GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300330009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. At ",about 5 a.m on2 July 1_?53a T-7341-tanks apd- -JS --1 teen :s
ni- o i ages cartu proceea3-ng toward J3uchowextweg, at 7:15 min4 h r wer-
6 x 57ours A77 guns and 6 x 12O-nisi mortars and occupied by troops wearing
red-bordered black epaulets were seen, coming from the direction of
Fehrbitz and proceeding toward Kra inpnitz o) At about 3:15 p om they ,were
foo3rq,-1uJS-2 tank
On the evenin of- 2 July, ree un4 is . llegec ly le t ri he,,po, t
On 25 July, the Flugplatz, Kaserne,- Gcho:auvalda~, was ooe upied by about 3,900
tr ps.,n den riew pbserved wore red-bordered black epaulets,, On 13 July, 6 ;
trucks towing 37-mm AA. guns and] were seen in the barracks area;- and 6 x 37-m!, AA guns were in the emplace lent on the landing
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in "the "iether Kaserne, On 26 July, a6olumn of about 170 troops wearing
red--bordered black epaulets left the vY)st toward Brand
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300-rin rocket launchers
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wearing red-bordered black epaulets were seen en route toward Rathenow
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coning from an undetermined direction, Troop trains observed during the
period under review included a train of 6 boxcars"occupied k troops wearing
red-bordered black epaulets; and an undetermined number of flatcars carrying
'6 x 37-mm AA guns and trucks at the
Pathenow gain station; a train or 6 boxcars occupied by troops; and an
undetermined number of latcars carrying 4 armored scout c s and trucks
a the a enow north s a on; and a train of boxcars occups.ec by troops
wearing red-bordered black epaulets; and 30 flatcars with sideracks,
including 6 carrying 132--rte rocket launchers; and others carrying trucks
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4. Columns seen passing through Finow between 20 and 24 July Included a column
of 13 trucks towing 1- -ern mortars, coning from the direction of the
autobahn and proceedin toward Eberawalde, at about 4:30 p.MQ on 21 July;
a column of 13 trucks, towing 4 x 120-m mortars and
coning from the direction of Eberswalde and proceeding ward the autobahn,
at about 11 am. on 2f Jul a and a column of 5 motorcycles, 2 0armored
scout cars 2 armam d. personnel carriers, and. 1 half-track
vehicle, coming from the direction of Finowfurth and proceeding toward
Eberswalde, at about 3 p,,ma on 20 July, 4 On 21 July, 9 boxcars loaded with
am unition arrived at the bialdeolust a- unition depots
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of the 1st Meoz Div, elements of wish
carried at the Doeberitz troop training gro F4
Field 0ommant 4 I on 20 July, the Flugplatz
Kaserne occupied to capacity by units of the 31st AAA Div and the 90th RL
Regt (US) of the Second Gds Meez Armrr
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The rocket launchers on the third mentioned train possibly belong
to the let A'ecz Div wtixich on :Ud, July, entrained 6 rocket launchers in
Doeberitz, prespnably for Juetorbog or Altengrabow,
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G F__IgoMent o The columns probably involved units of the .Fourth Gds 1?ecz
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