
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I U M CONTAINS IN OENAT ON AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANIND OF TITLE 1E. SECTIONS 767
AND 764. OF THE U.E. CODE. AS AMENDED, ITS TEANSMISSION 01 [EYE.
LATIOH OF ITS CONTENTS TO Cl ECCEIFT ST AN UNAUTHOEI CED FEWSON IS
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE D I STIR. / Ssrr.953
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NO. OF ENCLS.
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REPORT NO.
1 ? "On 14 June '53 a',train .*ith about . 30 'freight cars carrying 'convict manpower' (nri7-?i?dite1-
na.4a rabotc,ha.ia sit;,) 1tL l..~ .. the Estonian SSR for Archangel. Their Uestlnz..ciuca
was the Transport Department of the Archangel l ,'.ministration of the iYND (Trarsportnyi
otdel !xrtthen elsko o Upravlenia MV;O) Each c=ar 'iained at lc-u.st 40 Lol~i_t:i.cal iris Hers,
the total being 1200-1500.
"Persons who spoke to the personnel of the convict train learned that it is the rule
for them to fetch a-i train of this description from Estonia in June c-L every ;t,~ear. In
some years the train has had up to 60 freight cars. The TAT) Transport )~ l .rt ert .~
Archangel distribute.: the prisoners among the various labour cn.m, s locat i on the :'bite.
and Barents Seas, according to their manpower requirements. stont^ ccotr?ibute,3 x`ely
a, comparatively small -proportion of the manpower required. Most of c Yles rpm ';ire.
Ukraine snd the Caucasus. As a. rule the convict trains go only to Axc1 an,_e1. I+ r: m
there the c-lnvicts are moved to their destinations either on foot or b slli."
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