MILITARY INFORMATION FROM GRIMMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002500700002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/03: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA002500700002-8
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DATE OF CONTENT
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1,, On 2F !?ug ist 1953, the Stra:.sburg Yaserne in Griamna was occupied by about
;.,2Gk0 troops wearing red-bo -dered black epaulets wi':n tank insignia and-9 50X1-HUM
sore. with ,. insitmia, Pt about 7:45 p?m. on 12 August;, 2-
T-43 tanks, en--ered the installation,,
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"ccupied y a general, wa- seen entering the installation? it about 2;30 p 50X1-HUM
each occilp;ed by 15 troop.; wearing red-bordered black epaulets, were seen
leaving the installation toward idurzen. It about 3 p.m,r about 700 to 800'
troops were seen receivi-tg mea~s in -e installation. At about 7 p,m:. on.
19 August, 24 T-43 tanks, which had 50X1-HUM
arrived from the direction of rresden? were detrain a ~e upper railroad
station and left for t'h? Strassburg Kaserneo Tank :,racks
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were identi?j sd~l 50X1-HUM
2, On 28 August, the Elsne; Caserne was occupied by about 250 troops wearing
red--bordered black epar.kets,; including some with ^artillery insi gnia 0 At
and about 150 troops wearing red-bordered blac:c epaulets with artillery 50X1-HUM
-nia, were detrained at the upper railroad station and left for the Elsnez
Kaserne , The unit had arrived from the direction of Dresden,, On 24 August9
a woman lieutenant and 40 un-Alformed women wearing red-bordered black epau-
lets vlath- tank - insignia alighted from a train, whici had arrived frog: the
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direction of ^resden, they left for the Msner Kasecnea
1, On 20August, numerous troops'. including many officers wearing
red-bordered black epaulets with tank or artill-ry insignia? in the area of
the Nagema installation. Sedan occupied by a colonel., stopped in
front oi' the incatallat'?.on, coring from the direction of the Strassburg Kase ne,
4., On 23 August, Captain "Zer:ashkin (fnu),, was determined as supply officer of a
regiment in Crime.
CLASSIFIC4ION
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/03: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA002500700002-8
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