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VERY URGENT!
At a meeting with the General Staff
of the USSR Armed Forces, in accordance with orders from Gen. Jaruzelski's
Defense Ministry, Gen. Hupalowski and Col. Puchala endorsed a plan to
admit into Poland (under the pretext of maneuvers) the Soviet Army (SA),
the National People's Army of the GDR (NVA), and the Czechoslovak People's
Army (CLA). Documents and reproduced portions of the plans [for joint
intervention] were presented to show that the following forces are to be
sent into Poland: three armies comprising 15 SA divisions, one army
comprising two CLA divisions, and the staff of one army and one division
from the NVA. In total, the intervening group initially will consist of 18
divisions.
(A state of readiness to cross the
Polish borders was set for 8 December.) At present, representatives from
the "fraternal armies," dressed in civilian clothing, are
undertaking reconnaissance of invasion routes as well as the distances and
terrain for future operations. The scenario of operations for the
intervening armies envisages a regrouping of armies to all major Polish
Army bases
to conduct maneuvers with live
ammunition. Then, depending on how things develop, all major Polish
cities, especially industrial cities, are to be sealed off.
According to the plan of the USSR
Armed Forces According to the plan of the USSR Armed Forces General Staff,
the Polish Army will remain within its permanent units while its
"allies" are regrouping on Polish territory. The only exceptions
will be supervisory officers and military traffic control units, which
will ensure a collision-free regrouping of the SA, CLA, and NVA armies
from the border to the territories of future operations. Four Polish
divisions (the 5th and 2nd Tank Divisions and the 4th and 12th Mechanized
Divisions) will be called into operation at a later point.
Finally, I very much regret to say
that although everyone who has seen the plans (a very restricted group of
people) is very depressed and crestfallen, no one is even contemplating
putting up active resistance against the Warsaw Pact action.
There are even those
(Jasinski,
Puchala) who say that the very presence of such enormous military forces
on the territory of Poland may calm the nation.
JACK STRONG
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