THE RED NAVY AT WISMAR AND STRALSUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600490002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 14, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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a. One flotilla of Soviet submarine chasers are now stationed
in Wismar and Stralsund respectively. The personnel, w t1..
the exception of the flotilla commander, the political
deputy to the flotilla cow tinder, and a half-flotilla .
leader, is-German. The ships are of the submarine chaser
;,type "Mittelmeer" which were being constructed at the end
of the war in Rostock, Danzig, and Gotenhafen. The twenty-
four ships of the Stralsund flotilla were constructed at
Rostock during the last year, They were taken to ialininp;rad
where they were placed in service by Soviet and German
machine. and transportation personnel. Informant kn'YVj
nothing about the flotilla stationed at T:ismar. The name of
the German half-flotilla leader in Stralsund is Lieutenant
Adamski who holds the Ritterkrouz. .After an airplane crash
near Novorossisk in 1942, he was taken prisonez by the
Soviets. Subsequently, he served as an inspector in the
Black Sea Naval Command. According to informant, the
members of the submarine chaser flotilla are without ex-
ception former members of the R-flotillas of Pill au and
Gote ihafen, The cormanders of the ships are former German
active deck officers (Oberfeidhrebel).
b. There are at present in Stralsund twelve Soviet submarines
of the latest types manned by German crews.
e. The presence of Soviet submarines, which surfaced in packs of
three in the western Baltic Sea, has been repeatedly confirmed.
They were, however, mostly sighted in the area of the Poe.-
meranian bay (Pommersche Bucht)0
do The fishing ports near Stralsund have been cleared and o vned.
Fishing boats along the coast of Rfigen Island and in the
region of Grabow Inlet have been repaired and refitted,
Improprieties in the transportation of catches to the cold
storage buildings of Stralsund have resulted in a Soviet order
which requires all boats to travel to their former grounds
under the supervision of Soviet motorboats. In the district of
the southern Bodden they must follow prescribed channel routes.
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