MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BRANDENBERG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100050008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military Information from Brandenburg
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EVALUATION
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17 July 1953
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1. Martial law was declared in Brandenburg on 17 June and alas lifted on.
26 June 1953. During this period, troops who had arrived from an undetermined.
direction, had been employed in the town. Prior to 30 June., guns were dug in
in Goerden. On 30 June, the troops called in for eriploymena in Brandenburg
had been withdrawn. The area of the Generalfeldzeugmeister KaserXce had been
sealed off during the period of martial law. The situation was back to
normal on 26 June. The occupation of the installation was unchanged. No
training activity was observed. Motor vehicles
warm seen on route to the installation. After martial law had
been lifted, the Infanterie Kaserne was occupied by about 100 'troops and
the Flak Kaserne by about 150 troops
The Pion er aserne was occupiea as
previously about roopii? There was no training. Truck
was observed.1 At 7 pam. on 3 July, a shipment of 5 converted boxcars
occupied by about 20 officers and about 150 EM ; and 10 flatcars carrying
6 x 7 AA guns, I field kitchen and 7 trucks
which had been loaded at the Bran en s a railroad station, e
for Jueterbog
2a n 18 June, 2 sedans and 20 trucks, each occupied by 2 officers
and , Ws, left the Artillerie Kaserne and were later observed at
Puschkin Plat
guns o Various ers a een emplacea in ,.n
surrounding the.Ooerden firing range. 1
1. omment. all troops called in for
employment during the period of martial .law, presumably units of the 20th
Army AT Arty Brig (US), left 'toward Altengrabow prior to 26 June.
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I I can assum that, beginning 26 June, the
Bran en R rn .i.tar post was a occupied as before tha aemorai-cra-c1ons
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there is almost no doubt, that the
crown AAA unit of the ai.r force stationed in Brandenburg was
entrained for firing r?acticec in Jueterbogo
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