SOVIET TROOPS IN AUSTRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100280002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troops in Austria
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1. On 9 l1aroh 1954, 22 tank gun- barrels. axc:: sr h.ng a man's heigbt., one 37i
in the area of the boa-racks installation in Kagran (P 4.9/X 49). The section of
the installation quartering an AAA unit could not be observed. Two armored
cars with muzzle brakeo and one SP gun without a muzzle brake were under a
.. On 8 March 1954, 11 officers wearing red.-bordered black epaulets i} cluding three
ulth tank insignia, and about 12 bandsmen wearing red-bordered black a~paulet:
were seen in front of the rain gate of the former Pi_or..ier Kaserne In Kloster--
n uburg (0 x.9/S 30), which was guarded by a sentry wearing red-bordered bl&.ck
epaulets with artillery insignia. Motor vehicles observed, at the installation
_ncluded veapon carrier I truck DanC. jean all
driven by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets. Truck driven
., a solder wearing blue-bordered black epaulets, and truck driven
by a soldier wearing black-bordered black epaulets, were observed at the north-
western gate, which was ' guarded by a sentry wearing black--b order ed black
epaulets and beside which timber as used by engineers was piled up. About 35
soldiers, 16 trucks and the radiators of 16 motor vehicles were observed in the
former Piona.er-Zeugamt which was g ded by a sentry wearing red' bbordeL od
Mack epaulets. Truck and driving-school t;rt~ck each driven
by a soldier wearing red-,bordered black epaulets, entered the. installation .
3' On 9 March 1954, the sentries in cantonment 1 in Keisersteirlbruch (P ! /x 67)
?Jo;r e red-,=-bordered black epaulets. The installation stored 4 weapon. carriers
and 34 trucks and an e: tier