POLISH TROOPS IN BYDGOSZCZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007700300010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OBTAINED
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A barracks installation (called Artillery Barracks, fronts on
ui0 Artyleryska in the south, on iu1. Polnocna in the north,, and on ula 1.
Baja in the east in Bydgoszcz (P 541J 09)? It consists of numerous four.-story
barracks build i_ngs and some other buildings m An officers, mess
is located at the southwostorn corner of the billeting area, at 14,17 Alea to
officers who regularly attended the mess, -- -- - a 25X1
general occasionally appeared at the mess, n o or o _ cers, incliid. _Ljo inc 2 or 1 Soviet officers,p ate at the mess daily. In the suamer of 19499
adr:itioniil meals were served periodically the osta 25X1
stil another o cersb mess :vas located a r
2, Another barracks installation (called Infantry Barracks is located
on U. Polnocna, and joins the Artillery Barracks to the north. This installa-
tion also contains several multi-story barracks buildings.
Art-i.Uer ar o infantry units were quartered in both barracks installations. 25X1
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and also saw artillery pieces drawn by teams of six horses, The units left
the installations daily for trainin7 Maneuvers -core held in Pomerania each
year from 1947 to 1949e many units moving through B
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on the way to, and returning from , the maneuvers in the sum;:,or months.
4G Single Soviet motor vohicles,, re obserired i n the streets of the city
almost daily. a;
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anr'. Til a trey arracks in Bydgoszcz. The Artillery Barracks is believed to
quarter a motorized artillery unit and the Infantry Barracks a ? `r (Internal
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