MILITARY INFORMATION FROM ORANIENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000640003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY R et.~rn~nv
CLSxIFICATI0N
r ilitarv . nfornat on f ?or Oranienburg
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DAT"E OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED .
REFERENCES
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'by an officer were driving e
~' piles on the cast b-a-li, of ti ,c can-al tE ;~~~een.
7haels nn Strasse and the railroad line,, The installation was c ?cupied
as previously by an estit,,sated 1,500 troops, who wore red-bordered slack
epaulets with tank, artillery, signal and motor transport in.siia. Indi-
in the morning, about 3C0 trcops left the instsilat,ion for he culture
house. east of the nienburg freiLht station Truck and s da.n 25X1
occupied by 1 Soviet officer and I FDJ member were seeni}ere?
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a u On 6 (arch, the west section of the Sachsenhausen concert-grat'i'n cane (4681/82)
was occupied by an estimated 1,000 troops wearing red-'bo adored bl~t e
with tank and Y;otor trans A insiwnia.
5J U0 mo to F~; 50 a ,m,; An undetermined nunnber off' troops wearing red.-border?eu
i lack epaulets, nost1y Iron the Veisse Stadt settlement and some from the
Sachsenhausen concentration cam,, on 4 boxcars boxes and billy ting equipment
d 3 T-34 M-.3 axnored ersoaLne1 carriers 25X1
lance tank Y.ru.' repair ,sho
cars wizn sideraeks.
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m?estricted area (4683) on 2 bo scare and 20 tanks on 2C f at_ 25X1
Loadings observed in Oranienburg an 5 t/Parch included:
aom" to 7:10 avr. An undetermined number of troop-. frcrz the Stadt
8 }"x.13 rocket
....aunc. sa Je. mot' cycles and 2 field k tchtf.`ns on 31 flatcars with siderack~;,,
in the Weise Sttadt settlement ?i683 - ri :ou o troo
s su erYriced
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s rr The n 'orr,atiar~ aonfi?~z,s revl.z~las reports cn t ?:c,s or<
tionp according to which p on 5 i a.rch, 5 troop trc:ins went frott, Qrn-i xnr; urg
to the treining .are. of the 25th Tenk [.1v cut east of 1'ueritz: ?.asp
Accordin ; to weapons observed, units enttra. ned included elements of the
1702d AAA Refit, the 53d Tfit;rel En,, the 16th Gc3s flL Bra and te:nks of the ,erniden-
of .ed is nk training ba. ttelion v It is doubted that the troops should h w.v
left the Weisst Stadt settlerent for a suffrev caret so one vipme nt :Grom
Netseband to Oranienhur?g w. ,s observed after the cor..pletion of the cmerci
on 11 arch
a
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J Corr ent . ^n V 1 rc
rocket launchers of t