SOVIET SIGNAL UNIT AT CHRZANOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100460007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, Prior to r id-.:April 17;;0, a Soviet unit ,gas .u: rtered in a
caap consisting of log, buildings and situated in the woods allout two
i=::?rest of Chrzanow (Q 51/Y 85), on the southern side of the Chr?zanot r
Jaworzno (Q 51/y 76) roado The ca:..p could be seen from the road. A winged
soviet star :-ith lightning flashes was ::counted over the entrance to the
parse. Polish drivers engaged in black-market operations with the L+oviet
troops referred to the unit as a signal battalion-,
2, 3roups of Soviet signal soldiers with small trucks without tops were
frequently seen engaged in maintenance work on the telephone line running
earallel to the 011rzanow-Jacrorzno road and --)act the Jaworzno P y Camp,
onvoys of 10 trucks were observed frequently while they were on route
toward Katowice orior to the ::fiddle of February 1950, I3y that time the
troops seemed to have co:c;pleted the construction of a cable line from
Krakow (Z 51/Z 24) to Katowice, The cable., with a diameter of about 20 a9
was suspended in wire loops from the tolegraph poles standing there,
,Source followed the cable in the direction of Kra :ow as far as the street-
car terminal,
3. In the fall of 1943, Soviet signal troops had com')lcted construction of
a double telephone line from Jaworzno to Chrz~aovr, The wires had been
rigged to insulator brackets below the cross pieces of the telegraph
poles? 4
~Corucrit, Soviet motorized and signal units were loc- ted in Katowice
in ecec or T L 3, according to another watestecd source. At that tine the
signal units constructed a special co: municati on line from -atorrico to
Kraisoww, That line was coniir..aed r?- tae present
report and was _3robably maintained by the signal unit oI?.corved .pest of
Chrzanow0 It is co:zsiderod ;pocsihic that the unit ha,-' n-)ved there
from Katawice,
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