GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004101030006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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At about 7 porno on U April: 1954, the follov7'.ng troops e. passed through Gotha
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85 tanks I D. Sala e 15 f]Atc w 'With
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250 troops "veering red d Bred -black ea ,islets ? 1
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,, autobahn on- 31 !arohs radio trucks
*1t h i anerators and trucks
carrying a total of about 200 troops wearing rod-bordered black
epaulets,,. Some of the trucks carried equint u 2
3. Between 10 March and 3 April, a lase e7-ecale exercise involving jet aircraft was
observed in the Kahla--IF
- staedtei' Grund ara~gdala z, In th afternoon
on 10 14 reh, artillery units including heaves guns and rocket launchers wore
unloaded in Goeschwits. They subsequently moved toed KaLla-lRe1n edter. Grund
At about 5:30 pm. on 1.1 March,, a shipment of 6 SF guns and about 46- trucks wi?t111
troops carrying full pack was observed in Jena, coming from the, direction of
Kahla. At about 1.1 a.m. on 16 March, a troop train with 3 tanks and a large
number of trucks was seen en route toward Jena from the direction of Habla. Tile
train was followed by another consisting of boxcars with troo ? s On the morning of
30 March, 6 T-34 tanks and about 20 trucks oved -toward 25X1
Jena for the direction of Gerao In the afternoons the same day, 8 JS-3 tanks
UM 12 trucks drove toward Jena-Oat from the direction of
Buergel, The co umn later re aura to Buervel. from There was intensive
truek tra=ic in Jena on 1ih
About 16 trucks entered Jena from the direction of Kahla, at about
11 a.z!i, R9 to gdte Grund was blocked by r:axay tanks and
trucks on . April. Heavy smage was done to the fields. The trees along
the roads were crushed. During the night of 2 April, tanks and trucks drove
toward Jena from the direction of Grassbockedra. Sulze, Ru:thaa, and Lobeda.
Intensive flying activity of jet aircraft was observed over the training area
during the exercises. Flying activity decreased after 2 April. 2
4. r~ 31 March, .1 column, pesurmably ajheadquarise s, including
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Dessau from the direction of Rosslauc
]drove toward
At about 2'p.m* on 31 i'arch, a column of about 35 to 40 trucks and 10 to 15 tank
trucks cane from the direction of Koenigsbrueck and proceeded via Lanpertewalde
(N 52/A 11), Schoenborn, and Weissig on the Rahn River. lost of the trucks
carried 10 to 12 men, some carried luggage. Residents stated that columns have
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25X1 1. Commence presumably, a tank unit of the 20th Gds Yech Div which returned
from Ohrdruf.
25X1 2. Comment So far as they have been observed about 30 Aparch, the troop
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exercise of the 21st Ode "Tech Div, reinforced by units of the 7th Arty Frig (,Z)
which started in the area north and northwest of Naumburg on 28 and 29 1`erch
and extended toward Cariburg-Jana. An enemy group which
was aap;,rently represented
by elements of the 57th Gds Mtz Rifle Div, was presumably employed from the area
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The other movements observed ,fter 10
l4aarch are nfl believed to have been ed with this exercise'...
25X1 4o Cor rent. These movements are believed tQ have been linked with an exercise
of the reinforced 8th Gds Mech Div held In the Koenigeb sueek-Zeithaaln area in
late March.
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