MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800040001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION
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I 25X1 PLACE OBTAINED
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11AT F OF C ON z FNT- __ .1 January to 21 Febr rsr 1953
D A T E O B T A I N E D . 25X1?q,_,~DATE PREPARED March 195
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the following detrainments were handled
;~ the Satzkorn railroad s a on: 25X1
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RR Cars
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2 c?s tanks
2 tak gasoline
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14 2 tank gasoline
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17 8 errs workshop
trucks
22 1 s?.ar engine oil
25 1 war tank. engines
:?h 6 cars flour
27 1 car engine oil
3 cars tanks
28 2 cars tanks
D~sLatchin
Station
Wuensdorf
Diesenthal
I- alle-Sued
Frankfurt/Oder
Finowfurth
Fuerstenberg
Felten
Fberewalde
Kirchmoeser
?rom 1 to 5 February, units from the Kavallerie Schule at Krampnitz
conducted 1:rr of flatcars with 2 field kitch ns
7 prime movers with 76 2-?nr i ? ns and about 25 trucks
sssed through the station toward
a nort her direction.
l'3.nt12..1ablay~a a 'train consisting of 10 boxcars and an
undetermined numb(-.- of flatcars carrying 1 sedan and 37 trucks
25X1 1we?e at the station., facing south-.
war n
25X1 &ince 12 Februatyy, the cantonment on Braid-, .tee Twras oa Lpied
only by a rear detai +. of about 20 soldiers, h I
25X1 co . > ?eft. confirms the H q lC-th Gds Tank Div in
25X1 Krar:pnitz until, 2? Jaxxuaary 19 53. confirm s the "let Ods
1,,v Tank SF Re of the 10th kris Tan]: Div in Y ran 7nitz until 27
25X1 Januai-y 1953)
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by order of the soviet transportation
25X1 -wr.-.:515. ' era, of wt. anua y, :shuttle, '::trains for training .urp uses had
to be assembled. Of these trains, slra*:tle train had to be !_ss.de
25X1 a.vai-able at the S'atzkornn rfalilroad .--station for 1 February.
25X1 It. is believed that, following the loading
exercises o . unite o the 10th Comas Tank Di.v from Krarmpnitz, units
25X1 of the 63d Gds Tank ]cog t of the div:_ lion from Brandenburg were to
25X1 cond a,ct sir lar practices.
25X1 3.; Co!ri., units of the 9th Gds
25X1 lank Div as well as units of the 2d Lid ht Arty Brig, (US) head
.xerc:ises in the area north of `~e uru-epin from about 12 to 15 'February
25X1 1953. The r,:--turn of divisional units was observed in the I;oustrel itz
25X1 s'lit'ary post fr orm 15 to _. 7 February 1953
As units o he 495th
n S ca the 9th Gds Tank Div 'a orm the restricted area on Gerhart
25X1 Hauptr!a.nn Strasso and units of the 2:.3 4th Mort lest of than division frog,
the Alte Grena.d per ease: ne e.ere a.p;X,.-, qtly not back by 20 February,
it appears that these units received other ai me upon cmpletiozt
of the exercises. Definite evidence from deeuruppin : il.itary post
:showed that unite of t12th Oda Tank Div P not involved in these
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25X1 Cflmr .r_ It is believed that motor veh;.cloy of the 6th Gds i "ko
Div were :.oaded on. 14 February. It could not be determined whether the
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train went to Ten lin where, since Janus. x7 uri. to of the 6th. Gds
,'ecz Div an: other units engaged in combat firing practice, or whether
it went to the area norther et of 3 .thenow, where, ele rents of the
Fourth Gels .'cez Arr j hold winter exercises fron 17 to 20 February,
The -,,u .k of the units involved. in the
exercises northeast of ?lathenow, however, went there by road, The
.trains on 15 and 21 February carried units of the unidentified
army :.T artillery brigade of the Fourth Gda 1-?ecz Army which,
15 'ebry and returned to 8l ..nau fro exercises northeast of Rathenow
on 21 February, It is believed that the
sirs 1 co3 munication unit o: the Fourths Gds liecz Ar:, r or GCOPG, carried
in the e :anon lent on I reidseh itstrasse, may have left for the army
tt-ai.ning area prior to the be 1n of the e=xercises, in order to propa:re
conmu Icatio s.
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