SOVIET TROOP ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500820164-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 164
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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4. Train. Guards wear black facings with red borders and transport inai 1a.
25X1 Garrison about 400 men. Mn tpalnlny observed_ A truck
was observed on 24 Mar 54.
25X1 5. about 200 men here. Vehicles with the following
On-23 Tar 94 the follow.ng were observed:
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truck; driver wore blue facings with black borders.
6. Heiterblick Barracks. There were two guard posts before the garages on 14 Isar 54,
Guards wore black facings with red borders and armored force insignia. Guards at
western entrance wore similar facings, without insignia. At the southwest corner
were -two patrols without insignia, armed with machine pistols. The garrison is
between 1,000 and 1,200 men. Back of the barracks practice driving was being done
25X1 with two T 34-85 tanks;. four T 34s were standing while men practiced getting in
and out q-d.akly. Firing practice was also taking place. There is a reconnaissanc.^.
25X1 car driver's school. Vehicles war 'on 14 Mar 54:
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25X1 ?, Sehonau Barracks. Guards at east entrance wore black facings with red borders %nd
25X1 artillery insignia. Qarvison numbers about 1,500. Training in three squads Mx`.:7
mortars of 80 to 90 mm caliber was observed on 16 Mar 54. F_ I
No training activities were observed on Id Her 514.
8. Cottbus. A Soviet troop train passed through Cottbus towards Berlin on 29--50 gar
Twelve cars were filled with soldiers, and about 30 cars were loaded with vehicles.
:'here were three trucks, each carrying a "Stalin organ." Six of the cars were
covered-; apparently. they carried guns- and mortars. There were no insignia or. tee
trucks. The soldiers wore red facings with black borders.
9. Pirna. A large party of high-ranking Red Arny officers was present at an
inspection on 2 Apr 54 at Schloss Sonnenstein. According to members of the Vc ~:b-
polizei, the former General Sehorner was among those present.
10. Frankfurt an der Oder. Since the middle of March 1954 loading and ship:sern 1r.
Poland of has been going on at Frankfurt an der Oder. The tanks are .lc
American ana some German models. About 100 have been counted. to date.
11. Pardubice Airfield, Czechoslovakia. Since the beginning of-March 1954 planes
loaded with ammunition have been flying from this field to the Soviet Union.
Eighteen to 20? i1ights are made daily. ? The ammunition is largely 105 mm shelf
from the Semtin works and is said to be Intended for China. -Czechoslovakian
IL-12 planes 'end Red Army planes are employed.
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