UNDERGROUND CABLE (WARSAW - MOSCOW)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400020008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
COUNTRY USSR (Lithuanian.SSR)/Poland
SUBJECT Underground Cable (Warsaw - Moscow)
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
Ig
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 14 June 1954
NO. OF PAGES 4
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
ARMY review completed.
STATE
ARMY #X I NAVY
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COUNTRY USSR (Lithuanian SSR) Poland
SUB3ECT Underground Cable (Warsaw - Moscow)
PLACE ACQUIRED
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
This report was prepared by US Army interrogators.
1. In July or August 195
54-25, E 23-137 of the 9th Det. stationed at Mari of
54-33 E 23-2
MVD signal' officers would come into the are
to lay a telephone cable line.
supervise and observe a connec ing
of cables at the Polish - USSR border, checked identification
of the members of the oable-laying detail which came to Kalvaria.
Members of the detail consisted of one MVD captain, two or three
MVD lieutenants, all in civilian clothes, and 15 to 20 male
Lithuanian signal technicians and laborers.
n n eu enan s were s gna spec a s s, an
the cable they'were laying originated in. Moscow. It was to be
connected. with a cable line originating in Warsaw at a point 17 km.
southwest of Kalvaria at the Polish-USSR border. This cable, a
high frequency direct line, could carry six to eight conversations
simultaneously, and was to be used in wartime only.
The cable was laid-in a ditch 1i-2m.,deep which ran 5-10 M. west of
P t e Kaunas /if .5 - - walki 11 5L-06, E 22-57 road
ee Encl. A7- ~ the ca le came from Kaunas to
ariyampol, and Kalvaria w ere it was joined to cable laid by Polish
.technic ane oin to Suwalki, Bialys ok 53-08, 2 -10 and
Warsaw.
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The cable"was-2 em. in diameter and seemed to be covered with a
plastic or soft. lead.
After the cabs -was placed in-the ditch, and the' ditch-was-covered,
there were no markers placed to identify the route of the cable
line.
construe on on the cable
line was completed about August1951, at which
time the cable from the-USSR reached the border, and was joined
with''the cable from Poland. The cable was laid, and crossed the
border,-under'barbed wire obstacles, plowed earth strips and
electric detection devices used to protect the Polish - USSR
border.
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USSR side of the border when the lines were connected. On the 25X1
Polish side was a captain in the uniform of the Border Guards,
with green collar flashes, hatband, and shoulder boards, and two
uniformed Polish Border Guard EM.
or e 7th Border Company, 2nd Bn., 9th Det.
The Soviet detail worked for about one month
clothes, who worked on the ditch.. Three men'on each side dug the
ditch, and some Polish signal technicians, together with the
Soviet signal technicians, supervised the joining of the cables.
The ditch was then covered with earth, which took about one hour.
observed a detail of 10 - 12 Polish males, dressed in civilian
connecting of the cables.. On the Polish side of the border
All the aforementioned officers, Polish and Soviet, observed the
Enclosure A
Pinpointed Location of Telephone Cable Line from Kalvaria
ff 54-25, E 23-117 to the Polish - USSR Border
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Enclosure.A
Pinpointed Location of Telephone Cable Line
from SALVARIA(5425N-2313E) to the Polish - USSR Border
LEGEND:
1.
Cable 'line 5 to 10 &. West
.of highway
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Highway from SAUNAS to
SUWALKI - WARSAW
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USSR- Polish Border
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5500N
300E
20 4A
UVALSI (54061-22563),
t2330E
00N
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