GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE GDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000640006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC General it .tsrv Information from the GDR
EVALUATION
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kt about 3 pm.. on 13 V rch, another rail shipment was
dispatched. No details were learnedo3
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1a At 8:30 a.m. on 10 Narch, a? convoy of about 11 vehicles including 5 rocket
launchers, 1 field kitchen, and 1 ammunition carrier turned o f the toad
at the uthe rii exi of E P werda toward the wooded area, 25X1
Drivers and gun crews wore gas masks
2. Between 10 and 11 a.m. on 11 March, a truck convoy. occupied by troop, wearing
red-bordered black epaulets and steel helmets came from the direction of
Finowfurth and proceeded toward Eberswalde4 The convoy consisted of about
40 trucks -vh icy towed guns, presuraabl 25X1
AT guns of about 70 mm, and carried mortars0 2
3, Troops and materiel loaded at Schoeneweide railroad station on 14 harsh in-
cluded troops on 4 boxcars and 4 JS-3 tanks 2 ZIS-3_ 25X1
field guns, 1 x 120 mr.?a mortar, 8 trucks including 4 with mounted machine guns,
1 workshop leer, truck. 1 and 1 field kitchen on an undetermined number of
flatcars. ~
The train was dispatched at about 11 pdzna
Comment A vehicles of the unidenti-
I3.ecoe eetiaun r regiments e ki ids a'-ems rjnyd Indivis ual exercises
of components of this army have been conducted in the area of the Zeithain troop
training grounds and north of Falkenberg-Uebigau since mid-February.
rmenj, It is possible that units of the Fourth Gds Mech Army returned
by road from the exercise which was held in the area south of Mueritz Lake and
Neuruppin from 6 to 10 11arche
Corrziento The dispatching station of the two shipments supports the
a.ssuraption that the units loaded telonged to those in the y3uhlheide restricted
area which s elements of the 7th "Gds heck - Div
The troops are believed to have left for exercises.
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25 YEAR RE-REVIEW
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