SOVIET FORTIFIED DISTRICTS (UR)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000300260010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/09/26: CIA-RDP82-00046R000300260010-9
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SUBJECT Soviet Fortified Districts
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50:00 .bout seven kilometers inside the USSR side of the
border, a single line of DOT's (Dolgovremennaya Ognevaya Tochka -
reinforced steel and cement pill boxes). The DOT's were large
enough to house a rifle platoon of 30-35 EM. These DOT's were
spaced at distances of 1* to 3 km. 50:00
50:00 these DOT's were part of a fortified district running
along the Lithuanian-German border, built by the USSR in 1941,
just before Germany invaded the USSR. I saw only these DOT's;
I saw no minefields, tank ditches, tank traps (dragon teeth),
barbed wire fences, or barricades.
2. In discussing these DOT's with other officers, I heard that they
were very ineffective in World War II; they were bypassed by the
Germans, and the Soviet army troops Manning them found themselves
marooned and either had to fight their way back to Soviet units or
surrender to the Germans.
I heard that.An the East, the USSR had strongly fortified districts.
Construction of these fortified districts was started before 1936
and figure'd in the battle with Japanese troops in the Chalchingov
area in 036 and in the Chasan Lake area in 1937. Construction of
fortified areas in the Far East was stepped up in 1940 and reached
its peak in 1942, when Hitler was before Moscow and the government
expected a Japanese invasion in the Far East. I never saw these
fortified districts, and my information is based on hearsay only.
I heard that these fortified areas had a depth of five-seven kilo-
meters, and had minefields, barricades, pill boxes, dragon teeth,
tank ditches, etc.
There were no fortified d-i-st-r-iet75--a-long the Turkmen-Afghanistan ,
-Border area..
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/09/26: CIA-RDP82-00046R000300260010-9