MEMBERS OF THE FORMER 'WIKING' SS ARMED FORCES DIVISION IN ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003800530006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC lvc ,be:r s of the Former ', .' inn. " S ,1Lr ed Arees )ivision in
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Members of the former German Wt' iking" SS Armed Forces Division
are said to have formed a special unit in the P`." camp of
KRA iNOGORSX in June .949 The unit was alle, edly "shipped to
Bulgaria and. From there, by airy to Albania.
2(. A German brigade of about eight hundred men is said to be
located in Albania. The brigade is allegedly commanded by
a brother of PIECK, chairman of the SFD Socialist Unity
Party)a
this document is hereby regraded to
CONFl0E.NT1AL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
to the
of the Central
United Intelligence States.
VIS of
ArChI
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
DATE PREPARED
18 October 1949
Next Review Date: 2006
CONFIDENTIAL
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Approved For Release 2005/12/23 : CIA-RDP82-00457R003800530006-0