EMPLOYMENT OF VP AND KVP UNITS FOR SEARCH OPERATIONS IN THE SPREEWALD AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000420009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1acious lookincT ;ej.?so*Aa bought tiekets to Uckr o at Elsterwerda the mmorning
cf u October. When VPs checked the train in Uckro, ihootirr occurred
-1_r the course of which one VP kommissar was killed and two other Ms's
were wounded., The civilians involved in the fight escaped On
she saire daya a Teach operation involving several thousand Vks and covering
the area near f%:ben in the Luckau Yrcis was started. One man was arrested.
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2. On the e -enirk, of 15 October, a search was initiated from the Uckro?-Ideuhof rail-
road line. A speciall train carrying rare than 6( VPs left Uckro for Rangsdorf.,
At the i ndivifta1 railroad stations on this line VF' details left the train.
1c= the course of this search operation , 1 VP Rat from Cottbus, I Vi Kotrrissar,
and 1 VP Oberwachtmeister were shot dead on 16 October. A total of 12 wounded 25X1
')ersons were turned in to the hospital in Luckau.
3. T ~e seas oh operation continued until 2C October. Five special traits loaded
with VP personnel including 3,CCCC ten who had allegedly come from the Isla.M
of RuegcL r arrived in Uckro. Ten field kitchens were seen on the Ring in Luc"
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ard 12 tore field kitchens on the athletic field.
4. Or. 18 Ccctober, strong VP units employed in the Luebben area. 25X1
The tows and its vicinity ryas being patrolled by patrols in the strangth
of up to five men. The control of passengers was very strict at the local.
railroads'C station. The Vle personnel involved in these operations wore blue
uniforms: and were armed with submachine guns. On 18 October, 60 more VFe arriv--
ed in Jnebben from the direction of Cottbus. They left the town on tracks
toward the autobahn. Sedan 25X1
-nd ambulance were s.1so seen in this convoy.
On 1') October, I I a large-scale search was under
wr-y for five Czechs including a wo n who were trying to escape to West Ber-
lin. The Czechs had killed a VF on the Saxon border. One of the Czechs wee,
allegedly, arrested in"Middle"Germany. He is said to have stated that he and
i-is camr.?ades, Czech officers, were on their way to West Berlin. On 17 October,
the refugees, aUegod17, killed four more VPs in the Koenigewueterhausen area.
u ring the reported period, the Autobahn Circuit of Berlin was being guarded uy
?P sentries armed ' ith carbines an submachine guns. The VP sentries were placed
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6. The morning of 20 October, eight trucks and a total of &G
KVFFe who we is aswrylnL Mold equi t ar 'ware and with crrts3.hes and sub- 25X1
machine die damping abobt 1CC ma~ west of Brand railroad ,tatiotz. K W
double sentries weft placed 200 to 300 meters apart along the raiirce a t-
bankt ent a td in the ed area between Brand ar4 luebben, Tents and camp
f r?ys wars q In the entire a3'oa. At all major railroad stations of the
line loudspe& rs warnod the population against beams of armed agents w
had alre&d r killed several KVPi.
7. On 2C tlctober- the lsterwetda-Betlin railroad line was 25X1
gun sd by 1 personnel after the Qo1ssen railroad station. Between V ahlov and
Saheea3efeld, VP personnel who wore blue uniforms were placed 25 teeters apart
on both aides of the railroad lie,.
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