GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000200003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. At about 9 a.m. on 11 March 1953, 8 T-34/85 tank i, 2C trucks and 2C0 25X1
troops who, came from the, Adler Kaserne ants Loewen
Kaserne, were loaded. at the D llgo -4poeher tz railroad station. 1 ' tents
inpt r trucks including two towing artillery p eces of about l00- n were
unloaded at', the `x usterr sr s marshalling yard on 12 M t th. Tile convoy was
subsequently marched guard Altes Lager.
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2. On 14 March, 2 true towing 57--m. AT urns left the Altos Lager in Doeberitz..
The Olyipische Dorf was occupied to capacitor by Unit Boshko. On 13 Mtrch,
5 J3-2 tanks and 3 T-34/85 tanks moved out of Neues La er toward the
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roov raining grounds. On 12 March, 12 T-34/85 nl-.3
- engaged in aiming practice off Xrarap.~nitz. 3choenwalde air- 25X1
field was heavily ocqupied by Unit Tulenev (fnu) on 11 March. About 20 25X1
officers and 140 recruits practiced with 5 x 37 and 8 x-85-rm AA
guns. Three AA emplacements were occupied by 3 x 85-mm AA guns each.
On 11 March, the quarters of Unit Chesnokov fnu,) were occupied to capa-
city. Motor vehicles were identified.
At 9:30 a.m,. on 14 March,. 20 boxcars were loaded with troops wearing
red-bordered black epaulets and an undetermined number of flatcars was 25X1
loaded with 4 T?.34/85 tank at the
4. On 13 March, 4 tan s, 1 armored scout car, 3 tr ucks and about 40 sol-
diers frown the Ploni :r Yasz me were entrained at the Brandenburg rail-
road station for shipment to the troop training grounds northwest of
Magdeburg. 4
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Comments On 11 Maac?ch . a tank detachment of the 19th Necz Re at of
. The tank turret of the tanks l on re indicate
t Metz Div was pres ab? ? oa des and
shipped to die litz~
that the tanks belong to the same division. This shipment went to Atilt-
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Corent 4 the in-
stallations mentic ed a :ce pt fort the Olyzr:b,i ches Dorf, were carried
to have been occupied to capacity by units of the ? st 4eez Div on :1.0
:arch. The xrosent infornation tends to ir i-
.te that, upon completion of combat firing at Juete ?bog at the be-
ginning of March, the 2d Light Arty Brig (Tis) is back in their quarters
In the Ol yoisches Dorf.
of the 31st A RL Rest (US of this Second
Odds ?'1ecz Anr;y.
Ces eta . The ohoe!m' .de airfield Is still occupied by elexcents
Cp eriu. The entrainment of s. tank unit of th 63 Gds Taik Re
f .h 110th 0 k Div from the nie_ :Ka eT-re
Letzling Reath.
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