SOVIET TROOPS IN THE STETTIN PORT AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008800220008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTP 'Pill it:h-cl ttr 7 ed REPORT NO.
7f3~''iO Soviet Troop .n Vhe Stettin Port Area
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to the northeast. In addition to r uard duty the troops did loaf in. and
maintenance work in the free port. Polish stevedores of the Polish firm
Hartwig and some German experts were also employed in the area by order of
the Soviet Arm ;r.,
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Soviet troops f%uarded the free pore About 5500 soldiers, .-rho wore equipped
with small arras only, were billeted in the area of the free port$ in the
former administration building on the north side of u10 Bytanska and in the
former health office of the port., which adjoins the adm4nistration building
north side of ttl d Piotr^a olkar i., between Al. lojska Poiskiego and Al. km ii
Ozerwonej, and was klown to source as the Komandantura0,
?hr:, headquarters, on ul. Piotra :T11-car p;i was commanded by a Soviet colonel and
staf~,' sd with a large nuriibor of officers of different ranks. Details from
the headquarters for duty in the free port arrived o three trucks,, The officers
wore rod91 black., light,- and dark-blue cap bandsr It was rumored in the port
area that the headquarters received instructions from Karlshorst (N 53/Z 9L)
la The free port in Stettin (0 54/Q 541 was co