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MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE KINDEL TRAINING AREA
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CIA-RDP80-00810A002900150005-8
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 19, 2016
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2006/11/09: CIA-RDP80-00810A002900150005-8
COUNTRY
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CLASSIFICATION_':
Germard~
... -.._-.-_REPORT
Milit +i j Information from the Kinde Training Area
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED,.
REFERENCES-
LDATE PREPARED 29 October 1953
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REMARKS__.
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A shi nt of 18 rocket launcher
140 trucks carrying anmxun on a x equ. ,'-Mat
:z., .radio x _ack,
a ors supply truckr- about oaf'"ic,}ers
and EM were detrained in Mechterstee t after 4 r,.ma on 20 p ember 1953. The trained vehicles left toward Kinder. In the following order: alternat.1jr 2 roc v r,
launchers and 1 ammunition trucks rsith the other vehicles following Motor a: air s
gnan nn thA road from n. traininy, u t
20 Between 23 and 29 Septembers repoi?ts of rocket Atie, -ere daily heard f?om
the Kindel training area between .1. p.m,, and 6 pome Major infantry exercises With
armored support were daily held r*rth of Highway No 8/;... Practice r.=it`.;. v,-Ls
used, and dummy building were Bret;ted about 800 meters north of Highway No 3L.:
A fire was observed there almost -3very nights while light artillery pieces fl-red
with high-explosive shells, Three large one-story wooden buildings and 5 uande~_a-
ground bunkers, in which artillery and infantry ammunitioi wav stored, were oa~
ted about 150 meters north of the Kindel cantonment. The bunkers were guarl"10 b;T
a double sentry each and the low,'ooden buildings by two double sentries eooot
1. [1Cowment, The train is believed to have been fror~ Al~~,c:--
gra wa It probably carried a bat`..alion of -,he 94th RL Regt US of the XX Gd3
Mtz Rifle Corps tenf.xabows where it had ar r1i ,-id
on 14 September. a
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