MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE ZOSSEN-WUENSDORF-KUMMERSDORF AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004501100002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Between 12 and 30 1L-.ay 1954, the Eisen'aai_ripionier Kaserne (3381) was occupied
by about 2,?CO troops wearing red-bordered black and black epaulets. On 13
May, 30 guns of various calibers, including 10 x 76.2-mm AA E ls; and 2
tie-removing machines were seen in the installation. Source noted that
vehicular traffic was unusually light after 18 May. All motor vehicles were
being maintenanced. Thirty-five to 40 trucks were on blocks for greasing.
2. On 11 iiay, source observed that .a brick building of 3 x 4 :::e+cre, 2.5 pet _:rs
high, was under construction in AAA emplacement No 1. Its roof counted a
U-antenna. Between 5 and 23 May, intensive activity was observed in AKA
emplacemen+s Nos 1 and 2 on several days of observation. About 120 to 15C
troops with guns and equipment were seen in each emplacement. The T-1 devices
wereiin operation. 11111111111116* 35 to 40 seconds after the turning of the parabolic
reflector, the guns traversed in the same direction. The exercise was several
times repeated. On 23 May, 40 troops left AAA emplacement No 2 for Stammlager
Zossen.
3. On 11 May, about 120 troops were seen at AAA emplacement No 6. Twelve trucks
were seen in a wooden shed. The installation had been surrounded by a board 1
fence during the preceding days.
4. On 11 May, AAA emplacement No 5 appeared to be vacant. 2
5. Source prepared a sketch on the telephone connections in the ?TuensdorPL-2ossen
area. Most of the lines are temporary lines and consist of field cables on
wooden poles. 2
6. On 22 or 23 May, the occupation of the barracks installation S.chi. nke Lake
(3441) increased by 200 to 300 troops to a total of about 2,300 troops,
most of whom wore red-bordered black epaulets and, some, black epaulets. A
,unit of 200 troops, equipped with about 20 three-axle amphibious vehicles,
presumably of model DU W-353; 4 jeeps and 6 to 8 truck was quartered in tents
between the Sperenberg forestry and Hege Lake. A unit of 1CO to 120 troops
was quartered in 10 tents at the northern point of Schumke Lake. The box goraster
announced that, effective 5 June 1954, the area around Here Lake was put off
limits probably for 2 tears. The farm near TI p TAkP hxarl n,-,in +n h-SS9Aated.
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7. At 3 plm.. on 23. May, a ehi:p ,:ent . of 40 to 45 trucks, 5 jeeps and 8 to 10
sidecar motoreycles passed through the Zossen railroad station, coming
from the direction of Jueterbog and proceeding to Freienwalde. A freight
train which, a short time later went in the same direction, carried 5
T-34/85 tanks and 15 sidecar motorcycles.
of Aitr d sdrf since May 1953.
The headquarters and a regiment of the 2d Gds .&AA Div are
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in te Bisenbah ionier Ka serne$ and each one regiment are stationed
in Sta lager Zoasen (3641) and the Cambrai Kaserne (3001) in Wuensdorf.
The ` ourtk regiment has been carried in the new, barracks installation south
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AAA emplacements Nos 1,
2 and 6 are occupied by a 8.5-mm battery each. Emplacement No 5 has been vacant
sines June 1953, while emplacements Nos 3 and 4, which :are located in the 25X1
immediate vicinity of the Hg; GOFG, are occupied by light AAA batteries. The
set-up of telephone lines indicates a central command post located in Stammlager
Zessen.. The direct eonneotiozs to emplacements Nos 1 and 2 confirm information
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oeoupied by the AAA regiment stationed in Stammlager
cep s not occupied by
ineer troops on 13 May.
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nt The barracks installation Schumke bake can be carried occupied
as Viqus y by the 35th ' B#t (US) of the Third Gds Meeh Army. The
restriction of the area mentioned indicates that either special exercises of 25X1.
eng?neer units of the QOF r were to take place in this area or the engineer
regiment will not transfer to the Ilbe River this summer. The Aipllendorf summer