GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300520004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
General MMilita.ry Information
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WT'E OBTAINED-
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REFERENCES.
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1. At 3:30 pGrn. on 27 July 1953, 16 T-3h. tankisn 1 radio truck, 1 field kitchen 50X1-HU
and an undetermined number of trucks
were entrained at the
Escorting personnel Fiore red-bordered black epauletsJ
2,, On 29 July,, 9 x 300-- i..in rocket launchers 50X1-H U
2 "boxcar-loads of as munition9 25 trucks
sand about 250 troops wearing red-bordered black.
epaulets with artillery Insignia, were entrained at the Rathenow-Nord railroad
station(. The unit had come from the Kraftfahrer Xaserneo 2
3 On 30 July,, 6 x 300 -mm rocket launchers L
and 3
true sA
were detrained at the Dallgow railroad station an su sequen y e
for the Adler Kaserne0 3
At about 2 p.m. on 28 July, 8 factory-new canvas-covered rocket launchers
believed 0 132 rocket launchers; 4 field
kitchens, and sedan were detrained in Dallgow-Doeberitz. and 50X1-HUM
subsequently left for Lager,
5 ~ Unloadings observed at the Dallgow railroad station between 28 July and 1
August included.-
Six uleys x132 rocket launchers from I converted boxcar
6 flatcars, which had arrived from Frankfurt/Oder-border.
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O Jul~.'m About 25 trucks, 16 x 122-m field howitzers,, and about 250 troops
wearing red-bordered black epaulets from 18 converted boxcars, 34 flatcars
and 1 boxcar,.which had arrived from the direction of Forst Zinna, at about
I a.m.
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had arrived from the direction of FranVuurt/!Oder or. der, at about 8 e.4m
black epaulets from 14 gondola cars, 2 flatcars and 1 converted beaxcar, W1114-11
About-25 trucks,, 16 x 120-man mortars and about 250 troops wearing red-
bordered black epaulets from. l.4 converted boxcars, 28 flatcars and 2 boxcars,,
which had arrived from the direction of Juetea bog Altes Lager, at about 3 a era,
About 10 trucks, 6 x 132-m rocket launchers and about 60 to 70 troops
gearing red-bordered black epaulets from 4 converted boxcars,, 17 flatcars
,And 1 boxcar, which had arrived from the direction of Forst Zi_r ,, at about
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I Augusts Eighteen armored personnel carriers and troops ring red-bordered
6., At about 900 a.m. on 22 July, it colmnn of about trucks 1 field kitchen; .30
3 to , motorcycles and several armored scout cars 50X1-H
passed through Krernmenm At a u pom,
on 27 Jul a shipment of rocket aunchers about 30
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trucks 3 to 4+ jeeps, geld 'l itche:x
Maup''
proceeding toward
7 ~ At about 420 p.mo on 29 July,, 9 x100-am AT girxss 10 rime movers, 7 boxcar of ds
` d kitchens and about 10 trucks
-t' troops, I
Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m, on 26 July, a train without engine,, carrying 9
rocket launchers, 15 railroad carloads of a uni.tion and baggage,
15 boxearloads of troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery
insignia,, and 30 soldiers wearing black-bordered blue epaulets with air force
insignia,, was seen at the Koenigswusterhausen railroad station.
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Wolmirstedt on 20 Jul
division which, accordin to reports on transportation, went from Jena to
Gds i ecs D.3v were entrained. They probably were tank firing details of. the
Comment tank units of the 20th50X1-H
to weapons and barracks installation,,
25th. Brig which
to t1tengr?abow for firing r~racticeiq.,
the units,, according
belonging to the
probably traraafered
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{ Dom ent. The return of the units of the 283d (?) Gds How Arty Regt,
ode th i n Kett (US) and the 41st RL Bn (US) of the let Mews Div,
t;Mich9 on 24 Jam. had been
entrained for Jueterbogg had previously been indicated 50X1 -H
The -battalion, however,, had been carried in Altes Lager and not in the
Adler Kaserne a
0omMe t. Probably arrival from the USSR of factory-new.rocket launchers.
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Between 22 and 2-4 July, three shipments of rocket launchers entered the
8eav-1et Zone of Germany via Frankfurt/Oder. Sedan elongs to the 50X1-HUM
1,st Mecz Div4
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the shipment 1,iont
Comment,, on 27 July, a rocket launcher unit of the Fourth Gds Metz 50X1 -HUM
Irv? r may have transferred to Altengrabow for firing practices o The
is new.
Corment
Aiten ^abow I
~.7,, the Fourth n Nee z entrained units
.J' to 41he s 'ecz Army.
presumably belong,
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