MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY AND RAILROAD INFORMATION ON RZESZOW PROVINCE
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CENTRAL '''1f TELLIGENCE' AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FI RT CD NO.
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Militmry and Railroad
25X1 Inform tion on Rzeazow Province
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OF THE UNITED STATES. HIYNIN THE HSARISG OF TITLE 18. SECTtO,(3S 783
ANSI 734. OF THE U. 3. CODE. AS AMENDED, ITS TRANSMISSION OS REVEL
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1. Before the war Przemrsl was it very large garrison t.oz and it now has many
barracks. Tet the civilian population at Prsemys.1 is being roved above` vi.thin
the town in order to make available as much living space as possible for the
Polish And Soviet, officers and soldiers and their fare .lies who constitute
almost half of the oonula.tiorL of Przemysl. A nutaber of Poles who were der?ted
from. Silesia and Krakow have been brought to Przersle while a number of Pr zemrsl
residents who are suspected by the government hare been deported to the province
of Olsztyn (Allenstein). Most of the Polish units are quartered in 7asanio, a
suburb of Prze psl. The barracks in Przerirsl are occupied by Soviet sy. r force and
armored troops.
2. The Polish garrison nt Przsmysl is ccrxposed of the following units
a. Headquarters of a Polish infantry division
b. An infantry regiment
c. An anti-aircraft regiment
d. An engineer battalion
e. 1 medical battalion
f. A liaison company
h. - A KBW (Korpus Bezpieczeustwa Wewnetrznego) regiment, the companies of which.
are located in various-towns` throughout the province.
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also two Soviet armored regiments, approximately tna ,-a t:er in
7urawi6a is a small locality s:ituatdd about 5 km north of Prsemysl. Before the
war it was a center for Polish. armored troops,, equipped with work shops and
assembly plants for tanks and at present the Polish garrison is composed of one
tan(; regiment of two battalions equipped with the Soviet T-34 tanks.. Them are
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strength than the Polish unit; the Soviet units are equipped with T-34 tanks,
as well as with larger tanks. There are at present in Zurawiea a large number
of Soviet soldiers and civilians who are employed i_n the construction of the
followings
a. Large iron liquid fuel tanks, which extend partly into the ground and partly
above ground; each tank contains about, two million liters of fuel, princi-
pally light gasoline for airplanes, coming from Rumania by land transportam
tibn. The tanks are placed outside Zurawica, separated from each other by
several hundred meters, painted in different colors, and connected together
by underground pipe lines which all run to a large building equipped with
underground pumping equipment.. seven such tanks which 25X1
were already completed and were very we 'concea a ei,.hth t nk
which was in the process of construction. the 25X1
Soviets plan to build a great maxW more such tanks.
b. A luxge,airf eld located between Zurawica and the Polish-Soviet border.
!uravica, rather than 24edyka, is also the transshipping border station for all
transports passing between Poland and the Soviet Union.*** A broad (Soviet)
gauge. railroad line leads east out of Zurawioa. The station at ?urawica, which
is equipped to handle three or four trains per hour going In both directions
twenty-four hours a day, was enlarged after the war to the point that it now
is larger than the station at Przerral. Nedyka, a railroad center, is located
on the Polish-Soviet frontier; only Polish and Soviet frontier: guards are stationed
there but all custors controls are handled at "urawica rather.-than l:edyka. The
Poles are forbidden to cross over into the Soviet Union;'this applies-even to the
W.G.P. guiras. Except for the movement of Soviet military transports, no one is
permitted to cross here between Poland and the Soviet Union. Brest is the only
point on the Soviet-Polish border where passenger traffic is allowed to pass.
A short distance to the oast of Medyka and located south of the railroad is an
airfield on which is based'a strong Soviet air force unit composed for the
most part of fighters; they fly every day over Poland and are often forced. to
land on the Polish side of the border.
The large railroad bridge over the San River has been reconstructed and is in
very good condition at present; several groups of anti-aircraft artillery are
located around the bridge. The highway bridge over the San is a temporary bridge
which has been greatly strengthened so that it can carry very heavy tanks and
artillery pieces.
At Rzeszcw, about 60 km M4 of Przemysl, there is located=
a. A Polish infantry regiment
b. An artillery regiment
a. A XBW battalion
All the materials for the construction of these tanks and the
a'i'ry -W comae from Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovslcia, none of them coming
from the Soviet Union. No Poles are employed in any of this construction work.
25X1 Commmentnt: All railroad cars built at present in Poland for the Soviet
Union, particul.rly freight cars for transportation of coal, Saxe equipped in
.such a manner that when they come to Zuravioa from other parts of Poland on the
normal European gauge railroad, the interval between their wheels can be broadened
thus r*ermitting them to continue on the broad gauge railroad to Russia without
necessitating the traneloading of the cargo to other freight cars. The task of
broaiening the intervals of the car wheels i$, performed by a large group of Soviet
iror'kers who are under the direction of Soviet. engineers, All freight trains of
coal, uranium ore, special secret goods and deported peorle from Poland, East
Germany and Czechoslovakia go to the Soviet Union through 7urawica without
being transloaded, while freight trains carrying rails, other railway equipment
sugar, salt, phosphate salts, and other less important supplies are transloaded
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in 7urawica by, Polish workers onto broad-gauge freight cars. Military supplies
coning from the Soviet Union to "urawica are for the most Hart transloaded there
onto normal-gr4uge cars for onward shipment. Informant observed in June 1951
the transloading of two freight care of T-34 tanks from two Soviet freight
trains onto Polish freight trains, following which the trains left, headed west;
ea,oh freight train had about 24 tanks, one trink being mounted on each freight
oir.
25X1 *** Comments These bridges nre presumably located ntt Medyka,
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