MILITARY INFORMATION FROM WEISSWASSER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700610007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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and. 6 Se'a~ter r 1953
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-ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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inning 15 September;; Soviet units practiced at the Weissuaasaer artillery` firing
range.. Source believed that the so .dier , only temporarily used he range for fir..
;.zng with live ammunition with tanks, AX g= s and mortars. Reports of tanks and AT
guns were heard in Weisswasser on :.5 and 16 Se ptcmber~ At 5 a,ma, on ?.5 Sept mberv
Imprints of track..lalfing vehicles were seen ira Weisswasseg , ZICdM from the direc-
Lion of Snremberg toward Nochte At 6 a .m" on 1": r 10 truci?zs including
0r each towing one mor- 25X1 B
0 NMI carrying so ers were seen between Huskau and Waisswassor,, The cola ran
was again observed at 9 p.m.,, coming .from tho direction of Nochton and proceeding
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toward C`At 'I0 R
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each :owing --mm AT gun and carrying
.suxulers wearing re rd-red black epaulets and eouip }; d with submachine guns
--a-.,s, from ~bochtori d n cscee~decl to as fi S orenbe -Cy. Jeep II drove from Weis -
sssar toward Nochten, 25X1 B
25X1 A to the 9th Mecz Div- whope 'bulk
u e at .resent, Other elements of the division w err, seen In
Cottbus by another source on 15 :i ptc ibex,:
t:ssliev?-d that these units :3erforred f irin.ig 9 T it is 25X1 A
done previously ra.otice in ,/e.asg rassez as they had
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