MILITARY INFORMATION FROM KOENIGSBRUECK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003701040009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY East! Ger xtng ~... . _ .....a
Military lnt'orrntior from Koenigsbrueck
EVALUATION,.,
DATE OF CONTENT.
DATE OBTAIN?D -
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PA;ES 2
..ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)_--'
This is UNEVALUATED Information
unat the officers of the tank unit: had .eeen s-t tioned An the
Hermann' erg rg sere prior to 1953. 2 Jannuary, about 450 troops weariaig k?ed-born-
dared black epaulets with tank insignia were lined up `for "a r-ol 'call "I the camp 25X1
area and were addressed by a colonel. On' 4 January, T-34/85? tank was Cleaned -aria
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ed in front of a repair shop and another 4 T-34/85 tanks were peen through the open
doors of a tank shed.- Eight prime movers and 2 ;guns were seen" in wont of a r; ehic1+
shed and 8' --_-,- 85-mm AA guns were observed through the open- doors of a repair
shop. On 7_ January, about 15 trucks, each towing a 37-aunt AA gun and etch occupied by
8 to 12 troops wearing red--bordered black epaulets, were seen enteringyNeuss Lager. At
about 5-P.m., on S January, reports of AT guns and, , presemaably, AA guns were heard from
On 30 January 1954, Neues Lager, Xoenigsbrueck, was occupied by about 2,500 troops
rearixg red-bordered black epaulets and about 500 to 700 troops weerin ? red--b rdered
black epaulets with tank insignia. 25X1
follo.ngg'officers in the camps Oca one Arty auehenkov (phonetical spelling fnu),
c mnanding officer of the camp and de ut of General Govaronink; Colonel (Arty)
Grichenkov (phonetica3 spelling) (fnu , deputy coma mnder of the camp; Colonel (Arty)
Shabovak (phonetical spelling) (fnu), chief of the pollt,eec-tion, I! or Ribuka (fnu),
supply officer -and . successor of Major Zinoyev (fnu); Captain (Arty) l ralov (phonetical
spelling) (fnu), administrative officer; Lieutenant Ivanov (phonetical s slling) (fnu),
artillery instructor. and 'Lieutenant Letvinaf (phonetical spelling) (fnuu) of the ' .nlc 25X1
the dir tion of the training area At about b puma, 2 trucks
Between 1:30 p.m. and p.m., reports o avy artillery were heard from the training
area. At about 9 aeon. on 30 January, a column of 7 . tricks each occupied-by 10 to.15
troops-wearing red-bordered- b3.ack epaul+ . --left the t8 p toward the training area
of a motor vehicle shed. On 18 January, 4 Z-34/85 tanks 25X1
left the carp toward the training area. After, a s ed alert, on 19 January, ZDA 1
several columns left the camp toward the training area`. They included numerous trucks,
occupied- by troops carrying full field pack and towing 12 x 57-nm AT guns, 8 x 37 vn
AT guns--and 4 x 85-mm AA T-34/85 tanks and '6 ~ix-wheel armored personnel 25X1
carriers. a major exercise, vhibh also involved units from Dres-
den, had been conducted by a general.. Between 9 a.m. and noon on 20 January, reports of
heavy arfi lery,AT' guns, and ligh;> to gurus were heard from the direction of the train-
ing area. Artil` ery aid' rocket I unchers held firing totices in th training area
at about 100 p.m. and between , respectively. At ''About 4130 p.m., 25X1
6 ammunition vehicles left the' :gip toward the training area.
and ww3ng 57.a= 4u guns, were seen in the ins la i anuary, 8 prime
movers were een in front 25X1
25 YEAR
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L9SM,ml. The 4th a AAA Div is a pain confirmed in Nc y r ,cr
to a 40th Ud Tank Re t From Dresden which, howeva r cannot be cr,n4'irmr
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The n jor exercise of the 11th Gdg Tank Div which appare a L1
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at Koenigshrueck in mid4anw rv = also account Afar the presence in N u ar
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of tank units from Dresden. 25X1
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