MISCELLANEOUS VP INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900500001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTENT I JanuZrv to 13 February 1953
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On 12 February 1953, a VP main clothing depot at the
forr:'er textile school in Cottbus. The depot which had, allegedly, been
established there in October 1952, was said to stock 20,000 to 23,000
itens of clothing and underwear. According to a VP man, the unit at the
Cottbus airfield continuously ticked up clothing at this depot. About 30
two-ton trucks for personnel and 20 B4W sedans were seen in the garages
of the depot. The textile school also quarterec. a VP unit of about 100 men
and the VP Bezirk administration. Foundations for radio towers of a trans-
mitting station were under consttuction in the area of the school.
Components of the towers had already arrived,
On 13 February, 12 to 111, new t
had arrived for the VP unit in Kochstedt in the night of 8 February.
On 21 January4 accormodations for the VP were being
built in great haste near Teplitzer Strasse and Zellescher Weg in Dresden
and that equipment and weapons including carbines, machine guns, mortars
and artillery pieces were being trucked there.
On 19 January I the first medical course of the VP in
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Erfurt was to be followed, in January, by another one, which was to be
attended exclusively by young trainees. In late January, all the instructors
of the school were to attend a course on how to deal with the effects of
modern means of combat.
In early February9 the KVP rest center in Freienwalde
had been occupied since 1 February. The rest center is used by officers
and I.
On 17 Januarys the VP engineer unit which had been
stationed at the Fuenfeichen Camp near Neubrandenburg until early Uscemoer
1952, had moved to the former Reich Labor Service Camp at Treuenbrietzen,
The unit, which consisted of 350 to 400 men.
Oberkormissar Adler (fnu), a forr:er tank officer, and 0berkorinissar or
VP Rat Seppel (fnu), a #crrer dive bomber pilot, belonged to this unite
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The Fuenfeichen Carp eras r:eoccuried by three other omits, which were,
allegedly, under the cornand of Yajor Kieslich (fns) ;, %I."-, ~: o of the
officers of the engineer unit rlre viou ,ly staticned a tthe cant, were
taken over by the new unit also an engineer outfit. Light weapons
and trucks were obsearved.
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7. On 3 February, the engineer unit corxi anded by Aia o ' Kieslich was still
stationed at the Fuenfeichen Camp. Kie' lick had reortedly been chime'
of staff of the unit which moved to Treuenbrietzen. Seni.cr Lieutenant
Pezold (fnu) was chief of staff at Fuenfeichen. favonstrations in the
construction of emergency bridges were, aliegecly given every day on
the sr-?all lake near the cars.. ,everal. pontoons were so-sn in front of the
garage behind the former estate. The camp was heavily guarded.
8. In mid--December p Gera was soon to become the post of
a VP division. The cornea Yodrach factory at 109 Wiesen Strasse was being
reconditioned to serve a. VP aecomrtodations. It wa:s3, allegedly, also
planned to move vehicles of the continuously growing motor vehicle park
of the VP unit in Ger a-Lusan to this factory. About, 100 motor vehicles,
most of them parked under emergency shelter*, were observed at Lusan.
From 10 to 15 now vehicles are said to arrive every week at t is place.
9. In mid-Decernber, the VP unit in Ocra-Lusan comprised infantry , lank,
artillery, and. engineer troops. The unit -underwent heavy tr ai iing, also
at night, in the area between Gera and Dorna. 5
10. In mid.-January 1953, the artillery unit of the VP Verband in Gera moved
to Modraeh factory on Viesen Strasser Newly recruited VP me ;tbers were
the VP suffered. from a lack of qualified NCOs.5
11. On 23 January, woap^ons of the 17F unit: stationed at
Gloewen were repaired. at the barracks In: tall..ation of ?erl eber. g aa.rfield?
From 10 to 12 barrel. wipers 505 meters long, allegedly foE the VP unit
in Gloewen, were seen at the fire of i:lipp in Perleberg.
12.+ About 5 p.r. on 2 February, 1+00 to 500 VP NGOs were seen at Halle railroad
station. The NCOs, wwo carried light baggage, marched in groups of about
25 toward the city f
13. From 26 January through 4 February, a VP detail of about 100 r21 and several
officers from Gros sea:hr.ain was receiving training In mine laying at the
Koenigebrueck troop training grounds. The detail was quartered in Neues
Lager and trained by Soviet officers, it had a red pennant with a white 3,1
in it.
25X1 A 1. Corrt,nt ? The, utilization of the former textile school i.rt Cottbus
by the VP issrreported for the first time. The Hq and the let Rent of the
let VP Air Div are located at Cottbus airfield. The unit obse rved in the
school probably was the guard battalion of the DDVF Cottbus, the rteen tiers
of e *iich wear the blue uniforms of the general police It ' s not clear
whether the motor vehicles reporter? belonged to the VP air unit at the
airfield or to the BTVPO
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