MILITARY INFORMATION FROM FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003901260006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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3aPIC,.. ~. .~~` 1it_ryInfcrM&rtion from 'rsrkfurt/Odes
EVALUATION-
DATE OF C
DATE OBTAINED
REFERtNaCES._..._.:....,.
f', GEC . .s ..,_..ENCLOSUJRES (NO. &, TYPE)-
,EMARKS~...
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vidual. T-34/85 tanks were seen re'turning recur -ably f'rok-r p- .?ac c,
X rsa.rrkfurt/Oiler was occtmiec3. by an estimated 600 troops, Soldiers o~',eer veil
L. Between 14 axed 26 February 1954n part No 1 of ' Tie F.cofbn unr Pr e in
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inataTh.. tion. A depot, o :cupied by about 150 mon wearing P.ec'~~. o dered
crimson epaulets without 3. ~aiuc hWof~se vice insignia was ppax ently in sect)
No 2 c f the installa_ticri, which was separated from section No ? by a road re zce
and had the entrance on Eirrrbauxru ucahionvre ul
2 During the period of observation, the Ziethen Y6 ,,;erne on Koperr:ikus
3'-Xraose quartered an ustin;ated 1,200 to 1,500 tarn troop:., One Lieuten nt
Colonel (Axis) Babayev (frru) was identified.
a tank unit. One Lieutenant Colornel. Kiir:sovsk.i (fr. u) scen,e;d to have "been 41'5e
commanding officer.
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w e served as depot for medical equi.prnent, Truck
was identified there?
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1,5000 troops. Colonel. Platonov (friu) presuz'rabl_y was in cc;rra;cnd:,
50 Houses o 48 and 49 and 249 on Stalin Alice were being reconditioned,. The
houses were occupied by a medical unit of about 50 soldiers, exc.pt fc
house Pa
'21c hi 3
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Between 14 and 27 February,, the Artillerie Kaserne in Frankfurt/bees
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was occupied by an estix ted 800 soldiers who wo:ae red-bordered. biE.ek epaulets.
Six x 7602 urn AA guns were perked at the northern edge of the billeti
ng area.
Motor vehicles were identified
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The B aelow Kaserne q rtered about 500 men wearing red-bordered black epaulets.,
Ten x 57-mra AT guns and 10 x 762 rmn AT guns were counted in the yard, P':oto r,
v? llicl e ~I was ide ntifi_rid _
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25 YEAR
RE-REVIEW
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8. 10-,e t i.chhorn Xaserne quartered. at;out 3CC soldiers wearing t 1.ack-
i.o:rd.e:red crirsoti epaulets . , o training activity was noticed On 17 an
s'a'_ I'eLr. tuxry.,
quartered about 750 sold.J.ers who wore
The a;.l xi
'Sa 'a`Y'e iinf~ela ,tdl: b '~ : ,SEpt'le
red.?Lordered t.l_ack etxauie ts. The unit was equipped with not less than
50 T-34 tank and JSU?i52 `r gums-,. Tank
were identi :ied. i:otor vehicle vae identified.
:t.O,, On 17 February, 3S-.2 ---ankreturncd to the horn Kaeerne, crrtlnr
from the direction of I?erken.dorf. On 24 Fe'rruar?y, about 20 soldiers
wearing re& Lordered black ep_~is lets and cerrying s htr achine -tans VVi
entrenching tools x rc,hed to the inst..llation frog the direction. of Roseu
s fex: rotor vehicles wo-e ecaersf;afied
. . r3 NO training activity was noticed in the Zietiien Kaserne on 14, 18 and 24 2
:rear; r, On 24 February, 2 '17-34 is raks were parked in front of the ari.iory,
12 c On the afternoon of 27 February, two trains of 20 boxcars each car; yin;,
t oops, 20 trucks 4 x 85-mm, kA guns and 1 field kit-
chen were leaded at 'rankkfurt/Odes railroad station and d spa-tched toward
ssen at 4;'30 a 6 p.i respectively',
7 ? ,> I? rort 3 to 6 _ .an o on 4 z trek: s a train of 20 boxcars with troops and 26 fl_a.t-
, ea.e..'+.eracks was unloaded - in I ?~ nk tut t~'Or~'.er. The wk:a_pr t i ttc .s.sdeci
5 trucks opt 1:30 pm. the sar e days a train of 20
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.ox r s with troous. ~> x 37-rn AA, 6,Lms and 40 trucks, co, inn f"ror~ Ott us,
da..n1: reneir shops an Ck L rters for trap dent of.ficersi2
The e j~Iaen sfheL ) is occupied by artillery
units rather than tart units. Lieutenant Colonel Baba rev (znu)' is held as
Aiik I egt of the 7th Gds Il4ecz Div carried
officer of the 2 ~3th Gds
01.+, the insta".2e Mona Lieutenant Colonel (1.i.roveki (f nu) is known as supply
. cer of +he r,',tb Gds IN `lank SP Iseat, of the division, and Colonel h`laV nov
f.ma> ss officer of the 25th .: fecz Re it of the division. The strength
; t;a:~ a tea o_' I a.c ra rh s 6 through 11 are too low in some in. tartees0
rCorment. The, H) uer Ka.W erne houses clothing do pot, motor vehicle
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on 27 February, medium LAA units of
ALA Div L__]were loF,ded_ r nrl trars f
s to Wuntrow o ; Two shipr_nts with units
t e ,d A 'vision have been unloaded on 4 ?;h. It is
., !e tha these e:Lerents returned- from exercises in the hat ~e Erend ass a,
where other components of the IV Arty Corps from Rath.enow and fot sdar had
.w,o f`ar' i.csir ated
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