Annex A to Intelligence Estimate No 142

G2, 5ID(M)

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120545 Jun 2000

References: Per para 1, Intel Est 142

1. Three major groupings of Warsaw Pact forces have been identified in Poland. These are, from north to south, Baltic Front, 1st Western Front, and 2nd Western Front. Together with Central Front in Czechoslovakia, these three fronts comprise the Western Strategic Direction (Western T.V.D.) of the Warsaw Pact, the headquarters of which is believed to be located in Lublin.
2. The recent offensive of German 3rd Army has caused considerable losses in the Baltic Front grouping and thus the strengths listed can no longer be considered accurate.
3. While the front has been quiet in the areas of 1st and 2nd Western Front, it is likely that some reserve formations have been detached from these groupings and have been shifted north to deal with the German 3rd Army breakthrough. Fuel shortages are likely to prevent the rapid completion of this redeployment.
4. The following abbreviations are used in this annex:
TD: Tank Division
GTD: Guards Tank Division
MRD: Motorized Rifle Division
GMRD: Guards Motorized Rifle Division
MarDiv: Marine Division
BGB: Border Guards Brigade
Unit identifications followed by (C) indicate units which are assessed as having been converted entirely to horsed cavalry.

NORTHERN POLAND Baltic Front HQ: Malbork 1st Polish Army, HQ: Gdynia 2nd MRD(C) (500 men): Wicko 3rd MRD(C) (2,000 men): Lębork 9th MRD (3,000 men, 10 tanks): Kościerzyna 12th MRD(C) (2,000 men): Starogard 19th MRD(C) (500 men): Gdynia 3 BGB (500 men): Dąbrówka 2nd Polish Army, HQ: Piła 1st MRD (4,000 men, 20 tanks): Piła 7th MarDiv (500 men): Czarnków 13th MRD(C) (1,000 men): Jastrowie 4th BGB(C) (400 men): Chodzież 5th BGB (500 men): Wronki

WEST CENTRAL POLAND 1st Western Front, HQ: Poznań 1st Soviet Guards Tank Army, HQ: Gorzów Wielkopolski 9th GTD (4,000 men, 25 tanks): Swiecko 11th GTD (500 men, 5 tanks): Sulechow 25th TD (1,000 men, 5 tanks): Swiebodzin 1st TD (3,000 men, 10 tanks): Rzepin 1st Polish Tank Army, HQ: Poznań 5th TD (4,000 men, 35 tanks): Lwówek 10th TD (2,000 men, 25 tanks): Stęszew 17th MRD(C) (3,000 men): Śmigiel 8th BGB (500 men): Poznań 7th BGB (1,000 men): Kórnik 8th Soviet Guards Army HQ: Görlitz, Germany 131st MRD (2,000 men, 15 tanks): Skwierzyna 20th GMRD(C) (1,000 men): Międzyrzecz 39th GMRD (3,000 men, 25 tanks): Kostrzyn

SOUTHWEST POLAND 2nd Western Front HQ: Legnica 2nd Soviet Guards Army, HQ: Görlitz, Germany 94th GMRD(C) (500 men): Świebodzin 21st GMRD (1,000 men, 5 tanks): Bautzen, Germany 103rd MRD (4,000 men, 30 tanks): Cottbus, Germany 117th MRD(C) (100 men): Görlitz, Germany 157th MRD (1,000 men, 5 tanks): Hoyerswerda, Germany 20th Soviet Guards Army, HQ: Gubin 132nd MRD(C) (3,000 men): Peitz, Germany 12th GMRD (4,000 men, 30 tanks): Gubin 3rd Soviet Shock Army, HQ: Legnica 12th GTD (2,000 men, 20 tanks): Legnica 129th MRD (3,000 men, 5 tanks): Jelenia Góra 127th MRD(C) (2,000 men): Głogów Interior Forces Polish 6th BGB (500 men): Łódź Polish 11th BGB(C) (500 men): Lublin

OTHER ARMED COMBATANT FORCES:

Polish 14th MRD: Last reported strength 2,000 men and 5 operational tanks. Commanding officer (Colonel Julian Filipowicz) is believed to have refused orders to join forces moving against the allied concentration on the Baltic coast and to have set up a semi-independent region in the vicinity of Gliwice. Agents attempting to open relations with him have not returned and he must be assumed to be hostile to all parties to the war.
Polish 1st Free Legion (formerly 1st Border Guard Brigade): Last reported strength 600 men. Actively supports the Polish Government in exile and has on occasion cooperated with DIA intelligence operations. Commanded by a former sergeant (S. I. Mastelarz). Radio contact recently lost with this unit. Believed to be operating in the area between Poznań and Głogów.
Polish 2nd Free Legion (formerly 10th Border Guard Brigade): Last reported strength 200 men. Commanded by Major M. K. Sikorski. Actively supports the Polish Government in exile and has engaged in extensive guerrilla attacks against Soviet troop convoys. Believed now to be operating in the area between Chojnice and Malbork.
Polish 8th Motorized Division: Last reported strength 2,000 men. Previously served as garrison of the city of Kraków. When Kraków declared itself a free city, the division apparently did not leave the city and is presumed to form the cadre of the city's defensive force, which the former division commander, Major General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko, may now be commanding.
Soviet 10th Guards Tank Division: Last reported strength 1,000 men and 6 operational tanks. Unit has nominally defected, but current attitude of unit and exact nature of command structure not known. There have been reports of contacts between senior officers of the unit and the CIA. Believed to be in the vicinity of Warsaw.
Soviet 6th Guards Motorized Rifle Division: Last reported strength of 2,000 men and 10 operational tanks. Commanding officer Colonel Ya. N. Chekanov. An outstanding combat unit, three months ago the unit withdrew from the lines in the area between Frankurt and Görlitz, apparently without orders, and has not answered numerous radio communications from Warsaw Pact command. Current location and disposition unknown.
Soviet 9th Tank Division: Last reported strength of 2,000 men. Unit mutinied in September of 1999 and later disintegrated into smaller bands of armed marauders, now believed to infest the area between Łódź and Częstochowa.
Soviet 207th Motorized Rifle Division: Last reported strength 600 men. Attached to Polish 1st Army but sustained serious losses in the attacks by German 3rd Army. Believed to have disintegrated and bands of deserters may now infest the area between Piła and Bydgoszcz, the last reported position of the division.

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