GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800330008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 7 February, the barracks installation in Bernburg was occupied by
':'bout 3CC to AZO soldiers, most of whom were recruits. A battalion
ellogedly returned from Ruegen Island. The cantonment near Dessau
eas ?cent:led. Other details were in Potsdam Neuhaldensleben and Bran..
eenburg. Trucks seen in the installation
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2. At about 11 a.m. on 1C February, four 152-rm gun howitzers were being
emplaced on the east side of Bornstedterfeld near Potsdam. Four prime
movers and 2 nrire movers with trAilern 611 which ahnnt Al; frnmv4 'tied
arrived
and truck [were nearby. The observation post was about 1,500
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placement. At 11:15 a.m., gun displacement to the area of the Bornim
estate, south of the Fahrlandsee (lake) was performed. Seven soldiers
equipped with a commander's telescope on a tripod, an airing circle on
e triped9 a map-mounting board, a field telephone and a cable reel were
eeen drring the displacement. At the same time, a telephone line was
,trung between the old emplacement and the new observation post. 4
3. At 5 p.m. on 12 February, 8 x 100-mm AT guns, several trucks and an
undetermined number of half-track vehicles were being detrained at the
Vattstock railroad station.' 9ric
were identified. A lieutenant colonel and two manors wearing artillery
eneignia were on the Rlatforn. Elements of the unit had probably been
unloaded previously. At about noon, two troop trains carrying an
endetermined number of 85-mm AA guns and trucks were seen at the Velten
railroad station. The trains had arrived from the direction of Schoen-
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_j_gpment. Same source reported in mid-January that the barracks
installation in Bernburg which is believed to quarter the unidentified
engineer regiment of the GOFG was occupied beyond capacity And that
details were continually detached for training.
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is possible that training details of the regiment are at the places
-entioned in paragraph 1. however, as this fact alone would not account
the light occupation of the installation on .7 Febrnory, major ele-
zonts may be stationed in the carp near Dessau-Aken, ::here the regiment
trained also in the sumner of 1952.
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f,lx- units of the 34th Arty Div (US) which, according to this information,
Iviae again practicing there on 10 February.
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t an AT unit of the
Third Shock Arr , pi-manly or the 18th Mecz Div, was being detrained.
25X1B The unit Was probably transferred to .the training area for advanced
combat firing practice. Similar details were observed at thT training
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tJ (.7toent. the two trains carried
uilits of iin 31s -c AAA viv. As the two trains were standing on one track,
it probably was only one shipment which, according to records
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Ion 12 February went fro r- Boetzow to neltrelitz where it was
aserved to be unloaded.
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