GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

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CIA-RDP80-00810A003200660008-6
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S
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2
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December 22, 2016
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December 18, 2009
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8
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December 14, 1953
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REPORT
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25X1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003200660008-6 __jfo~ Al CLASSIFICATION RlTTznr IT_ Mr T f~ n ;OUP TRY Austria (Soviet Zone L -- General Military Information ~~IALt.JATION. :)ATE OF CONTENT ))ATE OBTAIWE ,EFERENCES .AGES ~EMARKS__ ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE). r._J EPORT 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rafter the arrest of Beriya IMVD guards and iM-VD traffic police in Moscowp Leningrad, Kiev and other large towns had been replaced by personnel of the Soviet Armye in political indoctrinations Benue was accused of having released the most dangerous enemies of the people to ingratiate himself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 a were tired of serving abroad propaganda among the soldiers that a true patriot would return home and work for his country, and that reenlisted men were soldiers without 25X1 (I ASST W ATI0 N qh!r. Pv-r/rnmTT?nT... IT.. s . O1 TcTAAL, S ONLY 25 YEAR RE-REVIEW) Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003200660008-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/18: CIA-RDP80-00810A003200660008-6 SECRET'/COVIROI1 1t.SmOFFICI LS ONLY 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 25X1 25X1 25X1 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- oint for newly arrived rep1:s ca rents o The 25X1 p p butin repatriation movement from 1Jilfleinsdgrf as loading station since at out late October 1953 has also been confirmed again by the present report9 30 F____ Cormen The motion picture point at Tribuswinkel was previously 25X1 , `'I? __ - dministration of uoliti on' - th i t t depot e e o na which is subord 25X1 the Central Grou p of Forcesd 25X1 SECRET/CONTROL - UaSs.OFTICTILS ONLY Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/18: CIA-RDP80-00810A003200660008-6