REPORTED MONGOL UNREST ON THE BURYAT-MONGOL AUTONOMOUS S S.S.R. FRONTIER.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000700060002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Country: USSR
Subject: Reported Mongol Unrest on the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous S.S.R. Frontier.
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February-March 53
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1. "Considerable unrest caused by attacks of armed bands coming from Mongolia took
place in February and the beginning of March 1953 in the frontier belt of the Buryat-
Mongol Autonomous S.S.R.
2. "At the beginning of February several armed bands of Mongols crossed the frontier
in the area of Chikoy and Irkut L'IrkutskTf. They attacked a Frontier Guard post
of 20 END men, wiping it out completely. In mid-February reinforced detachments of
the MVD Frontier Guards were constantly engaged in skirmishes with the raiders.
The bands are said to have been composed of deserters from the army of the Mongolian
National epublic. They were reinforced by a steady flow of inmates of ITL (Correct-
ive Labor) camps, who were fleeing from quarries and graphite mines in the Tuva
Autonomous Oblast, on the Mongolian border.
3. "At the beginning of March a band of about 300 Mongols operated in the area of
Chikoy, near the road leading from Ulan-Ude to Ulan-Bator (in Mongolia), and also a-
long the Orkhon River. The band attacked a large road-building base, pilfered the
food store, took all the arms and ammunition and killed the MND guards in a skirmish.
During the skirmish an inspecting officer of the END, (fnu) Tsizinov was also killed.
He had been sent from Ulan-Ude to supervise the resistance against the'insurgent
bands,'. The band took off with them about 200 Soviet prisoners who had been working.
at the base.
4. "To counteract tht anti-Soviet feelings which began to manifest themselves over
these incidents special teams of agitators from the Prop-Agit Department at Ulan-Ude
were under under the protection of END detachments to the troubled areas. One such
team was seized band band in the beginning of March. Its whole equipment, including
a radio transmitting station)was captured. This station is now operating from some
clandestine point. It broadcasts anti-Soviet propaganda programs. The station has
offered a sum of 50,000 rubles as reward for the head of the chief of the Prop-Agit
Dept. (fnu) Azgl,beko yllem it calls a 'traitor to m019,3.Alopiest.0
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