INFORMATION ON SOVIET MILITARY STRENGTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100070017-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: July 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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s) Thy Uuib~3 80a4~s mwb b? ar~par~d !ors 1igh0~ia~ at0aok by
bhp 6ovi~b Aixioro~ ad bhp mo~~ modern brp? aad a ~ubsRrin~ ?b~aok.
help o! a well arganieed rifbh Oolmm~ and Iaberaabional 8rigader arl11
and bhp roaroh of the 8ovi~b Army to W~~b~ra'~t~rop~ oan b~ ~p~ati~d~
o) Thy Qhta~~e aid Aroy wd iii l~s~s parbi~aa uaiti~ with bhs
b) i'olloreSr-g the a0baok oa Ohs Gnit~Q 81~sb~s~aa a0baok on lewd
The 8ovieb 81ibe abbaok may have labal ooaregaenaer ~'ar tie
oo~bry ~V~) ,
d) The 8egalar Soviet Army will lat~noh a rim~ltaneoar atbaok oa
ebrike ab iaio-Oht~a and Iadia~
Tarkey~ Afghanirtan~ and Perria~
9aeden~ gland and ltorway m~ be heavily bombed and readered
helplerr by the Soviet ~Airloroe and ,~bmariner~
Probable Bbren~~h o! the ~ v ~a_the I'ro
Trained Military Pereonnel
Modern Military Airaralt
Modern submariner
Combat aivirione
Armored Divirionr
Artillery Divirion~
Zarge naval Yer~relr
200
l00
80
5oa
10,000,000
X0,000
2.000
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Qa~bat Airare~b
Semi-brained Peopie
Armored and Artillery Divieione
~i4iriona
~hipr
? ~ OQO
zoo
AotivitY of the ~ntern~,?~ddeo Behind The Linea
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~acteneive sabotage, iatr~kee, divereian, dnd attaoke
garrieone oan be ezpeated,
~nternation.l 8ri~de
l) ttaiy
2) ~'ranoe
3) Germany
~) Bpain
5) India,
6) Indo-China
?) Afrioa
eJ Jawieh.Arab Brigade
9) North and South America
Total
loo, o00
100,000
200,000
100,000
200,000
500,000
100,000
50, ado
300,000
~, 6~0, ooa
Thia is the probable strength of the Bolshevik Oolt~mn operating
behind the linear
R~Pc~T NO ~
to 1940, the USSR Government completed an ~~artifiaial lake~~ on the
Ural River and started to build a new lake on the Ufa River with a
powerful military aeape~ In 1941,"the UB~ already at~-rted to build
tunnels, mountain aavea, railroads, and vehicular roads uair~ milli ons
of slave labor, Sinoe that time the Ufa Region beoame a prohibited
area to USSR, citisena, and eapeciaZly to foreigners, A trip to the Ufa
Region had to be approvdd by the NR'G'~~ AlZ factory equipment wa~a
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evacuated From the hioaoow area end the ~oaetr Aarin under guard and
brought to V~'a~ Prisoners told verioue etorier about V!'a and itr
;~, enviroae~ Borne raid that great underground airlielde were being built
thAre, ~1d otherr that underground rheltere i'or U98R government and
the largest Plante in the world for the production of the mort modern
Gregorow, a Soviet railroad man, told me that the i'amoue Moaoow `
Lenin Laboratories had been moved to Vfa~ I raw large rail transports
oi' i'aotory equipment at the Ufa Railroad Btation~ There is no doubt
that V~'a is one of the ~~Atomgrad~~ areas produoia8 the atomic bomb
It ie situated in the quadrangle oi' the largest Soviet ~nduetrial poten-
bial- Bverdlovak, Magnitogorsk, R~unetsk, ~uybyaheT, Perm and No4o-
sibirek
game details well mown To Me
8ver~lovsk has ~
Three iron and steel foundries.
Plante producing aircraft, h3nvy ~tille;~y, hcnly !;w~;Q"mot milit;~y
vehicles, locomotives, metallurgical Plante, chemical Plante, labora-
tories, baoteriologioal laboratoriee.
Seavy Iron and steel foundries, coke Plante, chemical plants,
laboratoriee~ plants producing ants-aircraft and armor piercing guns,
plants producing submarine parts, plants producing various Type bombs,
artillery pro~eotiles, poison gas, and bacteriological laboratoriee~
viol, map
R~a~T ~o z
There ire no doubt that the Ta~nnu Tuna Republic ira the second Soviet
~~Atamgrad~~ .
to 19~z, the USSR was already preparing the Tannu Tuva area for
the use of the heavy war induetry~
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to 1942 at the Irkutsk railway atation~ Y uotioed aooree o;~
trap?rta under d going in the direotiou of Soviet boo olia~
I rooeived the following apeaifio information tk~at the transports
carried=
la bismantlea parts of #,~ faatary and laboratory a ui merit
9~ p t
2) tho tarpaulin oovering Of several transports which were aare-
f~ly guarded by the NI~vD were marked U~II~
3) all transports were on the way to Tannu-Tuvaf
4y the V9S2 was transferring thousands of the natives to Siberia
aria Kamakhatant and
5) a politioal prieoner~ who was working on the Tannu Tuva border
r
told. me that the NKVD sent all politiaaS prisoners to Raraaha~tka and
only ordinary prieonerr+ whooe term did nat exaoed three years, ware
left in the area
.D~ta Oa th T u 'hrya Aelsublie
Tenn+a 1"ava ;~ 1oua~~~u ~a the oorder of southern ~9lberia and ~ton,golia~
It ie an immense valley hemmed in by high mountains with a few passes.
In case of neoeesity it can be self-~suffioient einoe the climate perretts
the oultivation of various grains and the breeding of cattle. The
valley ie well supplied with water sufficient for power purpoaee~ In
the Taanu Tuva mountains there are several natural caves a roils long
and rich deposits of metal eepeoially manganese ore and high grade ooa1.
Nezt to Tannu Tuva is the Irkutrk Oblast abounding in rioh mineral
depoeite~
There are rich deposits of high grade coal and roioa in the Tulun Axea~
In the Cheremoshna area there are rich petroleum deposits, Tannu Tuva
is aarefu~.ly guaacded by special oaunterespionage divisions of the 1yYa
and Mf~~,
aESTAicrEo
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