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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nIII-3\ntered throughout the three Laender and later\nviet Zone. The central German police agency\nin the Bremen Enclave.\nis the German Administration of the Interior,\nWestern Allied forces in Germany are not\nwhich has the following executive organs:\nunder a unified command. As of 1 September\na. The paramilitary German police, com-\n1949, the US had 80,000 Army personnel sta-\nposed of the Border Police and the Bereit-\ntioned in Germany as the Army of Occupa-\nschaften or Kasernierte (barracked) Police.\ntion. In addition, a German police force of\nArmy Intelligence Division estimates of 1 Sep-\n41,700 men has been formed and armed under\ntember 1949 place the strength of the Border\nUS supervision. Occupation ground forces\nPolice at 12,000 and the Bereitschaften at\nin the UK Zone numbered 78,400, of which\n15,000. Reports that the paramilitary police\n21,400 were Belgian, Danish, and Norwegian.\nare now being trained and equipped with\nThe British also maintain a German police\nheavy weapons, including mortars, artillery,\nforce of 41,930 men. In the French Zone,\nand armored vehicles have increased rapidly\nthere were 48,000 ground troops and a French\nsince August 1949, but are as yet not definitely\nGendarmerie of 54 men. German police in\nconfirmed.\nthe French Zone total 7,490.\nb. Although the present ratio of the Ord-\nUS Air Force combat strength is composed\nnungspolizei (regular police) to the popula-\nessentially of three F-80 jet fighter squadrons,\ntion is not known, total German police\nthree F-47 conventional fighter squadrons,\nstrength, including the paramilitary police\nand a small number of light bombers, recon-\nand the political/criminal police, is estimated\nnaissance, and other special purpose aircraft.\nat 100,000 as of 1 September 1949. In rela-\nIn the UK Zone, the Royal Air Force had as\ntion to the German population of the Soviet\nof 15 September 1949 three Vampire jet\nZone, the ratio is about 1:178. The Soviet\nfighter squadrons, two conventional fighter\nZone police are drawn for the most part from\nsquadrons, one reconnaissance squadron, and\nfour light bomber squadrons. On the same\nprisoners-of-war held within the USSR and\ndate, the French in their zone maintained two\nthe graduates of the Antifa schools. The\nF-47 conventional fighter squadrons, one of\nlong-term reliability of such personnel to the\nwhich, presently in transitional training, is\nUSSR is questionable, despite the intensive\nexpected to return to Germany equipped with\nCommunist indoctrination they have received.\njet fighters, and two reconnaissance squad-\nKey positions in the Soviet Zone police are\nrons.\nheld by veteran German Communists.\nThe Soviet forces represent the largest and\nFormer German officer and enlisted person-\nmost formidable force in Germany and are\nnel held captive in the USSR have been sub-\nunder unified command. As of 1 September\njected to political indoctrination, placed in\n1949, they consisted of four rifle, eight tank,\nlabor battalions, given Soviet training for ad-\nand ten mechanized divisions, a total of\nministrative posts and police work, and in\n355,000 army and SMA troops, in addition to\nsome instances organized into combat police\nwhich there were 20,000 political police (MVD\ntroops) and 3,000 naval troops. The Soviet\nunits. While such groups do not constitute\nAir Force in Germany, represented chiefly by\nan army in the accepted sense of the term,\nthe 16th Air Army, was estimated on 15 Sep-\nthey might be valuable in a paramilitary ca-\ntember 1949 at 30,000 men and 1,300 to 1,400\npacity if no conflict with German loyalty were\naircraft, including 800 conventional fighters,\ninvolved. The USSR has retained a large\n400 to 500 light and attack bombers, and 60\nnumber of German prisoners chiefly for their\nto 70 reconnaissance aircraft. The total of\nlabor, which they perform over wide areas of\nall Soviet troops is thus approximately 408,000\nthe USSR, and also to serve in whatever re-\nmen.\ngime the USSR may eventually establish in\nBesides its own forces, the USSR is expand-\nGermany. The long-term fidelity of such per-\ning the German police organization of the So-\nsonnel to the USSR is doubtful.\nSECRET"
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