MILITARY INFORMATION FROM GOTHA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000650004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/05/29: CIA-RDP80-00810A004000650004-2
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EVALUATION
DATE VF CONTENT
DATE OBTAIN
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~Coaatnent.. The departure from- Gotha of units. of the 5%1 Gd t R':fle lily is 25X1
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1. Between 24 Fobs - ry, grad 1 March 1954, - the let Kaserne in Got s. a a s a 0 Y)iCt by
about 1,200 troops who wore black-bordered red epauia. and 0 O troops who v ore
black-b?rd' 'od black aa~~1.- w
red-bordered black ul~ a--A,
nal or engineer i siania. On 2 1,11ar?ch a convo or ,bou' `'0 .; rucks 25X1
Aov0d WIT a- -
u r 4? I o wore ac ~ ordered red epat ts. G ;cal s.~a -a{ r l
57 mAT 9.-MV 6G dIi ti
mot Vehicle c It -of rai n 25 trucks yowin ;
..w iy
by 6 sedans sndr-10 jeeps-,# r"1tior to the, h ginning df c , ? v ore a sc no-
iii C t 2 . quar ~:?er?ed about 800 Uo }a vho vice ? be z?"
tha.tr Upon. t ea dap;a ture_o.f several columns .between 2 and & Mca.achb the two 'nsta:l-
lation :;ere on part a11y= occupiede-
2.- On 12 uh a column of about 30 -truces Asith la_ 4 '.i~d
W'es ei from: the direction of -G-nthia an -yproceeded :to d a,
406n-conduoted in the ? Kindel-0hr r-aa ; .rm =
l eonrg cb d with a ?arse-scale exex ciige Ei ntr
[This is UNEVALUATED Information[
6 shunts ro -Na1. cmr, tx
the 57th C s ,M z-Rifle v- 'Went to the; 'Oh r re , .ate;; '
to ilechZ, staedt on 7 and 8 March. Further or , 'l ahipmu-it-i-tent- -to .0 ir4
drug shioments from Altenbu g to Ohz draf. , ,Acorc . ng to :nom i ~~ :a 2 of the,
present report, elements of the 128th We Gun Arty Regt of t11 57th (Ida - Mw, Rifle
Div possibly returned to their post from this exercise on 12 March.
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