1. UNIFORMS OF SOVIET BORDER GUARDS 2. SOVIET NAVY UNIFORMS AND SOVIET NAVAL ACTIVITY IN CONSTANTA

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• Publication Date: May 18, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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NFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL - INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT 1. Uniforms of Soviet Border Guards DATE DISTR.
2. Soviet Navy Uniforms and Soviet
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Naval Activity in Constanta
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SUBJECT 1. Uniforms of Soviet Border Guards - Land- NCLOFPACO 4
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Land Based Border Guards
1, at . i$ Batumi, Leningrad, and
xlaipeda, Lithuanian SSR, both land-based border,
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when they arrived in Soviet ports. These officers and EM made a
search of the vessels and checked personal identification documents.1
2. The border guard officers' uniforms had very dark blue, or black,
trousers with red piping on the seams, an olive-green tunic,
shoulder boards with a dark olive-green baokground, darker green
stripes and piping, a service cap with an olive-green top, and pos-
sibly a red hat band and red piping on the crown. On holidays or
dress occasions, shoulder boardS wIth a gold background were worn.
These border guard personnel were armed with pistols.
EM wore olive-green trousers, tunic, overseas-type cap, and high
black boots. Their shoulder boards had a dark green background with
red stripes. Collar and overcoat flashes for both officers and EM were
green. The EM who boarded vessels in the port as part of the search
party did not carry any weapons but the Un posted aboard the ship as
guards; carried the PPSh SMG ("balalarka"). EM posted on the docks
carried PPSh SMGe or rifles.
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6.
Maritime Border Guards
oviet patrol boats intercepted SOVR41-41.-.- vesse s a night,
about 15 miles outside of each Soviet harbor, and escorted them into
the port, the uniforms worn by this per-
sonnel consisted of ultramarine-gray trousers, a jumper with a light
blue collar flap, and a round navy-type cap of ultramarine-gray.
the cap had a green cap-band with hanging ribbons Eil;.:111
Ewore shoulder boards with green piping.
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there was Cyrillic letter-
ing in gold on the cap band of the EMs, cap.
At Leningrad in 1953, at Poti in fall 1953, and at Batumi in spring
1953, gray, wooden-hulled patrol boats, 8 to 10 in
long and about 2.5 in wide. They had an average spee4'of'15 knots and
were manned by six to eight men who wore the uniform of the maritime
border guards.
an open ee ouse, ree portholes amidships, with one 12.6 mm
HMG aft and possibly one 12.6 mm HMG forward of the wheelhouse.
a radio antenna which was for a radio-phone an
each vessel had an identification number painted on both
s es o e bow. The flag which the shi flew could not be defi-
nitely described) but it had a green horizontal
stripe on the lower part of the flag and a hammer and sickle on a
white background on the upper part. (See page4, for a sketch of
the patrol boat and a sketch of the lag.)
Soviet Navy j?) Personnel
narnor (mart in each port. The
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hung outside the trousers and which had cobalt-blue on the outside
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band and hanging ribbons, they were EM of the
Soviet Navy.
7. The uniform worn by officers on these craft consisted of dark blue
trousers, blouse, and service cap. They also wore shoulder boards
with a gold background, black stripes,and piping, and had gold stripes
500 sewn ln the cuffs of the blouse sleeve.
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RUMANIA
Soviet Navy (?) in Constanta
9. In the former Salvmar (Salvage Maritime) area of the port of Constanta,
three or four harbor craft,of the type described in paragraph 5, were
operated by Soviet personnel.
10. The officers on these craft wore dark blue trousers without piping on
the seams, dark blue jackets, shoulder boards with a gold background,
black stripes and piping, and service caps with a white crown and black
band.
11. EM wore gray jumpenswith cobalt-blue collar flaps, gray trousers, no
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hanging ribbons. Cyrillic latterirg,in gold, appeared on the band of the
cap. EM wore their rank insignia on the left sleeve above the elbow
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The only activities of the patrol boats occurred
in 1952 when the patrol boats served as !, escortsto a Soviet Navy.(?)
minesweeper which operated outside of Constanta harbor. In 1953, the
patrol boats were entering and leaving Constanta harbor. One
boat was always away from the dock and it was on
duty outside of the port area.
These patrol boats displayed a flag, rectangular in shape, and divided
into two wide, lengthwise stripes. The upper section, two-thirds of the
entire width, had a white background with a hammer and sickle on the
top left corner near the staff. The lower section was ultramarine.
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lieriot Patrol boat observed. In tit* USW
and tomania
- Piace for identification number
2 - Wooden hull, 8-10 n long. 2.5 n wide
3 - Portholes
4 - 12.6 inn RID
5,- Possible location of 12.6 mil RHO
6- Open wheelhouse
7 - Mast
8? Radio antenna
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