1. SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS 2. APPEARANCE OF MIG-15'S AT COTTBUS AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I.NTELL.I.GENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document Contains information affecting the Na*
tional Defense of :the United States, within the triean-
ing, Of Title 18 ;. Sections 783 and 704, of thb U.S; erode,; as
amended: Its trIfismissio4} or revelation of'its contents
to or=receipt by an unattthorazed' Person is prohibited
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
East Germany
1. Soviet Troop Movements
Appearance of MIG-15 l s at
Cottbus Airfield
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1. Preparations for the movement of the unit stationed in the Flak Kaserne in
WMeu were observed"in early April. Practice targets and range finders
were transported from the barracks to the railroad station on 13 April,
2. A unit stationed in the Horn Kaserhe in Frankfurt/Oder was dispatched by rail
to Lieberose The entrainment of 30 tanks and the shipment of four troop
trains without tanks were observed on 15 April and on 15 and 16 April
respectively, A troop train loaded with 40 trucks and 40 x 120 mm mortars
was observed at Frankfurt/Oder, enroute from Berlin to Lieberose, in the
afternoon of 15 April.
3, Sixteen troop trains passed through the Muellrose railroad station between
15 and 19 April. On, 19 April, the entraining of guns, trucks and personnel
was observed at the Fuerstenealde railroad station.
4. The transfer of units from Bernburg to the Dessau-Aken Camp took place between
10 and 14 April, Bridge sections were entrained art Waldau. A rear detail of
35 men remained in Bernburg,1
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observers. Entrainment operations were also observed at Bad Freienwalde on
16'April. The shipments from Eberswalde included 62 tanks of all types,, 18
armored vehicles, seven motorcycles with sidecars, 16 AT guns$ four mortars,.
and 124 trucks.
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5. Elements of the 10th Guards Tank Division boarded two troop trains, bound for
Wolmirstedt, at the Satzkorn railroad station on 15 April.
6. About 80 tanks and SP guns, 20 armored scout cars, 110 trucks, and 1600 troops
of the 6th Guards Tank Division were entrained at Wittenberg between 14 and
17 April. 2
7. Two troop trains were dispatched from Bernau to Eberswalde on 15 and 16 April,.
On 16 April only a rear detail was observed at the Luftnachrichten Kaserne
while the former pidgeon station and German army clothing depot were still
occupied to capacity.
8. The entrainment of army troops of the 4th Guards Mechanized Army and units of
the 6th Guards Mechanized Division at Eberswalde between 15 and 17 April and
the passage of two trains through Biesenthal on 17 April were noted by two
r. The entrainment of two trains with guns and equipment between 15 and 17 April
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and of five trains loaded with field guns, AT guns, trucks and equipment
between. 16 and 18 April were observed at the Vogelsang and Zehdenick railroad
stations respectively. A troop train loaded with five JS tanks and four SF guns
of the 25th Tank Division was observed passing through Loewenberg on 18 April.
Thirteen troop trains were unloaded at the Templin railroad station between
15 and 18 April. Forty-one JS tanks, 54 T-34/85 tanks and 29 SP guns were among
the material unloaded from these trains. 3
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10. Twenty-four MIG-15 fusilages were observed between the hangars of Cottbus airfield
on 8 April.
The engineer regiment of the GOFG in Bernburg, as in the preceding year,
probably moved to the training area west of Dessau and south of the Elbe.
2. It is believed that this division moved to the Werder-Markendorf training
grounds.
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3. This information supports the previous assumption that MIG-15?s as well
as Yk-11's were recently shipped to Cottbus.
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