NAVAL INFORMATION FROM SWINEMUNDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700180007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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A S f o~a.?ting do k, composed of two sections, arrived in the naval basin of
the 3w:~nemflnde shipyard on 9 August 1951 and is now anchored there. Its origin
is not known.
~ss9is3S h, f:u~st ten days of August the Russians mounted six coastal artillery
grms on the permanent concrete positions located ^.t the intersections of the
Sine .': vor and the canal. The guns, which were transported by railroad from
the i.n'or for of Polla.nd, are believed by source to have a caliber of about 150 mm;
^o set about 40 meters apart on the empla.cemonts and are well camouflaged.
Cf serw.ci in the K arbor at Swinem4nde was an unusual number of small Soviet
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21 rapid motor boats: five of the GO class and 16 of the OK class;
the latter bore a three-numbered designation
20 trawlers, six of which were equipped with radar
12 torpedo-cutters
4, F- ?iy in the Zor?ning of 11 August two Russian destroyers, each with two snoke-
sttacks a were observed proceeding in an easterly direction about five miles
distant froru the Swinem 1 de coast. .
The ~F4 1 coast artilleryr at Janogrod, near xiisdroy, has been augmented by the
ad ition of four guns which have been mounted on permanent corn rate positions.
These;uuns are serviced by part of a naval. contingent of 300 cen stationed at
the San
,3D location. The men are quartered in a large barracks which formerly
was a Gl-rma,n hospital.
5. rapid motor torpedo boat, the ST-81 and tae OKON, a gunboat (kanonierk .)t
have ba:. ~n added to the Polish naval units based at Strinemfin ee
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