COMMAND POST EXERCISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200270049-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: September 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affe~?ting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT O'omand Post Exercise
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DATE OF INFO.
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Between 26 and 28 Augusts fife troop trains
were dispatched to Angermuende from the Forst Firma., Lia ken-
walde and Trebbin railroad, stations.
A train consisting of an undetermined number of fl,ataars, carrying 39 tracks of the
3rd i Mechanized Army, billeting equipment and four amphibious oars, and. 12
boxcars was loaded at the Forst Zimna railroad station on 26 August.
01 26 Au$usi,, 120 soldiers from Camp Glau, wearing black-bordered black: epaulets,,
and motor vehicles of the 3rd Guards Mechanized Armor were loaded at grebbin for
shipment . toward Jueterbog.
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on 26 Augusta 60 motor vehicles of the 3rd Shook Aroy, which probably
came.from the Anger Kaserner were loaded at the Friedriohstadt railroad station
in Magdeburg. Twenty telephone truoke were loaded at the Alter?17iehhor rata
on Landwehr Stras ne
on 27 August,
twenty radio trucks were loaded
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Twenty trucks, ten large jeeps, and
A train a dispatched from Magdeburg to
Pasewalk on 27 August. Another train
from Magdeburg to Prenzlau on the following day.
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6. On 26 August, 50 motor vehicles of the 8th Guards Army with billeting and signal
equipment and 400 soldiers wearing black-bordered black epaulets.wera er.trained
in Weimar on a train enroute from Nohra to Leipzig.
G'om-elit.: The above information tends to indicate that a co?mn.-post
exercise-was started in late August in the area west and southwest of Stettin.
No information has been received to date regarding the possible participation of
the signal units of the let,.2ud, and 4th Guards Mechanized Armies and of the
GOFG.
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