MILITARY INFORMATION FROM RUDOLSTADT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200560001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military Information from Rudolstadt
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8 December 1953
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1. On 23 October l953 , . the unit s-tetioned in tht P:- .n7. wur:en nerhe in 25X1
Rudolstadt returned to the i11e,Adlation, 0 i .,6 October, 20 to 25 x AA g
were cleaned in the barracks yard. The 13 x 85-mm AA guns previously observed were
seen in the open area in front of the in;sta..U.ationc On 29 October, 90 `Z;roope
received individual d--ill in the barraok:3 rard. About 250 to 300 Croup practioed
at the obstacle course in th, meadow cppoa L. the railroad station? i 7i inv ;c1rol
was held in the barracks yard. On 7 Novembnr.r, an estimated 150 . offic:ar and 2.0C0
troops, were seen during a rol..i call in the s adow near the r -siirord i_l ion, `thtn
the troops Is 170 officers and 1,200 FPM went tc the
farina en Kaserne. motor vehicles
e two gutted i__ ge in e south section . c= he
installation were "i ng recoad itioned.a
25X1 2u Between.26 October and 12 November. the Flak Keserue was occvni.. e; to
aVacity, Sefitries observed core red-bordered black epaulets with ar ,., D _1 er-r insi n .
On 26 October, sevoral 76.2-4= kT guns were seer in the barracks yard., On 7
November,, 35 to 40 officers and 700 to 750 entered the Flek_ Kaserpe. cmii. ' from
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3. Between 26 October and 12 November, the fo?,YUer revenue office bias occupied
to capacity. Sentries seen worn red-bordered black epaulets. 1 out 20 to 25
officers and about 300 troops entered the :gnstallation on 7 November, returning
from the above mentioned roll call F_ I
4. The 12 to 14 four.-story buildings, each with 6 apartments, at Sedan P atz, which
had been relinquished by the Soviets 8 weeks ago, had again to be vacated prior
to the return to the roost of the units stationed there. Three generals were
observed at the buildings.
~_ ~Caeasnerat. Headquarters and headquarters units of the XXVIII Ode Mtz Rifle
Corps were absent from the post after 7 October and participated in the mar1eu'3
of, the Eighth Gds Arnw. November, the unite can be
carried in their installations i.e. the Prins Eugen Kaserne can be carried as being
died by the 497th AAA Rest (US), confirmed there by the AA murex
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the Flak Kuaerne by unidentified headquarters units the 880th Engr Pn was
repeatedly observed thereE 11 and
the revenue office by the XXV i Gda M $ e Corpea
an to Karl Marx Platz, lnnnodiately
y of the revenue office icers ets have been located there for
several years. The confiscation of additional buildings is believed to
result from the expected arrival from the U= of officers' dependents"
which was reported from other posta-Y
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