GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400590010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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General Military Information
DATE OF CONTEN
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ATE PREPARED 7 September 1953
REMARKS-
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about .m. on 30 July 1953, 25X1
44 boxcarloads of troops, attached to a regu_ar re g a ,
passe ro h the Muellrose railroad station .l At 4 p.m. on 30 July,
25 tank cars were seen at the Frankfurt/Oder railroad station. On 30
July, 20 tank c are were sidetracked at the Cottbus railroad station. At
about 3 p.m. on 31 July, 27 tank cars were seen at the Bad Freienwalde
railroad station. they had come from Troeglitz. Twelve
other tank care le Bad r e. enwa a toward north at the same time, At
about 6 p.bin. on-31 July, 20 tank cars were seen at the Frankfurt/Oder
railroad statiom.2 At about 6 pm. on 31 July a freight train which
included a shipment of 4 AA guns, 3 canvas-covered SP guns
I was seen at the Frankfurt/Oder railroad
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2. At about 3:30.a.m. on 12 August, 6 gun barrel trailers and 6 gun motor
carriages, 3 x 122-mm howitzers, 26 prime movers, 4 large trucks with
trailers, 2 field kitchens, 2 sedans, some trailers and about 120 troops
from the Generallfeldzeugm were entrained at the' Brandenburg-
Altstadt railroad station Between
9:50 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on 12 Au gust, the unit entrained on August
was detrained at thin liltstindt. -railroad station d returned to
The trucks were occupied by each about 20 troops. In the evening of the
same day, 18 prime movers and 3 x 122 r.mi howitzers were seen entering. trhe
installation. 4
3. Between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. on 19 August, about 350 troops wearing red-
bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia, 3 prime movers, towing
gun barrel trailers; 3 prime movers towing gun motor carriages of.203-
howitzers- 2 prime movers towing 152-m howitzers, 3 prime movers towing
trailers 2 jeeps, 13 trucks, and 1 field kitchen
were entrained at the Brandenburg railroad station. Troops and materiel had
come from the Generalfeldzeugmeister Kaserne and left toward Genthin. After
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the departure of the troops, the Generalfeldzeugmeister Kaserne was
occupied by 300 to 350 troops. Between 8:20 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on 22
'August, about 350 troops wearin;red-bordered black epaulets with artillery
insignia, 3 prime movers with gun barrel trailers, 3 prime movers towing
gun motor carriages of 203-mm howitzers,, 3 prime movers towing 152-mm
howitzers,
installation was occupied by about 5D troops.
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training activities in the installation during the absence of the troops.
4. On 22 August, 2 x 203-mn howitzers and 1 prime mover were unloaded from a
train of 14 S5-type flatcars, 10 boxcars and 9 flatcars with sideracks at
the Brandenburg-Altstadt. railroad station. The train had arrived from the
direction of Altengrabow. The detrained vehicles left for the Generalfeld-
zeugmeister Kaserne,4
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At about 6:10 p.m. on 13 August, about 25 trucks with 20 x 37 nun AA guns
and- about 120 to 140 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with
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On 5 August, 10 to 20 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets were 25X1
.for the first tune, observed on Hiddensee Island.
only individual soldiers. On 12 August, 10 one-story temporary 5UTIC[Ings
were under construction about 2 km south of Neustrelitz.
Cc~r~r a Probably fuel shipments for the USSR
v ow Arty Brig US . The trains on 12, 16 and 22 August, which carried
elements of the briarade. went to, and returned from, Altengrabow. See
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observed movements of units of the 124th
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information has been received on troops leaving the Wustrow firing range
at that time,
roop units or v
held exercises in the area south of the Bad-Freiennra.1de Eberst alde
railroad line during the month of August a
the AAA un maay belong to the Second and/or s eez Arqj. NO
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