SOVIET MILITARY ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800148-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 148
• Publication Date: February 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Ware Iccupied by a Soviet mortar
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infantry th'_t came by rail to Hettstedt, and
ara tr_ nspcvter,' f rcr: chore by t_ ucks . The soldiers are armed only with rl= lc:s
)u_ing 1y5? the Sov.I t ii.Tfy ;Upply depot .it Frankfurt-an-der-Oder received
3,800 centre:?s or nug r fro h lla, Markrinstedt and Zeitz sugar factories.
In Nov 1y73 he N .hz?mictalwe,x Kothen delivered 817 tons of meal and other
foodstuffs to the depot, 3nd the packing factory at Helberstadt delivered
6,000 kg of canned ntea.t.
The t:^ucks wez-e noc cov?z?ad
t_ain hide ec aith ooloc :. 1eierq
c ; 27 ,V:?'r 53, going to' q._?ds Polcind.
4. JeAbout 400 Soviet ercops are stationed at the Hilbersdorf barracks, Chemnitz,
i3b the p_?es;cnt time. They equipped with antitank guns, including many
of about 100 mm cslihe-r. A field gun was observed of about 150 mat caliber with
short barrel and muzzle brakes. About 30 guns altogether area in the shelters
on the east side of the barracks; these are lighted at night. One of the four
buildings is occupied by Soviet military prisoners.
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The barracks in Plan:..zstraSse, Chemnitz, are occupied by Soviet infantry
and a. transport section.. The total strength is about 250 men. In addition,
seven self-propelled guns of fU 100 type have been stationed here since the
end of the autumn maneuvers. No activities of these guns are observed at
the present time. Exercises are held only with infantry arms in Kuchenwald
Park and-71h the Zessigwald.
6. About 20 wooden cases, painted blue, were unloaded from a Soviet truck in
Jagdscha.ukenstrasse, Cnemnitz, on 4 Dec 53. They are believed to have contained
oxygen equipment.
7. The Soviet units quartered in the former factory building at the Scharzenberg
(Erzgebirge) railway station received new guns at the end of Nov 1953. The old
76.2 mm short barreled antitank guns were taken away and replaced by 12 new guns
of about 85 mm caliber, with muzzle brakes. The gun. carriages have exceptionally
small wheels.
8. The telephone central of the Red Army in Leipzig is located in a villa in Richter-
strasse at the corder of Prellerstrasse.
9. The local Red Army commander in Zeltz is a. colonel of guards namedd.Maximov.
Re travels in a. car
formerly by armored, artillery and infantry troops, and a radio detachment.
10. A Soviet truck I with about 20 enlisted men travels back and forth
every morning and evening between the barracks in Wienerstrasse and the command
post at Zeppelins tras se 2.
11. were observed in Zeitz on 12 Dec 53:
12. Besides the barracks, the following Red Army objects are located in Zeitz: at
Zeppelinstrasse, 2-4-6, command headquarters and the MVD. In Arnoldstrasse, two
houses and in Bornpromenade a. villa, wose0useslarree0notaknown. army bread; Vi11ahis
'Dona.lies, a. bakery which daily supplies
.bakery belonged originally to the Schokoladen-Oehler firm.
W,D `-eta'in I tanks
k e: -e observed on 12 Jac 5%, en
route to the training grounds in the Zei z orest.
14. On 6 Dec 53, 120 families living in Wiener Platz, .eitz (near the barracks) were
notified to evacuate their houses by 22 Dec 53. However, in consideration of
`Christmas, the date has been postponed to 6 Jan 54. It is believed-that soviet
families are coming to Zeitz.
15. Members of the new peasant settlement of 17eu-Breitenbach, bordering on the Zeit.z
training grounds, have had to leave their houses and fields and go to settle in
Mecklenburg. The training Lrounds are to be enlarged, and the buildings erected
in 1947 by volunteer labor will be used in part as quarters and those farther out
as targets for the artillery.
16. Soviet officers and soldiers have been visiting German families and making gifts
recently. German women who marry Russians must go to the Soviet Union within
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