MISCELLANEOUS SEEPOLIZEI ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400280008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Gerr.any (Russian ;,one)
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Miscellaneous :eepolizei Activity
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 27 :1ova 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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OP 199 CONTB lS IN AM NANNBD TO AtI DNAOTRORIIRD PORSOrI IN PRO-
1191T?D SY LAS- DBPRODOCTION OP THIS FORM IS PSOS101TSD..
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Since January 1951, a Seepolizei sea rescue squad (i'ettunF s and ;k:rgungc--
ko ands) has been located at Sasanitz on the Island of Rftgen. It is sub-
ordinate to the 3cepolizei off ice in Sassnitz harbor and ultinately to the
1r,13 in Therlin. Sassnitz is in coiraunication with Dcrlin through Radio :?Ug n
at Glowe. It is also connected by telephone with the Soepolizei school at
Pass. The telephone nurfocr of this unit in Sasenitz is Dora 27.
2n The head df the squad is Korn 2anc?eur Karl Kr 1ger
The chief diver is at Frost fnu) The master diver is
Kern. ;r?adti~e (fns? The head a ie personnel branch is 50X1-HUM
Ilrr:ptwachtmoistcr "al-art (fnu) The na.ies of the other
officers of the squad are unlmcnan. The unit has a complement of 62 non;
22 of 'tzcse men operate the two yes ;els VONI 1)': 4 L?I"!I and. 13 PL0 I. The
unit also has 3 automobiles and four trucks.
3, The diving boat VON D LL", 4. ~ ; was built in Gorr.iany in 1940-1L.. It has a
length of 30 n., a bean of 6 m, a depth of 2.2 m and cari be driven at a speed
of eight sea miles per hour by its 250 hp '-)cut-- engine. It has a D.'T of
150. The vessel is equ=ip"ed with seven diving cults and enuiroient for
cutting above and below the surface of the water. It is also equipped vrllth
an TT 100 w wireless transmitter., The crow of t elve non is tinder the
con.mand of Kern Zillich (fnu)
50X1-HUM
u. The rescue ship 1L Gi:~%. I was built in Geruany in 1916 as a torpedo recovery
vessel. It has a length of 21 ra, a beam of 3.8 rr, a depth of 1.2 m and can
be driven at a speed of 12 sea miles per hour by its CO hp March Diesel enj,ine.
It has a 13R3T of 94. It is enuipped with a fire extinguisher with a capacity
of 1,500 liters per minute, one diving suit, one salvage pump powered by a
33 hp Diesel engine, one -rimless transmitter of 100 watts, one light riac h .:e-
gun with 500 rounds, one mac?uric pistol tirith 250 rounds, and one pidtol ;4th
100 r ~^ is cornna.nded by Ilauptwachtueister Dachner
(fnu) The boat was sent to ';tralsund recently 50X1-HUM
for ho installation of a new motor.
CONFIDENTIAL
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Class. Changed To: TS
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Date: it I6417i
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CENTRAL I'1TETJJGI ICE AGIIICY
The crews of both these vessels have no clcar idea of their duties. They
have been told of_icially that their main duties are rescue-and salvage work
which includes the raising of sunken objects. Occasionally# this work may
include the salvage of torpedoes. At present.4 their main activity is practice
navigation in the vicinity of 1Ugen. Th are also to check merchant vessels
in the vicinity, especially those of registry. This is considered
important since fishing cutters from North Sea ports are known to have run 50X1-HUM
into Sassnitz to sell their catches ann. refuel, The activity of the two
vessels mentioned above is not restricted to coast patrol and recovery duties,
however. In Uayr 1951, Zillich and the two engineers from the VON DER LUT1
and the SERGER I sailed from Sassnitz on the BERGER I to Paraw where one of
the engineers wont ashore on a confidential mission,, After this man returned
to the MERGER I$ the vessel made contact with a ship at sea and 50X1-HUM
packages of pamphlets were loaded from the BERGER I onto the ship. In July
1919 the VON DER LUTE was used for a similar mission.
CONFIDENTIA7.
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