NOTES ON MILITARY FORCES OPPOSITE FINNISH FRONTIER; WORK ON ROADS AND RAILROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400520002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 25, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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U.S. OFFICIO ONLY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY OSSR (Kola Peninsula and Karelia)
SUBJECT
'Votes on Military Forces Opposite Finnish Frofitier=
York on Roads and Railroads
as noted
S- 25 March 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
DISTR!BLJTsON
WAR I NAVY
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1. Opposite the Finnish frontier, there are three main Russian military headquarters,
via., Ui rsnsk, Soroka (64(0 30' H, 350 E), and Petrozavodsk. There is a smaller
headquarters at Suoyar- i (62? 15' u, 320 30' 3). It is estimated that the number
of officers at the =.v:; -nsk, Sorokka, and Fetrozavodsk headquarters is sufficient
to staff eight to tan divisions. Them are very few armed soldiers to be seen
near these headquarters, but there are sizeable arias and an=lnitiozri dumps. The
officers carry out frequent reconnaissance and topographical trips towards the
West.
20 In the summer of 1946, there were artillery troops at Perkdarvi, motorized troops
Csz esnt: .411 points unidentified.) 50X1-HUM
3. Daring th ,.
1
%ork was in progress on an airfield at Niviniemi
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near
~77 Sakkola.
,
,
Co erzt : Possibly Sokolozero at 660 30' N, 310 E.) It :50X1-HUM
thought that the landing area was being hsrYte?azed and leveled.
5-
On the Karelian ^
been located. Th
Fifty to sixty th:
sth s, the
ere are no
ot:eac.d pris
re is no military activity and no headquarters have
troops :part from frontier guards.
oners (military and civilia.:?a) are at work on the
railway ? inking urmarsk and Arkhangelsk. Many of the Russian prisoners
1111borated" from PW ' camps are employed in this work. 50X1-HUM
at Enso and fax tvil..a, and two battalions (',Z heavy tanks (30 tanks) at Implyarvi..
During the au-%Iu.u.
Kiestint:.t area.
-gout work eas in progress on the roads in the Uhtua--
Comm nt : Pos s ibl y Ukhta, 65? N, 310 E.)
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