KVP OFFICES IN DRESDEN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100580005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 6 June j.953, UP offices to^at-?d in Rresdvn iu ude:i:
occu'.i.3t by offices 17 ond m,
5".school for infantry officers. ?-
Dresacn ''-, Lhc Territorialvrrvaltung; which wasa1ocited at Dr, Kurt Fischer
Allee and, until 11 V ay 1953, included an clement located on Augur t 3ebel
Straose f:hich 1a or allegYl?- transferred to the itic ,,ea coast.-
Dresden 111, Mob was an artillery school.
Dres::ien 1V xh h was , air force unit and, from 4 to 12 Nay 1953; had
moved Toad : -.Fi to the headquarters pr Ausust Bebel Stray::e previously
c3dar. 1, Ucoca Feu on August Beta Stra.sve, whAh was
with -,:; : i t. deputy? Farteil- i tung ?:id o "a: icer in charge of tr-a.ininC,. the head!
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quart .xis company =i'rclud i zf ; Ai J. detail., the instruction b tier 7 r; six
schno !t t ieri ea:c'_h of four platoons with three 3 to 9 ran groups to Leh
pla.tooa, The hi-a-6q'i?ay-tiers E.ornieny included ,O to 50 officea. 3 and a-= man
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e .: i'nts of. IN district agency in blue '; i o '^:s t:h.tch, o:')Miever, were scheduled
-40-0 transferred soon. `Office ICI cpvsi ted of the ; ?a: t : nn .c: dqua.rters
17 January to o-l';i.ne 1953; w: s transferred :fin We f cirri::r Luftgaukos:: .ndc
on t uguqt Nbei atra se to an installation located at the intersectl..n of
Do, lurti? wischer Aib.. ~,nd :ar ien Alice. This inst0nation still housed
On 1 Mcy 1953, of-.7-lee IM 4 it illery school)
T W4 "sonnal wh' 1o., `he instruMaio:n, .t er' ?v';)II..i .i t ed of an un etermined
;?; ns with druji-a :~l gaz_ ie ..an 100 uwxbiucs c._ 1OU-type with fixable bayonets.
C. been ari'o,'r d.. The 2d Co: can{ was armed vi to 19 Seviot 44-type subnachine
number of tic,':r r:: s3 :J4Os aii personnel. Each s hoof battery consisted
A F cat f .c4 *s, l star so' ant, about .10 officer aopira:its _;rd about 15
?CDs and parsonnno1. s'hE. 2.......... " s aspir a'cti , :mils and personnel ha i had to
.,ai r up 'Cor sever- --yet r't tern of ;ervicq.
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Office `g asegUIPP dr?;?it:-, 6 C 122-.rte; aadal i..:38 nd i 40 MY howitzers'*
2 x ). 2 _.r:i h .;3 f el.d llo it:se,:3, F 7-rim AT guns of two different typos,
one wn:i-ch had a removable g shield and the other with a t.:un shle ci si -:ilar
to twit of the ..:) r`? ", Jt 1.' gu.`i gnu 1 x 122-nn riortar. The 76-r= AT k:uns and
the 122-.ran field h- o :itzc r: wore towed by limbers vhlie the 122-= mortar and
tine f100 howitzers wnre totiie.' by ve'L cles or prime :rovers. Too-axle
Horn t 1?50-type tore c v ilable. The ordni ;ice office- h _r under his
,:c r ; x 1?$t machlac Tins i`Jt t-ui feed, 0~~. typ:e pieto.L:, cngineer equipment,
_a ai -i p;fent, r% -rte :ephoraes, and. gas masks. 'io as nstruc? Lion had
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On 2 Jura:, each co::pac; had to tarn in seversi csar..y.n.:s to as .its stationed
on the attic Sea coast.
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Following is a tabial t -on showing se.-,,-vice cciors co the
anch of ;:service Collar I t c C ,
Irr:'antry
krtil' ery
red crimson
black red-bordered
black
dark-blue-
bordered
black
Signal u:i#ts yellow bordered
black
Adrdnistrative units green red-bord~hred
green
Border police
li_.-ht green
li,;ht green
Wil,'~: 'I Pieck detail at the light red li;rt red
Ministry of the Interior
"blue.. oar'.ler?e(
black
yellow-
bordered.
black
red-bcr aorcd
Freon
li.^lit green
light red
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The air force wore uniforms of a different cut with a cktios and blue collar
;itches. Officers had an air force wine at their cap while NCOs and personnel
wore cockades,
lg Cor^r n Office Dresden I is an officers' school for tactics iA truction
for commanding officers of regiments and battalions and chiefs of staff. WhI- e
the Yamenz airfield was under construction,, the 'T ' . txlgre
was tenpora"ily transferred to Dxesten-Ilotzache,- r"r_ 25X1A
-, 1A 2. omrnen . s comrnana.ing of "icer of TV 3000. Major
25X1 of '.he tactics officer's school.. Coloae.
25X1 s n c rge of the school administration oi' the I1V'KVP.
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rz _ent Available records inLicated that tank and mechanized troops
wear black-bordered blue collar patches while the erg};ineers wear blue.??bardered
black collar I atch s. The :ilbelm Pick detail probably, is a guard regiment
of the K',/1' in Berlin.
U. S. r'!'I C:ALs (-,'TTY
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