1. YOUTH TRAINING CENTERS 2. AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100410001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
East Germany
1. Youth Training Centers
2. Airfield Construction
DATE OF INFO.
REPORT 25X1
DATE DISTR. 18 February 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
PLACE ACQUIRED REFERENCES 25X1
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
A so-called national youth school is being'built at Stralsund, which is to be com-
pleted by the middle of 1953. It will accomodate 320 men, The students will be
prepared for special missions in a six months course. The Interior Ministry has
appropriated 3,5009000 DM, of which 1,2009000 have already been made available.
The training is intended to develop leaders for the I'Dienst ftir Deutschland.ii The
instructors will be politically trained Volkspolizei_Officers, some of whom are
seasoned veterans.of the Spanish Civil War.
2.. A training camp for Free German Youth (FDJ) functionaries has been in existence
since,15 September 1952 at the Soviet troop training grounds at Ohrdruf, near Weimar.
More than 100 beds and 88 lockers have been provided by moving out Soviet troops,
The camp opened with 234 members who undergo a course of instruction lasting several
weeks. There are also weekend courses. The training is in the use of carbines,
scouting and utilization of terrain, partisan combat, and in the theory of parachute
warfare. The instructors are members of the Volkspolizei.
3. An airfield will be built at Bad Saarow on the lands of the former Scharmftzelsee
Land Society, for the Soviet occupation forces. Its completion is scheduled for
October 1953. Workmen's barracks are already built.
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