MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE ALTENGRABOW TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000260001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY T;.atit Germany
S July 1953
DATE PREPARED
TOPIC Iviil'tary Information from the Altengrabow Troop Training Grounds
EVALUATION PLACE OBTAINED..
5 May to 3 June 1953
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On 3 June 1953, the Altengrabow troop training grounds was occupied to
capacity. A Doernitz resident stated that, at present, artillery units
from Altenbrug were also stationed at the training grounds. Several
artillery officers from Altenhh.cg stated that they,, this year, would
stay at Altengrabow only for a short time and would soon leave. During
the preceding 70a?s, these units had stayed at the training grounds all
summer. Except for the troop quarters at Altengrabow and. the Rosenkrug
cantonment, about 2 kin south of Schopsdorf, no troop camps were determined in
the training area or in the vicinity. The Rosenkrug cantonment stretched
southward as far as the Doernits-Wendlobbese road. Fort;; 122-m. field
howitzers were at a parking lot in the woods north of the abovementioned
road. Numerous one-story temporary quarters were seen in the same area.,
An undetermined number of troops received inFtruction on 3 x 122-mm fie:c
howitzers in a wooded area east of the parking lot where the guns had beat
observed 9 On 10 May, four trucks including three towing 85-mm AA guns, 25X1 C
25X1 C a 37-m AA gun;
were observed in Ait bars Between 22 flay an . dune, ra 25X1 C
column of 7 iving school trucks,
each occupied by 2 to 5 troops wear's e- rdere black e t e s? An a
column of 11 driving school trucks.] I 25X1 C
25X1 =each occupied by about 5 troops wearing red-bordered ack epauJ.e s
were seen near Altengra Vntnr vehicles n en route to and from the
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ent, Tle artillery units from Altenburg mentioned belong to
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43d Gds Army Arty frig the bulk of Aehich, in late April!, transferred to
Altengrabow. According-to the caliber of the howitzers, the Rosenkrug
cantonment presumably is occupied by the lath Now Arty Brig (13,S) .from
`Rathenow. The driving school vehicles observed also belonged to the briga:+.e
and headquarters units of the IV Arty Corp;:,. The AAA column probably beta -.ged
to. the 31st AM Div which, according to rep,nrts on transportation, f tree:
to Altengrabow on two trains in early llay9 The other motor vehicle 25X1
belong to the Third Shock Army, the 43d Gds Army Arty Brig, the 13th AAA iv
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and the 20th Gds Mecz Div. From the latter two divisions, presumably.lig
AA units were at Altengrabow which had transferred there in early and/or
late April.
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