TRAINING CENTERS FOR GERMAN COMMUNISTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200050005-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 24, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY Poland/USSR
SUBJECT Training Centers
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In-addition to the training camp for German Communists inside the USSR,
Soviet authorities have set up two training centers outside the Soviet Union.
They are:
a. The "M.S." (Nestschule), in Kaliningrad (dnigmberg)
b. The "S.A." (Schuteamt), at Lignica (Liegnits).
2. The "W.S.", which occupies several villas In the suburbs of Kaliningrad
(Anigsberg), Is under the direction of Imre Schick ? a German Communist of
Hungarian origin who has been a reeideet of the. USSR since 1923. Eia brother
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peespeets TheAmerican Review of Soviet Medicine" does not list IMP
on thestaff).
At the mN.S." a course on the US, England, France? and Poland is given to
German prisoners of ear whom the Soviet authorities decide to release and
send home -- men who are regarded as capable of undertaking CoMmuniet propaganda.
A large percentage of these students are young officers, former members of the
SS or SA,
The school itself is a. purely German Inetitution with Germaltasetheolanguage of
instruction, but it is inmpectRd by Soviet Lt. Colonel S.M. Marinove commander
of the MIX) frontier forces at lilsit. The lecturer on Poland is the former
head of German Intellionce In Vilno, one PaUl Heinemann.
4. The center known as "S.A.", set up in Lignica (LIegnite)? where Marshal
Rokossovoky has his Northern Group Ueadquarters? is responsible for directing
Germans trained In Russia to Positions in the adminiettative and seeurity
aweless in the British, American? and Soviet Zones.
The staff is -composed of 42 persons of whom 29 are German and the remainder
Russian. The commander of the camp is evSoviet MVD officer name Vasili
gmovitch (sic) Duraashkin.
'6. The chief tasks of the "S.A." are to ascertain that the Germans being sent
home froath4interior of RUesi4 are really truetwortby enough to carry out
the tasks aseigned to .them? and to provide them with the necessary documents
and cover etories about their time in Soviet captieritYe The "S.A." directs
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barely three percent of the Germans who pass through it to the Soviet Zone --
the rest? armed with suitable doeuments, go to the western zones of Germany.
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