MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE WEISSWASSER TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000760010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/02/25: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001000760010-6
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1. On 2 March 1953, T-34 tanks stood east of Camp Nochten at the Weiss- 25X1
wasser troop training grounds. On 3 March, 30 soldiers practiced aiming
with rifles in the eastern section of Camp Nochten, while about 60 other
soldiers organized in groups apparently received instruction in the
traininp area. e w on 5 March, 4 trucks and 6 T-34 tanks
and a tank chassis were detrained at
the Weisswasser railroad station. The vehicles drove toward Camp Nochtenol
2, On the morning of 4 March, a convoy of 20 trucks and another convoy of
20 to 30 side ar motorcycles drove toward Cottbus along the Spremberg- 25X1
Cottbus road,
the sawmill was closed.
an _a all. workers had been discharged. It was said that the residents
living in the vicinity of the mill would be resettled in Mecklenburg, as 125X1
area was to be vacated for the Soviet army.
4 At about 4:30 p.m. on 5 March, a troop train which came from the direction
of S rer!ber 3 was detrained at the Weisswasser railroad station. T-34 tanks
anks 1 tank chassis and truck
with about 30 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets with
tank insignia were unloaded an::. subsequently marched toward Carr Nochten0
Petween 10 a.m. and noon on 5 3.arch, 2 officers and about 20 soldiers drilled
at group level on the tank firing range, while about 20 other soldiers eng25X1
in entrenching work along the southern border of the fixing range, At about
10 a.m. on 9 March, firing td th live ammunition, apparently by tanks, was
heard for about 10 minutes. Prior to 9 March, Camp Nochten quartered only a
guard detail of 100 to 150 soldiers who wore red-bordered black epauletso25X1
Truck rove to the Weisswasser railroad station, occupied by about.
20 sos ers wearing red-bordered black epaulets and coming from Camp Nochten..
troop training grounds in mid-4ercha3
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;ractica of the Ott '' ez Div was continued
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