SOVIET AMMUNITION DEPOTS IN EAST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000600300002-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On 24 October 1952, the framework of the new ammunition depot. at Bad
Saarow on the premises of the former AAA testing station was completed
The date for the opening of the depot was fixed for 21 December 1952.
2. At the beginning of November 1952, 1.3 large bunkers, each 12 x 24 miters,
and 4 small bunkers, each 8.5 x 12 meters, had been established in the new
Bad Saarow ammunition depot. Some of the bunkers were not roofed over. A
spur track from the depot to the Bad Saarow railroad station was available.
The installation was enclosed by a double barbed-wire fence placed at a
distance of 50 meters and 12 searchlights were set up.
3. In August 1952, source: learned from an informant that the am unition depot
at Torgau-Sueptitz consisted of a bunker section, and,an .munition- filling
plant which was in the former ammunition filling station. The bunker section
covers the western part of the depot and consisted of above ground bunkers
provided with iron gates with 1a utice fences. They were established in two
rows along the concrete roads which traverse the depot. The depot is located
in a wood. The depot stores only captured German ammunition which is shipped
in sealed boxcars at irregular intervals. The ammunition is cleaned aLo .
reconditioned at Tor a . Yost of the a run Lion aasie ^ ~ r t sr s ieiI . An sutra--
tian which cannot be used anymore is exploded in' the tterrain near Sueptitz"
it orkmen stated that reconditioned ammunition is continuously shipped from
rTorgau to Mockrehna and, some shipments, to Kapen.
4. A VP deserter stated in September 1952 that, in 1949, the Soviet personnel
at the Torgau-Sueptitz ammunition depot numbered about 700 men. The depot
proper was guarded by Soviet soldiers only while the outside guard was
performed by VP men. According to rumors, large amounts of artillery ammuni-
tion, mortars ammunition, ammunition for rocket launchers, tanks and AAA
were stored in the depot.
5. On 5 October 1952, the ammunition depot Jueterbo -Altes Lager, 25X1 B
received 20 carloads of ammunition from. ra ur /Odor, under 25X1 B
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6e In rid-August and at the end of lovember, trucks
made trips to the Hohenieipisch mmmurition depot.
From Toro:
Date
20 September
7. Soviet wuruniti rr tints b rail
Load in Boxcars
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1 through
29 October
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Number of Tons ?~ece .vin *,~5 '.ation
60
3, Torgau,
3,885 Torgeu,
3 September . 1 r4cchterstaedt
From L7.tenhain
Ohrdruf
4 Lossa
Glauchau
10
16 " 2 Halle
23 mi 2 Lossa
29 " 1. Alterg rabow
Glauchau
3 October 3 45 Altenburg
5 r. 3 47 Gera
6 " 2 30 Mereeburg
3. 17 Gera
1 17 ?heiningen
1 17 Plauen
2 32 Ohrdruf
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27 October 1
28 rs 2
30 2
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4 60
15 November
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25
Gotha.
Saalfo d
Altengrabow
INaunburg
Zeitc
Altenburg
Weimar
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28
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4.80 Altengrabow
2 49 Fuerstenwalde
15 190 Altenhain
3 40 Finow
3 40 Jueterbog A1tee Lager
4 55 Da ienwaalde
4 55 Roederau
3 63 Altongrabow
2 31. Rathenow
:14 September 2
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20 Gardelegen
16 245 Altengra'bow
2 35 Rathenow
12 1855 Juetertog-A tes Lager
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