1. BALTIC COAST DEFENSE 2. SOVIET-BLOC PLANS AND CAPABILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R005900120004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 9, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION TU< - sLcRLTIca TRO- "
CENTRAL lNT 9. L P CE AGE-
COUNTRY Poland/U zSR/ ~~ ?r ;~ a~ August 1950
SU8I EC T 1. Baltic Coast Defense N i
2n Soviet-Bloc Plans and CapaY `i_li$;ies
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ACQUIRED
la Joint Russo-Polish plans for the defense of the Baltic coast have involved
the complete overhauling of the airport at Peenem:Lde (a Three
thousand Russian and Polish officers and non-coms are now training there,
with their families quartered. at Ka.fishagen A new type of guided
missile is being experimented wt :.: i bra specialists$ and is reported
to have produced astonishing re. i.., is
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2. The, installations on Rugen Isl.an d are bean rushed to complet7 onwi th 25? ix
batteries at ten-kilometer intervval Trawler fleets, allegedly
intended for thport of troops and munitions, are under construc- 25X1 X
tion at Wolgast
3. Vie Soviet tactics at present are to force the United States into a long;
war of attrition in China. After five ;,rears of such a war the Russians
25X1 X F= that the United States will be at the mercy of the Soviet Union
P~ U Poland now has 89(1,000 fully trained troops - The USSR, together 25X1 X
with Poland and the other satellites., can immediately call up four
million trained, well equipped soldiers M. Source remarks in this 25X1 X
connection that the West has a total of only 20-30 untrained, poorly
equipped divisions.
25X1 A Comment: Lither this f ?.grure includes all reserves trained
since the war? or it is grossly exaggerated.
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