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oAe NOe for Au t 1952-6 ALONG THE BALTIC SEA. Strategic movementSe A recent despatch to thés Vigest had already pointeca out the fact that the nussian-Swedish airplane incident hada much more than a purely accidental background. Soviets meant to protect important movements and installations - one of Russia's military In the meantime, extremely important informations have reached us, that throw a new light on what is going on in that heavily protected region that, until the end of the war, had been German's Eastern provinces and the fxmmxxkkxyxef Denzig.territory. On the present border line between Eastern Germany and Poland lies the Stettiner Haff, a well protected bay, the estuary of the Oder River on the Baltic Sea. With important port of S¥czecin (Stettin),it is at easy reach of #ihm all the Baltic ports: of Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Fánland and the Soviet Union. A key position from the point of view of both sea and inland water traffic, this area was granted to Poland by "temporary agreement" and included as important facbor in Soviet strategic planning. Under Russian direction, Poland started immediately after the war, important constructiormsin that part of the previous Province of Pommern, from where all German-speaking population was simul&aneous1) expelled. The projects, carried on under 4ussian supervision, by Polish and German experts, were the most important testing grounds . for guided missiles. Here, the famous V-3 were developed and tried out, In recent years, reports from Sweden had spoken of a strange light to be observed on the Baltic Sea. It was the result of these experimental explosions. For reasons that at present could not yet be entirely clarified, all testing grounds have now been re-organized and changede Our informan feel that, with their recent intensification, it might become too easy for observers in Sweden to conclude as to the details of Sw iet preparations. , During these last weeks then the testing grounds in Pommern were’ " entirely taken over by the Russians. they have Become now, with the Crimea and Northern Siberia, one of the great centers of atomic researcheSe : The installations for guided missiles were taken to Szczecin and from there, by inland water ways to Upole and further, by land, to tarnowskie Wery. This was a long and most delicateda transportati carried out with due preparation and only by the most select shipping and train personnele The new installations are now far inside Moscow controled land: in the southern part of Foland, not far from the Uzeché border and well protected by the wall of the Carpath Mountains. The other highly strategic point on the baltic Sea is the Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) area. This northern part of previous East-Prussia, was, after the war, taken over directly by the Sovie Union. 4 rich agricultural land, it has now become exclusively
