MILITARY INFORMATION FROM STAHNSDORF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100820004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military Information from Stahnsdorf
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1. From 15 through 25 June, the Schlieffen Kaserne in Stahnsdorf only quartered a
small tear detail. The h' Sadquart,era '-building and the dispensary continued to be
occupied as ucssn11y., Individual officers end .1 were seen proceeding to the
Siegfeld Kaserne and the officers 3 billets, There was no change in the status of
the antenna installations however, the three radio trucks were not seen. The
barracks installation was guarded by sentries who wore black-bordered black epaulets,
25X1 On 15 Jun mor sianals. e building in the southern corner of
25X1 the installation. On 1 June out 20 soldiers who wore black-borde:
black epaulets with signal insignia o ng c ose order drill without weapons. On 23
June, 12 solc3.iere wearing black-bordered black epaulets with signal insignia were
25X1 observed doing fatigue duties. Truck ccupied by about 15 soldiers with -
signal insignia left the barracks installation toward Gueteraelde.
2. During the reported period, also the Siegfeid Kaserne only quartered a small rear
25X1 detail. On 19 Junel 115 men engaged in athletic exercises; on 20 June,
25X1 15 men were seen doing fatigue duties; and on 22 June, 30 soldiers practiced aimir
with four machine guns at the close-combat course. At 9040 aomo, truck
25X1 occupied by one officer and eight 2i including two with full equipment ex e
barracks installation. The two soldiers with field equipment entered t
25X1 cabin about 100 meters before Gueterfelde0 Truck nd jeep
were seen proceeding toward the barracks installation.
3. The Ludendorff Kaserne appeared to be only lightly occupied., The soldiers seen there
25X1 wore black-bordered-black epaulets with signal insignia. On 18 June
gin undetermined object, formed like a truck radiator, on a platform built on the. roo
25X1 the southern block of the barracks installation. Ile;,.ide this object there was anothe.:
aratus about 30 cm square with a rod mounting a flower pot-like device n
25X1 s .ttery cohmaaderOs telescopes or a signal Ian apparatus covered w:Lth a
c aouflage net at the western gable of the block o it 8 p.m. on 20 June,, a military
band was heard playing. Only 10 soldiers were seen.
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25X1 ere was reverish activity at the installation in the night of 16/17 June.
At 3 a.m. on 17 June, the first tanks, moved through Gueterfelde toward Berlin, At
25X1 7:20 a.m. on'the Babelsberg-Gueterfelde highway, a unit whose
soldiers wore re or ee_e black epaulets with tank Insignia moving toward Berlin,
25X1 The soldiers wore field equipment F__ I
Twelve. 57 guns were seen. At a s or distance o n owed another unit whose
25X1 soldiers also carried field egipment. 6 or 7 x 120-mm. mortars. and trunks
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mounting AA machine guns.
about 100 tanks moved through Oueterfelde--Stahnsdorf between 3 a.m.
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a large number of radio trucks.. ambulancesm ? s trucks and other
motor vehic1.es? On 17 and lS Junep all military installations in 25X1
Stahnsdorf were guarded by soldiers wearing field equipmento
25X1 10 ' la I the barracks Lnstallati i
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present report indicates that the signal units of the GOrU were arooao y engaged.
25X1 In exercises for which they must have left prt r to 15 Junes
25X1 Delements of probably these units were observed at the Weisse Stadt
restricted area in Oranienbuag on 21 June.
25X1 2.~~ena This information probably refers to the repeatedly observed
movements of the let Mecz'Div to at Berlin via Potsdam-Stehnsdorf which started
after the morning of 17 June.
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