4TH WOP BRIGADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014100090012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY
Poland
SUBJECT 11th WOP Brigade
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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DATE DISTR. 17 October 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
the following ships were assigjed to the 11th WOP (Milit
Border Guard) Brigade at Gdansk (Danzig):
The speed boats.HELand DZIERZYNSKI
Each boat is equipped with two guns,
and one heavy and.one light,machine gun, and each vessel takes a crew of
b:. The tugs IRNINO and WAL POMORSKI?
gun and two heavy machine guns.
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They are armed
Ten former German landing craft, including the SOW, POWIS,LE, PRAGA,
OCHOTA,,STAROWKA,.and WOLA;: These landing craft are ab-out fourteen meters
long and .have a speed of about' ten milts an hour. They take' a five_ to
crew, and are equipped with a light machine gun on the foredeck. They
are able to transport about forty men and equipment. Decks tift-b been
construdted on.the boats by.the Poles. These vessels are used by the WOP
in.patrdl-ling,the coast, and 1n miscellaneous duties in port. They are
not seaworthy during heavy winds Or storms at sea.since they are.flat-
bottomed
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Three q utters
These vessels are s mp e fishing cutters which have been equipped with-one
heavy and one light.machine gun.
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2. The fleet of the 11th WOP.Brigade is scattered throughout the, mall harbors
in the Gdansk area,.beginning with the harbor at Katy Rybackie on the Polish-
Soviet frontier, and including Nowy Port (Gdansk), Sopot (Zoppot), Gdynia,
Hell Wladyslawowo, andLeba. Patrol of these harbors is the responsibility of
STATE NAVY
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the 4th Brigade.
Sailors asstgited to WOP ships -wear -naval uniforms with the inscription
Wo jskowa Ochrena :Pogranicza .. WOF ships fly the smmie flag that is"'used
by the Polish Navy, but the flag . &gruen edge, since green is the color
which designates WOP units.
7~__ ]Comment; has reference to Katy
(Bodenwnkel-Q55 y 2 , which is situated. on the western end of 50X1-HUM
.Wislana (Frische Nehrung-Q55/203). $
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