KHAZHAMSKAYA MILITARY PRISON CAMP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000730012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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J.9.50, a conce:ItszAion qamp for preliminary detention of military pritsto-l's
maintained by the !:4.Ariet Army one half mile east of Tnambamskayafam
4,JA Vt0-, WIOV-6 90 miles seInl of Khabarovsk (135-06, 48-30)? PrisoMrCat
roken oilitary law of the Soviet Union In the Far East 'Mere detained In
pylw te trial, l'gist of the prisoners bad been. arrested for sabotage
e3pionao and 'clad been kopt in other ca Aps before bei4brought to froithan.
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he cano prisoners ware investigated and questioned by a Soviet officer on
^ tx.s:YJJ 6f dossior-s sent with the prisoners to the camp. If the offender
-ander cwstioning he was beaten and put in solitary confinement fcy
Ti.0,12. (70 five days. There vas one Chinese interpreter TAE To-song* and tiv
interpreter, who sidvd in the investigations, making a preliminary in
before the Scvlet officebegan his questioning,. After investigation,
^ p.T:Lsoner wan rc,moved tron the camp for trial,
80 vriconer lt the (3,_mp, pbont 40 were Chinese, 16 White Russianp 12
10-,ean Wropean, and 4iiongellan and Soviet, Nest of the Koreans in the
? WA'S hold,for uprisings against the Soviet Ariv in Korea. :Among them vere
11G -Yh,AkTu and we others who had beezt in a fight with Sovie
Idiers in Son/cher (124-54., 39,40) in jtulnary 1947, Most of the Chinese
? vrFre fiz-Uationr=jiztt noldiers?
I!he chief of the camp was Colonel. Volinuq, about 45 years old, who was for:mrly
T.;uator of the Khabarovsk Judge Advooate4s office, The executive ?Mc:3r
? nionim, about 32 years ?]d, a Soviet first lieutenant, The chief jltlAr
? Pavel Vazavskir, a captain, about 30 years old The Chinese interpretlr,
ms about 36 years old and had the rank of a Soviet first ISIluten-
a, One of the jailws was Yavnin, a 23-year old private first c/ass.
gctbaT. there 1,7ere 15 Coviet officers and men, seven jallors and five employees.
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we three red 'orick detention buildings, each .60 yards by 15 yards 1,Tct
tT5,2-2t,? Yo oa.rohouse5, each 32 yards fyy 5 yards? and three other buildings, There
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ucra GIN detention rooms:, eachs041,4Tiodating 10 to 15 mea, In each room thee
7.Jo.s one stove, one toilet, and two 1-rge wooden beds for the men. One blanket
rc issued to each man. There were also a number of solitary confinement rooms
jbout 6 feet by 6 feet, without window, The entire earip was surrounded by a
barbed wire fence which was electrified, Throe guard boxes were set into the
nce at intervals?
,retkfi!..st and supper consisted of 200 grams of black broad; a cup of tea and.
30 aranS of salted ver?etables, Lunthi was 200 grams of blank broad and a cup
or ploAn water, Two or three prisoners died each week of unspecified di:Aga:3e;
no announcement as ever made, but after each death all cells were disinfected,'
Prisoners in the cells were not allowed to talk to one another?
25X1A Coi. This is a Korean romanization; since no characters were -
received, the correct Chinese reading cannot be given.
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