OB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400320004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT
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 at the Templin troop-training grounds. On 6 June units bi thq 120bh:J1AA Regiment
returned from Altengrabow to Bernau. In late May and early June some unite of
the 7th Guards Mechanized Division returned from Lieberose to Ftlrstenwalde. On
10 June units of the 25th Tank Division, with anti-aircraft artillery and scout
cars, were transferred from Templin to Altengrabow. On 9 June a detachment
of the 63rd AAA Division returned, presumably Pram iiustrow, to Eberswalde (Britz
Camp).
5. Third Shock Army. Farly in June.-Camps Bombers 1 and 3 near Born, Letzling
Heath, were occupied to capacity by the 19th Guards Mechanized Dlvision and Army
troops, On 10 June heavy guns were fired individually in the training area.
On 11 June three empty trains were assembled at the Burg railroad station,
presumably to carry troops to Letzling Heath or Alte~abow. During the first
part of June, one battery of the 10th Guards Rocket-LauncAeT,Regimeat;. '
(IXth Motorized Rifle Corps) went each day, in rotation, to Die Levitz
firing range (described as north of Ludwigslust). On 12 June several 122-mm.
field howitzers were fired at Die Levitz firing range; these arg believed
to have belonged to the 4th Artillery Brigade. On 10 June there was an exercise
involving 10 tanks of the 91Fth Guards Motorized Rifle Division.
6. Elghth Guards Arm. On 9 June the Army headquarters was still st Weimar-Nohra.
On 10 June the artillery bx+~gslies of the Army were still at Altenburg; there was
firing with live ammunition in the 1Cammerforst area 4 kilometers north of
Altenburg. On 12 June the 208th Artillery Brigade was still at G~ra; iatenslve
work was going on in the enlarging of the training grounds of the military post.
There was continuous firing practice at the Forst-Zeitz training area. On 10
J1u~e the 316th Guards Rocket-Launcher Regiment was at Saalfeld. On 5 J1iae
the entire 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Division was at Plauen. On 30 May
the Gotha barracks were occupled to capacity by units of the 57th Guards
Motorized Rifle Division. On 9 May the presence of the 172nd Guards Motorized
Rifle Regiment at Gotha was confirmed. Since early May an engineer battalion
of the 21st Guards Mechanized Division has been observed in the Aken area.
 7, 1-ourth Artillery Corps. On 7 June s unit of the 2nd Ouarde AAA Division returned
free iiwtrow to Spereaberg. Oa 8 June the 4th AT Brigade wan at Prors. On 9 June
the 25th Quard~ Rocket-Launcher Brigade was still at Rsthenow. Beginning late in
May, individual batteries of the 124th Heavy Switzer Brigade carried as exercises
is the Brandenburg area, lasting several days each. Between 10 and 14 June,
units of the 3bth Art111ery Division rotated betrrevi Alten~abow and Potsdam.
8. Army Troops of the (~OV(i. Barly in June the construction of an under-water
bridge across a branch of the Abe was observed between Rosslau and Vockerode;
temporary bridge-building equi-pmsnt which was wed is alleged to have been mare
On 19 and 20 Nay eight M gems of modern design arrived st the Bismarck Easerne in
Raumburg; they remained there at least until 8 June. These are described as
10. Between 13 and 18 June trains with a light escort detachment were observed
moving from !'ranldurt on the Oder in the direction of Cottbus, carrying 94 122-ma.
field howitzers, 30 six-wheel armored personnel carriers, and 45 motor vehicles.
11. lCVP. Between 8 and 12 June elements of the Ministry of the Interior and of the
1Wp, including Lt. Oea. Heinz Hoffmann, seven mayor generals, eight Soviet
officers, approximately 1,000 1CVP officers of lower grades, and 300 female clerical
workers, were transferred Eras Barlia to the Strawberg airfield. On 14 J1u-e
the Conetrwtiaa and Billeting Departments of the KYP were transferred from Nauer-
straase to 8effiellerstruss is Berlin. Elements of the mechanized regiment
is Earpia have moved to a summer camp is the Ahlbect area. The Neisswuser
training grounds are being wed by small units of the Kbrps 8fld.