KVP IN THE EAST-BERLIN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300820001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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L. Between source determined that the assembly area of the MVP
In Frie r: c s r e e NO been consider,.bly enlarged. It extended east of the : ?'reskow
.thee and north of the Ru ::elsburg-Biesdorf railroad line as far as north of the
estate. Source estimated that 3,000 to 4,000 troops and 200 to 250 veUeles were
assembled there. Troops observed had dark blue, red and black service color.:, on 25
JuIv a conference of senior X'%? officers was held in this restricted area. 4,bout
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KW In the ast?-berlin. area
.5 sedans were seen in front of the entrance et about 11 a;,m.l
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installation appears to be occupied to capacity by an estimated , men,
humorous officers with red collar patches were seen at the KVP office on 3 a eller-
tutrasse and 6 to 7 sedans but no trucks were seen in the yard of the offdct_,
. At about 6 p.m. on 28 July, two trucks, etch occupied by about 20 KVFS, entered a
KXP installation on Stralauerstrasse. The MVP's were armed with submachino f. ins
One of the trucks had come from the direction of the Jannowitz Bruecke (bridge)
and the other from the direction of the Iiuehlendamm Bruecke.1
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4. On the following M details were observed in East-Berlins
`Ewen y :eve .FZVks armed with carbines and submachine guns in the former Olin ourg Ahoi"
inn at the intersection of Brunnenstrasse and bernauerstrasse.
were seen with the detail.-
on Invaliclenstrasse at the Oberster Ger_chtshof
of the D]E. (supreme court of the East-German republic) I
twenty-five :KVPs in a shcp on Bornholmerstrasse, about 20 meters from the sector
.aundary
thirty-five KVPs in the former cheese factory on Isingstrasse, Treptow; and
about 80 to 100 KVPs,, including some with red and the others with black c _Iar
patches and armed with carbines, submachine guns and rapid-fire rifles,. In a
school of RRheinsbergerstrasse.
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The employment in Berlin of newly arrived KCVP was p.rr6:-,rI fig;41y
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the Armeegruppe Nord.
K VP units were vxansferred from area Of
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