GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100470009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY-
EVALUATION-L--.-PLACE OBTAINED
DATE OF CON'T`ENT
DATE OBFAtNED DATE PREPARED. toPrig 1953
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1. The following loadings and unloadings were
Doeberitz railroad station-
which
towed 120-mm mortars were entrained,. The vehicles came from
the O isehes Dor
an undetermined number of trucks, including 16
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from the quarters of Unit No I and were ent-rained? C-2)
18 2,71arch: six 132-.mm rocket latxriche
at the Daligow-
16 March: six T-34/85 tanks
field howitzers ` included vehicles
~, March: eight JS-3 tanks)
Unit No II and about 40 trucks, including [..G~ which towed 1~
from the OlympischeLs- o-- were ent ra ne o
21 March: six 132-mm ket launchers including one with a vehicle
were unloaded and subsequently driven to
Olympisohes Dorf. On l.` ?larch, 4 x 57-mm AT guns and 6 x 76--mr~ AT
runs left the quarters of Unit No I to the troop training grounds
and, on 20 March, `3 T-34/85 tanks, 2 SP ' guns, 6 x 76-mm AT guns and
4 x 12O--ram, mortars. Troops engaged in gun drill with 12 x 122-mm
field howitzers in the Adler.Kaserne.
bordered black epaulets with signal insignia.2 On 22 March, the
2. On the morning of 23 March, 15 x 76-mm field guns, 35 to 1.0 empty
trucks, 1 ambulr-nee, 2 Jeeps, 2 field kitchens were loaded on an
undetermined number of flatcars and troops wearing red-bordered black
epaulets on 13 boxcars at the Dallgow-Doeberitz railroad station.
The unit was to have come from the Olympis chas Dorf.1
3. On 22 March, the camp, 8 kri southwe t of Trebbin, along the Glau-
Blankensee road, was occupied by about 500 troops who wore black-
barracks installations in Bernau were still occupied
still occupied
No loadings were made.
Tanks practiced with tracer ammunition at the Alt.-Ranft garrison
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On 22 March, the Panzer Kaserne in 33ad Freienwalde was
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SP Regt of the divi 1cn which was loaded on 19 1, :arch
reported to have gone to Neustrelitz, y The 25X1
entrainment on 19 ;:arch was made by units of the 283d Gds How A.rty-
Ite t of` the divisiono. The train went to Forst Eiinna,
It is improbable that the guns should have come
from Olympisches Dorf, as the regiment has been carried in Altos Lager
and as the same source alleges to have seen 122-mri' ,eld. howitzers in
the Adler Kaserne or, 17 i ar?ch. It is believed that, on 21 ?arch, the
rocket :Launcher unit wh'_i.ch had on 18 !arch returned from
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probably m a d e by units of the 2d Light Arty Brig (U ) .fromtheolynpisches
Dorf which as re -:cots on tray 7snortat?i orz n, ?L e tern, had T oared to Forst
6.
As is stationed in Camp Glau near Trebbin.,
gn The 138th (ids Sig Regt of the Third Gds M ~cz
~__RJcar : crx It, appears th,-s.t no chant-y:n? in the occu ton of th 11 nzer^
aserne have ocrured
+Conamez t? The information refers to detrainments and entrainments
of tank firing details of the 175th Tank F :gt and the 83d Gals Hv Tank
S? Reg' of the 25th Tank Div, It is believed that co~ bat firing practices
were conduct ?d at Templin 1
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a s:t ii.J.Cr column of the Fourth
UCLS sec rmy en route-, .coin T ripli.r. to Vogo."..,-ang on 13 March
jOoraanent , Possibly, tanks of .1. unit c- the 6th Gds y ecz Div which
Moved to Templin for combat firing.
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