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TO s Assistar+. ni....o.,n,.'rn,. Anani.71 . OperAtiWiA DATE: 6 July 50Atts =. =1,04.--

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=MEM Colonel ICUSHALI I . Alma?) .E.s.n: , ,. k!'.._

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1. Attached hereto de . enclolure A.are the austere to the questionscontained in your namo . dated 22 June 1950, same subject.

. 2. Colonel /ERMA, is presently infant:York City and *a avalab.le .'..for further Interrogation.

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1. Through di cm ofMicoln Abiii=tc itili, with ••••ne;3„. 6. .; 4/

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touchColonel (Gens0,1),,,rancisalLiNslinl (Inschal)p a•Ifrelorassian of 55 years ni•age who since World. War Ilohas been living in,lfan.i.ch, Germany.

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i, ••• ,•"" Saltis (Zoltist) of 'CIO, Regensburg; tbrongh two okrainian. laternediardea by . ..... ' •' .-. the name*: of tbritin and Ne-._40,7, tind-t°12.2. k•, `.----7---- -7!' tJA•RiC 7'64 IC 441'" ' '_ ....--. . , , ... .,, . . • .

'V . 3. In May 1948, Kushal dispatched two young Byelorussian• patriots' to • ' 'a\ 7 a

thei:r homeland to establish contact with local ;artisan . groups and • t.b#46 :-. ...:•;',1 '"."'• 1-" t• „ back a member of the partisan organization. This mission . waainitiataci .tivith , ,., . • ■3° • tha knowledge of GIG to establish' continned liaison between; the :partizans. OF?, .. : c,' •:'•'• •: . .

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27 years of age. He was educated in a DP gymnasium for Byalo ° ! .russians at MAchelsdorf near Begacsburg. .

• . it - .••, ( : .,I_H,:_1.. • .. c . , who Iliad the cover-name of 'zvtiri tor pur-piedve of his mission. He is about 27 and. was born -and raised inear Baranovicze.

• 5. !ionitch and Xananovitch did not .1clow each other. After accepting •the undertaking of this mission, both left as Polish repatriates and wereient first of all to the Repatriation Camp at Lauf, near Nuernberg. Limited.financial aid. was extended. to them by Bushel.

6. Nothing was heard. from Kananovitch until March 1950, at which time •insbal received. a letter from him, postmarked Gdansk (Danzig). In this letterKananovitch stated that he was returning "home s . inasmuch as Hananovitchhas not returned. to Munich, Bushel assumes he has gone to Byelorussia forcontinuance of his mission.

7. Monitch returned. to Western Germany in December 1949 and. gave anaccount of his trip to Husbal, of which the following 111 'a resume:

Mon.itch was taken from Lite to a Polish repatriation camp at Cziedzice..•

. (Phonetic). At this camp he was screened by the Polish Secret Police. During• this screening he was photographed and fingerprinted., and afterwards released.

-with a certificate giving him legal status as a repatriateIn this camp andpreviously, Montt& declared he bad been born in Bialystok and, was going there

• to look for his mother.

Monitch spent only a few days in Bialystok as he waaafraid that local• police authorities would demand thatIr register.

ITpon.. leaving Bialystok, he went to Sismiatice (phjetio) near the•

B elornselan (USSR) border and at this place he presented. himself to an Orthodox

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-priest. ffew *flitch contacted thiairiest was not recalledNACushal4,7 The-. date 'at'thiatime was August 1948. After a few dam the eat-4orned Hen,

itch over . taa. peasant named Kananchuk who, although not a partidaa, had enn-.taci irithithapartisans. • took Nenitch to his house anti . tbet night7brondit.inan active parti

•.... ;.• -Benitdh and the partisan left Kananchuk's house under cover of dark,• noSaank'c rossed the Polish,Seviet frontier. It took the two men about two

hours. te dross the frontier using the most difficult terrain as their path..-.' About 10 kilometers east of the frontier, Abnitch was blindfolded by his com-

PaniOnand led to an underground shack in a deep forest. At this shack, Nen-., .1hOh• vas interrogated. 'Air 'a lengthy period, of time. He said he bad. been sent

by toShal to meet 0en_e. ,J,LAft nominal military leader of the •Byelornseion..• ' partisans. ,Be vas - fordette'Vellel be knew about Xiehal and his wife to es—,

.tablish his bona fides. The min who was interrogating Nonitch would ask a •qusetión, leave, and thqg return giving the impression that he was in radio

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.After the conversation was over, ?batch was blindfolded, led out ofthe foreSt and taken back across the border to Kananchnles house, Shore he ' was told to waiA, for further developments.-

g•While staying with Ka*Avtritior, Nonitnh got a job on the railroad and ..

went via rail to Nowogrodek as a stowaway. The route followed was the railroadfran:Sialystek to Barsnovice, thence north to Movoitania and on to Ebwogrodek.He went from Nowogrodek to Lubeha (Luben), hie -birthplace. At Iubcha hawed,fed-ty old neighbors of his to the partisan group of,Nnliboki in the forest ofNieleboaskayaPtstcha. :.

_ The chief of the partisans of this area went undei the name of Me4aglgE.however, Match was met by a Dr. , Hardanovic, who had been a medicalbfficer

. under Kasha'. He also met a Major Dub, itio was an ex-officer under Inshal and.,gained the complete confidencebflOth these men. At various times Nonitdh wasPromised a meeting with Vitoushka, but this never materialized.

'- Dion hid departure from this group, Nonitch was-told that he was to

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-- be accompanied badk to Germaoy by-a trustei partisan company commander named ,

'',.''' Nej _,- In all, Nonitch had spent about five to six months on USSR

-,.':: 'The two cmin made the trip to Poland on lbot, bypaising all main roads

andbommunicition points. Alter reaching Polish territory, they-took:a trainandlotas far an thanewLy-acguirei western Polish territory. At,s. railroad.

• station, Kalka vas arrested by the Polish police, apparentlystter having been'recognized by former medbers of the Artiya Kralove who had been transterredto the Polieh police. There is no prther record of Ulla. Nonitch escapedand at this point destroyed a letter and a photograph which the partisans had

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, Shortly after Zalkal s arrest aid in another town Nonitch, himself, I..wes arrested as a vagrant and given a tar months' prison term. After serving.

N.s !; . 'his sentence, he was sent to work at e �nlkhos near the Polish-German border.- ';',' ' The head of this kolkhon vas a notorious black marketeer who enlisted the ' '

derVices of Monitchba one'of his sales egents. Through-the . medimaof this. ' , .kolkhoz chiet,-Nonitch was able twerosathe Polish-German border and. get to , .';the VS sector of Berlin in DeceMber 1944"...1.

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. • • • IS Ce6R1314.. L • •Monitch reported taCIO•in Berlin and was put in a r e gaup.

Be was taken out of this camp by a US Colonel named Schtcherbie Cherbingand upoxehis insistence to see Bushel, Zvoritchnk came to see him. Later .Zvoritchak end DI authorities took:Mbnitch to Munich, where hp still resides..

•Monitchprovided tashal with satisfactory evidence that he had been

..ineoland, in a Polish prison and workin4 in a kolkhoz. Be else was.ableto pink out and name several people that Bushel kaew,wire.definitelynembersof partisan groups in Byelornseia from photographs in Rhahalls possession.

'4 • Insha/ is 100% satisfied that /ignite:4 met the partisans and sta.*, with them..,. 8. Based upon. Manitchis account, Bushel has consluded that the Byeio-

..7*OaLin partisans under Vitenhkals 'command are split into the following maine evefu.Pbic SrehPa:

A. The Titebsk group, with the strongest concentration near Lepel, '..is under the. direct personal command of ,gja.1„,7j4g14:23„., •

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a. B. The Pelagian Marsh group north of Pinsk is led hyena mg,(a ps ; a former 1131,a1latalpe=, personally:known .to Gdh recognized by Monitch and may, in feet, be':.identical with uSakba,P)

. • -. The Nailloki group north of Novo Gredek is under the command of

one Malanka. Presumably, thelblesian Marsh and Nalihoki groupsare in tench with Vitushka•threugh radio communication.

. o. Bach of the three partisan groups mentioned above hasl'iso mainglaggotg; The sTS (Special Information Service) is the intelligence amidthe partisan groups. The Choral. rot (Block Cat) is the action unit.shargisiwith-paramilitary tasks, including sabotage.

. Monitch'passed on to !Paha the partisans': message, accoiCing to, ..%,

which thei are '*11 supplied with German and Soviet weapons and aim have 1.sufficient ammunition. for the forseeable future. Their main shortages'occar.in the field of medical supplies, and there is no hope Of obtaining enough

e. even for their most urgent needs, as the Soviets themselves are desperately, . short of medical supplies, at least in the BUR. (Bandages maybe purchased, for 4i high as 500 rubles each.) . -

.. , ., .io; • . The partisans have ten radio sets in their possession. •Monitch -

no :details on this important matter and apparently failed to inquire .further.

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9.. In 1948, the partisans planned a major scheme in the area of Baranovioge.?.-Theyetteekai the airport near Baranovicze in an attempt to steal Several-planes

- l'.' with which to vend emissaries to Western Bums. The Soviets were Prepared for. • this attack and. inflicted. serious losses upon the partisans; Vitushka was 'wounded-

■:...... • in the arm. Although the partisans had enlisted the cooperation of several'. Soviet officers for their scheme, it was betrayed to faithful Soviet authorities,

apparently by members of the former .Araiya Naiota. (Shen Poland had. &JP,- 2t.. . • ,territory.east of the Curzon Line to theUSSR,'about 2,500 members of the AN

, 1 . 'selves. ldrussianparti an command; some security problens have arisen •under elected to remain on USSR territory and to subordinate them-

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personnel in Poland vith the new regbne.)

• 'Since the debacle at Baranovicze, the Byelorussian partisans haveattempted to tighten their security and to.reorgenise in smaller cells. BOmajor military actions have been undertaken since that time, and the Partisans ..

' have been preoccupied with the training of cadres.

10. Kushal believes that the partisan movement in Byelorussia has a con,sideiable potential both for immediate intelligence purposes and for militarypurposes in , case of an Rest-Vest conflict because Byelorusala lies . astride themain oupply s route 'for Soviet troops in the West. Re is convinced that contactwith them vould 'be of great importance for the US. L Auggests that Monitchand additional personnel shonldbe carefaby briefed and dispatched to theUSE. , One of the shOrt-range purposes of such a mission would be the establish- -nient of radio communication with the partisans, tor Vhich they are natr+villyeager•and perhaps even prepared. In furtherance of long-range plans, he,pro-poses to enlist np to vie hsmdrial :young Byelorussian patriots from anong thegroUps eLrpporting4hramtchile to be sant to the BSSR in ttie of wa4a1Uadresboth'for intelligence and paramilitary B orrasca . Tor any such 'pleas, closeliras= between AbramtchiR and himself end the proper US authorities is a :

c. • .prereqpisite as the operation should. le completely under US direction; training ,ist . moArn partisan varier°, in intelligence methods, etc. would have to be ea,tended:to personnel charge/with these tasks. The oontinental US affords tUonly logical security protection for suth a proaam, in Bushel's opinion. Die.believe that this vie* is subject tecorreotioud

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• 11. The above information is based Upon a fairly intensive'interrhat/on.during which spontaneous observations on the part of TusRal were augmentedthrough repeated qnsstioning. On the mission of Monitch, in particular, certathdetails are uot now eve/late ternshal and would peesumellYhave to be obtained.indirectLy.. Kasha, howeverodli is available for additiOnal interrogation,„

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