MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BAD FREIENWALDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100110010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DA`E OF CONTE
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PREPARED.
On 2 and, 3 Decembers. the Pa.n7er Kasorne in Bad Freienwalde was occupied by about
1500 tank troopers about 300 artillery men and '100 to 300 motorcycle riflemen,
transit traf:,-Ic: discontinued to the barracks installation in
Bad Freienwalde on 15 November the :instal let ` . ? as an .), en .
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only occupied b r the permanent occupation prior to ?5 Nov,
On 6 November,
about 1,200 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets including 60 wearing blue
epaulets were entrained and deported toward Frankfurt/Oder,while 19100 soldiers
Wearing red-:,bordered black epaulets were entrained on 9 November and about 1..000
solders including- 850 wearing red-bordered black epaulets, 100 wearin,? blue
epaulets and 50 wearing crimson epaulets were entrained on 19 November. The
two groups
soldiers arrived in small and large groups, On 6 November
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of 150 soldiers and one of ?O0 soldiers wearing. red-bordered black eppaulets, Groups
of 150 and 250 soldiers seen on 10 November had red-bordered black epaulets One
hundred soldiers wearing .red-border eed black epaulets were seen on 11 1~ ovcmber., Two
groups of 400 and POO soldiers wearing- red-bordered black epaulet., were observed on
1` November and 100 and 120 soldiers wear. ing red-bordered black epaulets were seen
on 1.3 ^Tovember..
On 5 December, the l'a,nzer Yaserne in Bad Freienwalde was occupied to capaci
The soldiers seen there wore red-bordered black epaulets.,
arrccaent., The information contained in paragraph 1 of the present report
again underestimates the occupation strength,, The inbvallation is apparently still
nnmiri ryrt by i ni t.j of t.hFa 6th (k Mar' My ac l nrH rated in the last report
processing center for discha.rgees of the
CLASSIFICAT!OIN ST;CR ;
report also indicated a
Fni-th Gds Mec7 j=rn % in Bad Freienwalde,
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Other informs -,ion ' ndicatclr.l that the shipment of dischari-ces to - ; rt
terminated In ah'1 t ?0 ,Dverjber,,
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