SOVIET TROOPS IN BADEN, TRAISKIRCHEN, KAGRAN AND BRUCK ON THE LEITHA RIVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500480008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICAT! ON
)lustria
COUNTRY .__.. _-__... ,_..a.,,..
Soviet Troops in Baden, Traiskirchen, Kagran and truck on th, e i . tha R:lv=er?
EVALUATION
?a\ T E OF CONTENT
D,'~TE OBTAINED
Pi,,GES ENCLOSURES
L)23553
DATE 1954
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This is UNEVALUATED
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Information__.,
1. Motor vehicles observed on 16 November 1953 at the bull r" a ..gs o n t Liheate' ^cua~:,s
and the Sta? in ring in Baden (0 49/ 37) which were by :;enty ios, cai -a
=?ed,bordered black e aul.et 4 included sedan
Jeep
.ulet e ar
.y
driven F., r soldiers Frei::.: a.n
3s e, a civilian driver; truck
driven by sc1diers were?i_n
25X1
25X1
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lets; jeep ~ driven by a soldier wearing black xrder< d. Mack e au:lr .s;
driven by a soldier wearing talaok.s~ nc e ..: x a :, s .: :s; Motor
0e d.'iv en by 25X11
soldiers wearing red. orde 'ed black epaule s; reap ar:i can e + a .on? i e 25X1
wearing black-bordered red epaulets;; and sedan or ven b -,,,,r a: so i r i e wear-
ing red-bordered black epaulets . Three we you carriers , b, to ucsks and. `/ tank trucks
were stored in the motor-vehicle storage sheds of the. Mc_' aenta1 c si ,e which was
guarded by sentries wearing partly red-.bordered black epaulets and pa-,, ly black- 25X1
-bordered black e islets. Weapon carrier ar;..d truck ;oi..h c -five" 25X1
by soldiers wearing black-bordered black e .+u ea ,, left the es ace. l.., 1ic:ut,enant
colonel and two -majors, all wearing black-bordered black epaulets, entered the Doblhof
castle, whose area stored six trucks and three lee s and which was guarded by sentries
wearing black-bordered black epaulets . T ?uxck driven b a soldiay wearing 25X1
black-bordered black epaulets, left the castle and.
troops had returned the Post.
2. On 16 November 1953, 16 AT guns and 3C tacks were stored in the area of the former
federal correction house in T aiskixchena (0 49 3-1). Imprints of tracks were observ-
ed on the approach road. Some motor-vehicle storage sheds were r?eccnstrue tcl by
soldiers wearing blue-bordered black epaulets. Truck driven by a soldier
wearing black-bordered black epaulets, and jeep d : i:~en by a soldier wear- 25X1
i;1 redbborder:d black epaulets, left the insta, a_t on. The large radio st ticn indi-
cated no charges. The troops had apparently returned fro=.n fall maneuva.r:a. 25X1
3. On 20 November 1953, 16 armored vehicles and 15 tank trucks
Two SU-249 SP guns left the barracks installation. Jeeps
driven by soldier; wearing red-bordered black ep,ulets,
sedans
driven by 25X
a. soldier wearing red-bordered black epaulets with tank insignia, and truck
driven by a soldier wearing red-bordered black epaulets, were observed
at the instca? lation.
CLASSIFICAr iON sEC ;T';
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SECT.
no J, ,s -+. b. irq- s O l raC Is . rotor ve. 7.C es Observed at ores c aps
?rJst; was guarded by sentries wearing; red bordered black epatale is, included
]an(- tr d:~ driven by soldiers wearing red-bordered 25X1
AS egaulats, Jeep driven b a soldier wearing black bordered red
V driving-school truck driven by a soldier wearine. red-border- 25X1
r.i black rapaaulets, and ambulance driven by a soldier wearing re?bor--
?.t:re black e ulets. Soldiers wearing black bordered red epaulets left and enter-
ed the new kome b ~raas warded by a sentry wearing black-bordered red
epaulets. Sedan driven by a soldier wearing red--bordered. black epaulets,
was parked at tb s .ng. `fr 25X1
I.. I G?i _ent. The motor vekicle, observed it Paden ?airy belong to Offices
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An rani tts
of the 0 ntra.l. Group, except some which are belie-Ted to belong to
-t.:b e 95th Gds Utz .fle T-iv, the .lath Gds A cz Div a the 23d AAA Div.
_ .-IOo - . The present info .tion indicates that the 45th s Mecz '- e t, which
was at the Dos11er heJ xraJ,nii g camp last s nmer. returned to its statio in 25X1
`. aiskia chen in a ut ni d-Oc Uoher. It is doubted that 1.6 AT guns should i eye tree,.,
stored in the area of the foggier Federal correction house. The two motor chicle
a umbers report d f ram Traiskirchen belong to the 13 a_ ode P~ec Div. 25X1
Go ai' . The repot t;erl ~,ao ,car?ve iicl_m belrsn to the 13th Gds Mecz D.v 25X1
ans> t teAir force and thus prsn,