(ESTIMATED DATE) SOVIET LABOR CAMPS ON SAKHALIN ISLAND

Created: 3/1/1983

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION

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TEXT: 1. AS OFNMATES OF SOVIET CRIMINAL. LABOR CAMPS ON SAKHALIN ISLAND HERE WORKING ALONG WITH CIVILIANS ON FIELD EXPEDITIONS HMICH HERE GEODETICAL SURVEYS FOR CARTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES. ONE SUCH PROJECT, REFERREO TO AS "EXPEDITION- HAS UNOCR the OIRECTION OF THE MAIN ADMINISTRATION OF GEOOEST AND CARTOGRAPHY, USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS IGUGKI. fm/kmW COMMENT: IT HAS SOURCE'S UNDERSTANDING THAT THEREMlNAL CAMPS ONLY ON SAKHALIN, WITH NO SPECIAL FACILITIES FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS. THE LATTER MERE INTEGRATED INTO CRIMINAL CAMPS MITH THE RATIONALE THAT COEXISTENCE MITH THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT WOULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL, IF NOT PHYSI 2, OREAN DEPORT. NORTH

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TRADE BUSINTWS ANO OWNED AUTOMOBILES. TO MANY OF THE SOVIETS WHO OFTEN HERE IN DRUNKENNESS.

3. THEREARGE CRIMINAL ELEMENT AMONG THEANO THOSE CONVICTED OF VARIOUS OFFENSES HERE PLACEOCAMPS DISTINCT FROM THE SOVIET CAMPS. ONE CAMPWHAT HAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MORE DANGEROUS GROUPHAS LOCATED AT THE PORT CITY OF PORONAYSK. WAS LOCATEOMALL ISLAND (UNSPECIFIED! SEPARATEO BYAREA FROM THE ISLAND PROPER. ALMOST EVERT MONTHATTEMPTED ESCAPES FROM THOSE CAMPS, HHICH HEREIN THE LOCAL MEDIA. FROM JUNE THROUGH OCTOBERTHERE HERE REPORTS OFTTEMPTED ESCAPES BY SOURCE OBSERVED NO NORTH

KOREANd TO THE FIELD EXPEDITION. FROM HIS PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ANO DISCUSSIONS HITH LOCAL SOVIET RESIDENTS. SOURCE ASCERTAINED THAT THEREOOD DEAL OF ANTAGONISM ON THE PART OF THE SOVIET MILITARY WHO GUARDED THE NORTH KOREAN CAMPS AND, ESULT. IT HAS BELIEVED THAT THOSE PRISONERS HERE SUBJECT TO HARSH TREATrtNT. I

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