SEVENTH ADMINISTRATION OF THE GPU, SOVIET ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800690003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 2, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENT AL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
COUNTRY
USSR
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Seventh Administration of the GVU, Soviet AnW
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25X1A6a Ga~rune t: , - reported that, the 7th Section of the Soviet Army
General Staff had. been dissolved; the followin report indicates that it still
exists or has been reactivated. 25X1A2g
1. After the Administration of Agitation and Propaganda (Agitprop), the Seventh
Administration (Upracrlenie) is the largest of the various administrations in
the Chief Political Administration (GPU) of the Soviet Arnn?.
The operational abbreviation for this section is "GPU - 70. The full name is
"Administration fo the Demoralization of Ener.: r Troops" (Upravienie po rabote
aredi armii 5ois$ / protivnika.). The fall new is rarely used, and then only
in orders for off (.-er personnel.
The position of GF'i - 7 in the Armed Forces is shown in the followin? diagram:
7th Section----
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L of tfilitas District of Group of Armies
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7th Section
Division Staff
In the diagram, the Russian words "upravienie", "otdel", and "otdelenie" are
translated as "administration", e'section", and "sub-section", respectiv i'.
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4. The =_?1` sion of 7th Section; in wartime is as follows;
a) Organization Of apolitical intelli'ance in the enemy array throwth dis-
patched a'rant O and rith the help of rarnanent (long-range) CP agents.
b) Political indoctrination of the enorr arty throu^th nets of ?tgitator-
pronaqindiets of this CP and throuth active re hods, such as radio,
nezrspapers, aerial leaflets.
Creation of nets of active agitators in the fortrard 1inect lotxdsp3aker-
eciuipped officers and soldiers from reconnaissanoe units.
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d) Political nra?rram`ion of the enemy population.
Swenth Section in =rectors and instriiotors train their non-T/O helpers from
anong Communists of nilita.ry units. Ordinarily these helpers are in recon-
naissance units and carry out special tasks. For example: a) the co m4ander
of a reconnaissance unit gets in touch tiith a 7th Section agent in an opposing
enerw formation; b) the commander of a front-line unit provides protection
and safe. passace throunh the line for 7th Section: agents, etc.
6. Cases arc I mom in - =rhi ch non-T/O assistants to 7th Sections assigned to for-
ward reconnaissance units undertook to "stren.gthen the fi'hting spirit"
of Soviet units I Ty the corpses of Soviet soldiers and officers
killed 1 the Gor sns and :lying in no-man's--land and then showins them as
acts of one-gyp- '-jesty-ality.
7. It is knot, that larre nurthers of Corrrtznist officers of the enemy arrT here
in the service of 7th Sections. !!any of then.. iere ?--tvon officer's rink in
the Soviet b my and, uerG decorated Frith order, and --edals.
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