GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700520005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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General Military Information
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s wou ,c. n a e MET e roc a launchers and the artillery units came
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to On 28 April 1953, a large number, of AA gunsp presumably 37 m vi grans, with trucks were
entrained at the Chemnitz railroad station. coming from Leninstrasse a 1
20 On I May, 14 rocket launchers passed through Dresden, proceeding to Koenigabrueck by
road. On 7 May., several troop trains , inch ing 122 nmi guns and,
with the same shipment, a truck ere seen passing through
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moved from Dresden to Koe gs ruec a 25X1 25X1
on rarer to preceding years,
during w c b, even a er the departure o the troops to the troop training grourr^A,
some activity was observed, in the barracks installations of the post, almost no Soviet soldiers in the installations. Motor vehicles were no longer aeeno , t
was rumored that the troops would not return and that the installations would be
turned over to the KVPO This rumor, to some extent, was strengthened by the fact., that,,
in the Friedrich August Kaserne, lathes had been dismantled from their concrete bases
and had been loaded. On 8 May, about 15 officers with mapunting boards and plans
were seen in the south section of the Dusohe Kaserne during an inspection. I c
residents believed that the installation was being inspected for the transfer.
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Presumably entraining of units of the 6th Gds AAA Div (US), which may
have gone to Koenigsbrueck, Wustrow or to the uranium miming areas Shipments of the
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from the Luf =ct-trichten Kaserne in Nickern