TROOPS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN BEUTHEN (BYTOM)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005000760006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION CONFIDEMIALA
COUNTRY.,. -oer REPORT
TOPIC 1116ops and Elitary Installations in Beuthen (t-t5)
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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PAGES 1 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
LDATE PREPARED 10 September 1954
1. Prior to the spring of 1954, the barracks installation on the northern
perimeter of Beuthen (Q 51/Y 58) quartered Polish infantrymen who wore
khaki uniforms with red service color. Units leaving the installation
carried no heavy weapons or other special equipment. Only very few
motor vehicles were observed in the area around the installation.1
2. In the spring of 1954, three
narrow sides fronted on the
the western perimeter
recent years. The
pit in the Beuthen area. They only had small arms.2 In
of 1954, military labor units were no longer employed at
pit, formerly Karsten Zentrum Grube, north of these bill
time, Polish convicts were quartered in the hutment near the pit.
3. Since about January 1954, a military office which was guarded by a
sentry had been in a large villa at the intersection of the north
side of Puzaskiego and the east side of S/owackiego in the city.
Officers entered and left the building, around which a number of
sedans were parked at all times.
Comment. A prey this installation
uar ered infantrymen.
2. (Comment. Previous reports only contained indications to these
new buildings.
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