MILITARY UNITS IN POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000230009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Military Units in Poland
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In the barracks install^tion is an infantry regiment with
4. An infantry division headquarters is located near Lake Krzywe in Olsztvn.(3)
3. At Kaniowo near Biedrusko is an armored regiment and an Air Force summer training
camp. A motorized infantry brigade is located at Biedrusko (P53/X27). An
infantry regiment is located at Pruszkow neer Warsaw. An independent infantry
battalion is located at Swinoujscie. The 11th Infantry Regiment is located at
Gorzow. (2) In Lublin is an infantry cadet school, an independent signal battalion
and a radio-telegraphers' school. An inform a.tion cadet school is located at 36
Grojecka Street in Warsaw. 50X1-HUM
former German wooden huts in the 7ascianki district about five kilometers from
Dojlidy (S54/G48). (1)
The 6th Tank Regiment is quartered in former German barracks in Vogsdorf about
five kilometers from Opole. The barracks installation consists of four rows of
three three-story brick buildings. Behind the buildings are brick garages housing
T-34 tanks and self-propelled guns believed to be larger than 105 rpm in caliber.
1. An infantry battalion has been billeted since the and of World War II in twenty
an artillery cadet school. A light artillery regiment, which was trans-
R54/A27). A motorized infantry regiment was transferred in the sp^ring of 1951 from
Olsztyn to Wroclaw.. where it is quartered in the suburb of Lesnica. 50X1-HUM
5. In a garrison between Zary and Zegan there are between eight and ten thousand
Polish troops constituting an infantry division headquarters, an infantry regiment,
two motorized infantry regiments and a medium tank regiment. '(4) A light artillery
regiment is located in barracks in a forest about four kilometers south of Grrwolin
(R52/145). Troops are soon expected to fill the newly reconditioned barracks on
the Drweca River at Brodnica (Q54/b90).
6. A K.13'r (Corps of Internal Security) regiment of about 1,500 men is located in Gora
Kalwaria (R52/L16). A KSW battalion is stationed in ialbrzyeh. New barracks are
being built in Katowice for the KBW about 300 m from the barracks at present
occupied by a IBU regiment. This regiment has garrisons in Rybnik, Zorys
Racibors, 7abrze and Bytom. There is a UB (Security Police) training center in
Katowice at the corner of Kilinskiego and Poniatowskiego Streets.
7. The. MOP (Border Guard Corps) batty on quartered near the fishing harbor in
erred from Olsztyn in 1950, is reported to be stationed in 14ragowo (Sensburg -
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1fiedzyzcroje (Misdroy - 054/L41
I3.edzyzaroje and Wiselka (sic).
mans Lnwird posts in Wolin, Dablin (sic),
(1) I ~ Gonment,: This may be a battalion of the 65th Infantry Regiment 50X1 -HUM
3baIystok. 50X1-HUM
(2) Comment: The 11th Infantry Regiment was hold in Kalisz as of March
1951.
(3) [Comment: The 15th Infantry Division is held in Olsztyn, 50X1-HUM
(l;) Cormient: The 11th Infantry Division and its components are held in
Zary and 2~egan. 50X1-HUM
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