FALKENSEE RESTRICTED AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500630002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Germany
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Falkensee rteetrActed Ares
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JACE-08TAINED__
End of November to 18 Decerber 1953
18 January 1954
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A feanale employee vith thel.f.)cal-1;overnment hoard in Falkensoe ritated
thats at the end of Novf.onbw 1953? anumber of dwellings in Faikensee
wr,uld be requisitioned 2:T:or :kmiet, dependents, while the vacated German
families would be accorndated on Koch Stresse. Informant also said that
the houses e.loro.',- the ncz.thcr ction of Thaelmann Stresses See Strasso
and the residential blocks ;17,Lorip PrornerAsde north of the rat:I:rest:2 station
would be -vacated by Christmas 1953.
2.. According to a runcr cLcu:.itin in Falkensee at the end or 1,Tovember 1953,,
the Soviets. req.A.red 'about 15 houses for their dependents, At the beginning
of! Decmater.i, there were n.4,1,11711 that the Gelman house owners would be allowed
remain in their- roluisitimeei houses and that Soviet dependexts Would
mNe in with them. No Svict. ferflies had appexently arrived in Falkensee
Itp to 9 Deoember. Sourc4& det,fryn..Yled in mid-December that a large duelling
hf..)ufie- between Bredow Stz.as3,71 Eind amen Strasse and 12 other dwellings were
occupied by Soviet dependent 60.410 Soviet officers. wearing redordered-
V.ack eplulets with tanic. 5. nwere observed there on 18 Decer,ber, ?
PalegedlyS additional tvJUE]f?;..7,on Pzk Strasse had to be vacated; however
the evacuatic41 uad not :iret ?,cen effected by 18 December.
During rle first, afiri: :,,,,:eraber 1953,, motor vehicles occupied by Soviet
1.).-"ficers repeatedly &.),SOrved in the former restricted area in Faikensee,
The oiriers inspeetel the 71.16 Cr9 which. wore still vacant. Thera were rumors
sarong thc tan pop1ilat:11. that numerotha Soviet officers dependents would
be quartered in Falkensoe.
4 A Geman who resided near 't.-e,11.11 Strasse in Falkensec stated on 16 December
that .Stalin Ztrasse was again 0,..eupie(2. by Soviets, 1
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At the I-..eginning of Dec,L,trribar,:: a hight-ciatchman stated that. the Soviet
material depot near the reilrea6 statir...?n would be transferred by rail
- to th , factory Luildings o2,T '.,17.e former Bec-lin-Schoerifelder-Industrieworke,
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Commta The information on the recent requisitioning of dwellings
_11 le Falkensee restricted area or on adjacent streets was confirmed.
The reported arrival of Soviet ?Moors diependents is believed to be
correct.
2. Ir-71goment. The materi*A depot mentioned is a Soviet Army d:Ivision
depot. Its transfer has not been confirmed but is believed possble.
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