GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300460003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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mineral r;ilitary Infora*aation
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1. At~ ~b~~ $a~0 porgy. on 2g 2~arch, a_ trop tr~~.n with 12 x 3?- Ate ~~e~
and trus~CS ~s seen r~rth of Schzaerix~;,~n ro~}te, tbwe~rd Wisma~!0
2. Oza $ April: the
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by ,.trQCips who ra~r~r~e~~r~3=borderred black e'
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ir. vehicular traffic .3 On $ April
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asrailabl? for the Soviet Argy at the railroad stations of Uecht aprin,~e~
Vinielberg and Rathenow and 2 tra~.na each of 50 boxcars in_ ~t~ ~i ~aI ? ~et~reer~
S and ZO April, small colunna of Mucks carrying bi27.etin~ ~qui~lernt k-ez~e
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3. Troops and r.~ateriel from Olympischas Dorf was loaded at the Dal.lgow~?
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Dneberitz railroad stat ~
at~out !+0 ert~tY txtacks
xic~~.a xa.ticnens, z jeers,
_ am ante an troops who wor? red-bordered black epauletsII eor;e with
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I ieield ~citchena 1 3?ep .e,nd troops
xcers.:were oa a' a Da2lgow-~Doeberit~ railroad, station. It
were?een in ~~hic~lar traff is :.
th off" :5taa~ts teas o~cup:~ed tc} cA.t~ t~
could not be determined from wr:ere the troops had come from.5
At about ~.:50 aEm. on 24 Aprils the following column moved. toward
Glienicke from thQ direction of the Kavallerie Sc
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5. 0:~ 30 T~arch, 40 pontoons-from the Se6ckt Kaserne were loaded at the
F.~i?drichstadt railroad station ire ~~agdeburg. On 3 April, ~. x 57-mr~
A'.~ guns from the Herrenkrug~Anger Kaserne wore loaded at the Fried~ir..hi.asta;~?~
r~.ilroad stational
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z o -G~ prb}~,bly, a shipmeynt ba~snd -for the hfi~zsstrow AAA rare ~,
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2.
~ar~ment4 The informa#,iean irxdicates that the 8th Ind?p gngr din
of the LX7CIX Mtz Rifle Corps stationed in the Re~2onteschule and uny.tss
of ~+e 07th Nita Itif2e Dior in the Fliegerhorst Kta.serne ware at their
quarters prior to 8 April,
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Con~a~n?~. It is belie3ved that units af~?the x07th Mta Rifle Dior
~rere stationed in the barracks installation in Stoats and that the
t~nj.ts were engaged in sham-terry field exercises at Letaling Heath
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It is asBUe~ed that. units of the division made prepars.t~on.s
fear the occupation of the carip , o~,~theast of Jaevenita o
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~omment. loadings of a tangy: unit of the lsi~ Mecz Dig for- Neust~~lii.a
on l9 March and. of units of the 2d Light Af?ty Brig (U'S~ for shi~Zaerst
to Jueterbog an 23 Nlgrch. Ths apera.tians were repeatedl;~ reported,
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Coxrnnent. Other :?snfe;,rmatian indicated that the 10th Gds Tank Div
start moving to the-troop training grounds after 15 Aprilo The
mavemenis of uni?I;s of the division mantianed in the present report
were pre3sumably cor~uzectcd wit?z this transfer,
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rmaent> The ~_oading of twoaps Pram the Sseclst Kaserne wr~s
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pro ly* made by the 36th Ibn Bridge Ragt of the CAF'G a ]Ct could hat
determined whether the loading was only a shipment of equi~ent, a
r!o~renent for short term, field exc~rci~es or the final .transfer to th,e
sur.~r training. grourrds>
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