MILITARY INFORMATION FROM JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200200009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUAT ION.
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DATE. OBTA{NE ....M._DATE PREPARED...._.21 s... July 1953
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ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE).
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On 28 June 1953, the situation in Jena was normal again,, lit noon on 2 July, :soviet
patrols and sentries were withdrawn from the town and partially replaced 1xs VP
son-tries with dogs.
The gates of the barracks installation in Ioebetedt wore closed. Guard and patrol
service by soldiers wee ring read--bordered bl:.ck epaulet's with tank insignia was
normal. On 2 July, three trucks and five small armored vehicles apparently sze:re still
assembled in the barracks yard. Except for athletics with up to 2000 E14 parl';icipating
daily, no training activity was observed. On 1 July, 200 to 300 troops ver:- entrainec.
at the railroad station and left toward :'eiinuro A detail of the starve gtrea;::h returner
to the barracks installation. On 3 Julys loaded with laund,.y entered
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3., The rates of the barracks installation in Zwaotzen were also closecif and gt as(.i and
patrol service was normal. There was no activity at the installation excep, for
athletics. On I Jul,.~a 200 to 300 EM from the Zwaetzen barracks installation were also
rotated.
Source believed that the rear details in the barracks installation:a in I,o*,Ostedt and
Zwaotzen were not reinforced, and that the units were still- at the troop training
gro,mdsn1
4. At 8 p,,m0 on 1 July, a troop train carrying 20 trucks and 12 artil ery piEces with
lo,, barrels passed through the Jena railroad station toward Gera,
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Gomrnent a The
status of occupation in Jena rena.tne the
some as p:r oY tr;. 17
June 1953
units from utararial.
There are no reports thk',.-
v,,..e also dispatched to Jena.
as to Weimar ,rid .2eitz ,
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2,,
e a he troop train probably hauled eleme-ats of the 308th Art) Brig (US )
frogs Oh rdruf to Gera. Compare with a similar shipment in a previous report, See
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CLASSI "ICAT ION
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