GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200660008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RlTTznr IT_ Mr T f~ n
;OUP TRY Austria (Soviet Zone L --
General Military Information
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DATE PREPARED 14 December 1953
rafter the arrest of
Beriya IMVD guards and iM-VD
traffic police in Moscowp Leningrad, Kiev and other large towns had been
replaced by personnel of the Soviet Armye in political indoctrinations
Benue was accused of having released the most dangerous enemies of the
people to ingratiate himself with the western powerso
the morale I was low and
soldiers were often drunk. Three offi--ers were demoted for d:runkness,;
and another officer was punished with 15 days of solitary confinement on
the same charges and was handed over to the main guardhouse in Liesing
(0 49/X 38) the morale was poor because the soldie:25X1
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were tired of serving abroad
propaganda among the soldiers that a true patriot would return
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fatherland unwilling to work and just wishing to earn easy money.:
on 3 November 19539 an order permitted officers to
take along their dependents from the USSR to Austria.,
Kravnhankn (fnu) is carried. as corns.nd,'.ng officer o he MT,TAL.U.ona
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29M MLA The tank unit in Goetz4!nd oball was identic l with the
55th Unk Tng Bn of the 13th Gds Meez l)iv Gds Lieutenant Colonel
'Ihe division has been r e p e a t e d l y o :sera ar?.
confirmed sutordinate to trite III Mtz Rifle Cor s in the Uzh erode-Bere-_ovo
area Carpathian 14D,
Corunento The present report cor?firms the assumption that a canton-
ment near Kaiser:steinbruch was processing point for dischar ees and d.stri-
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repatriation movement from 1Jilfleinsdgrf as loading station since at out late
October 1953 has also been confirmed again by the present report9
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