GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600410007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, Between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on 23 August 1953, motor vehicles seen In 'fiehe,
en route to. and from the Lossa troop training grounds
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included river cross ngs, took place on the Unstrut River in the i`Fetnleben
area,
3. On 22 unust a train carrying 35 trucks mounting AA machine guns and including
1 sedan, 4.
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field kitchens and about 150 troops, the latter on xcars,y was seen en
route toward Stettin, coming from Jueterbog,3
25X1 4? On 22 August, 2' trucks, 1 ambulance, 2 field kitchens, 6 x 76-mm AA guns,
1 sedan and 8 boxoerloads of troops were entrained in .:7ueterbog Altes Lager.
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5e At 4:45 pore, on 22 August, a train of an undetermined number of flatcars
carrying about 15 to 20 trucks with van-like superstructures of sheet metal,
3 x 2 x 2.5 meters, and towing small one-axle trailers, which, source
believed, mounted engines or compressors,, passed through the Kolzenburg
railroad; station proceeding toward Jueterbog,
On 26 August, 19 trucks and
9 armored .out cars were detrained in Luck:enwal e
25X1 7. At 2:20 p.m. on 21 August, a train of 4 boxcars, each occupied by about 35
soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets;, 7 flatcars with sideracks
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and 76-mm AA guns left Jueterbog toward Wuetermark, 7
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in Auguste several major exercises, whi :h
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4 In late Aug?.zst, . camp which was occupied by about
300 to 1,000 troops and was located northwest of lioenigsbr?ueck. It further
included 12 T-34 tanks, including Nos 500 and ? 501, 6 four--par?eled AA
guts, o x 35-ran AT guns,, two dug-.!in tanks, u prime rzovers, I medical tent,
1 large tent and 2 small tents.
2 Coar ent, The engineer units of the XIX Ods l tz Rifle Corps returned
to the corps training area from .Dessau--11ken in mid-August.
25X1 3s Comsm ent.. Possibly a shipment of headquarters units of l:he Itird Gds
Macs ,Army to the Angernuende training area.
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from duuonsdorf to liathenotiit,
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a uni., of the Third
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7. CommentPossibly the train to I3alde3rzslebest
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25X1 8?1 Comm ec According to a sketch 1 1 the camp,, which is reported
for the first time, is located in the woods bet ,el.en Clauschwitz, Babr?a and
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