MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE LETZLING HEATH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700840003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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the barracks installation on the northeast 25X1
err 0 ers a er w s, about 80C EM and 14 women
on 18 :; eutember 195:: off l cers : Co ?. onel Nikolayev (fnu) ,
comman-ping officer cf the unit stationed in the east section of the installation;
Captain Potapov (fnt), motor transport officer; and Senior Lieutenant .Mikha
Gerazi :motiv, secretary of the Komsomot_s and AAA 'x ~.. 25X1
the e::ist and west sections of the installation
2. On 23 September, sev,ra1 columns, totaling about 7C trucks with AT guns, howitzers,
mortars and about 700 troops wearing red-bordered -black a .t e were
seen "'n
route toward foll e coming from Gard e . en. 25X1
Between 9 p.m. and 10 p.zm. on eptember, U.
light armored scout cars, 10 half-track armored personnel carriers, about 40 trucks,
including some Cowin 76.2 76.2-mix AT guns, and a total of about 500 troops were seen
en route toward the 4euplanken wood camp, coming from Neuhaldensleben. On 28
September; columns of 5 to 8 zgotor vehicles, totaling about 80 motor vehicles,
passed through Neuha.idensleben, coming from the direction of Magdeburg and pro-
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wore whit?: brassard-, with the letter P. - - 25X1
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e night an 27 September, columns were seen en route toward Gardelegen..
Troops were detrained in Letzlingen. 2
1 ?a~_~m{ent. Tho barracks installation on the northeast exit of Hillersleben can
be carried r elements of the 19th Gds Mess, Div after 10 September.
The information on the unknown Senior Lieutenant Mikha
=erazimov, to a certain e:-;tent, confirms the location in 1iillersleben of the
2503d Gds AAA Eegt~~ of the division. 25X1
2.. Comment, Thee c d to the north section of Letzling Heath which,
.involved units of the Third Shock Army and the 25X1
Fourth Gds Mecz Army, with the latter exclusively observed with the traffic'con-
trol details., strengthen the assumption that major. fall maneuvers were to take
place in the north section of Letzling Heath in late September.
Reports on transportation tended to indicate that units of the 10th Gds Tank Div
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