MILITARY INFORMATION FROM MEININGEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200380010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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k.Uitazy Information from Feiningen
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were seen en route to the insta .1ation,
2. on 23 December, ? he Haupt Kaserne at the inter section of Leipzige;r
Strasse and Knoche uiauer St ?asse was occu pied by troops wearing
black-bordered crinkion epaulets. Fifteen officers snd about 200
were at training in the barracks yard e Some Qf the soldiers practiced
on five mortars. At about 2 p.m... about 80 tr s
31eft the inst 1? .shoo. Ten trucks
F mere in front of a r e ! , r
loch squad include, an officer. 'rucks
.DATE PREPARED 15 January 1953
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1. On 23 December 1952,, the Barbra Kanerne in M einingen was occupied
to capacity by troops vs ring black-bordered . crimson epaulets; At.
about 9:30 a.m., about 100 troops eng?.ged in drill at squad level a
Co ent,_ The 117th Gds Mtz Rifle Regt of the 39th Oda Ytz Rifle
Div stationed in the Bar la~in ne in Meiningen was last confirmed
c x t '2 three shinmente
are the only i..rbdication::~ for the presence -in YeInIngen
of the 17 tb. Gds YYtz k if Le I,.e
from Chrcb uc" to Meiningen,
the service co1oo_? obserr=si
The occupation
of the Haupt Kasern:s by ,ow; et 'troops d reported for the first time
The nsta 1atien has been occupied by elements of a VP cadre di.visi.cn.
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