MILITARY INFORMATION FROM WEIMAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100070004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Vii' itary Information from Weimar
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10 On 21 June 953, source datermined,a eecon~i tela h "'
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At noon. 16b, 20 and 21 June, source did not o serve 'any ' acts ty? in the;'barrads
yard. At 11 am,' on 20 June, 30 soldiers wearing blue-bordered black epaulets
were lined up in the yard .of the Nachrichten Kaserne south of Leibniz Allee,
On 21
Abp 00 troops engaged inl ~}i', sical training and, obi 22 June,
about %: Voldiers were seen at drill. 1
Aanv 2 on 19 ,T? Soviet troops wearing red-bordered black cit. ul1: a trar e "pt3n
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the Ehfingsdorf switchboard with. the F ,nzer Ka-serve ~1h Jena Se
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passed ` hko ~.e town e On 20 June, +no ror..zed patrols w~ere_ no Tgngg i' observeb
in the-Aown.. Adminzctration.buildings were guarded by.do=d scout
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On 21 June,-nur ?oue` soldiers wearing red-bordered bla eYraulet 'an',{ rtci e~
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re seen in the streets of the town.
3. Vehicle columns seen en route to the Flie encA`st Kaserne at Wear-Nora
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19 June; BA-64 armored scout car une; tanks .3 T-J4 on 23 June; BA-6 . armored scout une.;
6 BA-64 armored scout cars, b
trucks towing AA guns of Ares- iy 7 su caliber
b trucks towing restam
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8 trucks, each occupied by about
s; mounting nachine guns;
and 12 trucks towing
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At 9 p.m. on 25 June, elements from the Tannenberg Kaserne and the Flak
Kaserne, Weirrrar, left their :installations by road. Source followed the units
as far as 7 km from the autobahn entrance. An informant stated that the
units proceeded toward Ohrdruf . A total of 12 x 80-m, mortars towed by
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12 x 76. mn guns towed trucks, 25X1 C
2 armored scout cars, tank rtucksf, 25X1 C
4 field kitchens, and 4 eu mored personnel carriers, 25X1 C
IA 11 troops observed with the column carried full
Weimar on 20 June, was entrained 25X1 C
ie equipnent, steel helmets., and blanket rolls. During the nights of 25
and 26 June, the tank unit which had arrived at the Tannenberg Kaserne in
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tanks and the second train troops, equipment and trucks. The trains left
toward west. 2
25X1 A 1 Cottrrnent a The information does not indicate any ch n e in the
occupation u of this installation. See 25X1 A
25X1 A 2. Co>r qnt. The information tends to indicate that, in addition to
he 5th Gds Mecz Regt, elements of the 581st Mort Regt (US) and the
unidentified motorcycle battalion of the 20th Gds Mecz Div had been
employed and, beginning, 25 June, returned to Ohrdruf by road. The tanks
of the65th Gds Mecz Reat, which source of paragraph 2 reported as early
as 19 June, possibly had already been at t:he post before the disturbances
started. The tanks which, were 25X1 A
entrained during the night or une, had, according to e 25X1 A
arrived from Ohrdrtff bar rail. on 20 June.
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