THIRD GDS MECH ARMY AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004700310004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC
CLAIFICATION
4' ird ; Area
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
TE PREPARED 28 July 1954
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26 June. At 1700 . 3 x 76-mm guns. 6 x 85 -am AT guns and 10 trucks
in Jagen No 69.
27 June. Fifteen 100-mm AT guns with YA-12 prime movers, 8 x 85-mm AT
and about 0 true s
in Jagen No--W.
1 Jul . About 30 x 120-am and 160-mm mortars which were firing ad about
50 trucks in the training area.
3 July. At 1830, 20 x 85-am, 122-mm and 75-mm guns and about 20 trucks,
in Jagen No 68.
1900, 24 x 120-mm and 160-am mortars, 2 x 57-mm IT guns , 8 x 122-mm
field howitzers, 4 x 76-m euno, 8 x 8 , rocket launchers
4 Jul At 1100, gun emplacements were being leveled. Between noon and
nd about 25 tiu cks
were loaded at the Forst Minna railroad
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Dessau freight station and subseauently went to Kochstedt,
of personnel wearing red-bordered black epaulets was detrained at the
04 6 July 1954, a unit with 8 x 76-mm AA guns, 14 trucks and 21 boxcarloads
At 1230 on 9 July, T-3105 tanks
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3. Between 23 June and 11 July, motor vehicles
were seen in the Werder-Markendorf area.
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4. Between 23 June and 11 July, firing with artillery, AT guns and rocket
launcherz was held at the Forst Zinna training grounds from morning to
night. Materiel observed included:
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9 Ju . At 1600, 9 guns and 12 trucks
in Jagen Nos 54 a-lcn - 69.
Between 1900 and 2030 on 5 July, 4 x 37-mm AA guns fired at sleeve
targets towed by two single-engine aircraft at an altitude of 800
to 1,000 meters.4
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motor vehicles were seen at the parking lot of Camp
Forst Z nna (3207) between 23 June and 11 July
6. Elptween 23 June and 11 July, the Ncr ddeutsehe Maschinenfabrik
in Luckenwalde was occupied alpreviously by 400 to 500 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets. An unusually high number of
officers were seen in the in all ti and
about 150 soldiers were
repeatedly
7. About 500 soldiers wearing red-bcrdered black epaulets with, artillery
and signal insignia were seen in both Stalags I and II On 3
and 4 July, a radio station with circular antenna 1 meter diameter
was erected in the southeast section of Stal%g I. On 6 July, 6 M-13
rocket launchers were cleaned in Stalag I. At 1630 on 9 Ju 8 rocket
launchers and 4 trucks
went toward the Forst nna training area. About 100 soldiers were
repeatedly seen drilling and cleaning motor vehicles in Stalag II. On
6 Jdly, 3 overhauled repair shop trucks went from Stalag IT to Stalag
I. Motor vehicles seen near Stalags I and II
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elements of the 62d AAA Div.
Oomment The 6th Gds Tank Div is confirmed in the Werder-
-Markendorf training area until 11 July)
3.1 _ICom ent. The information confirms that elements of the 2d Light
Arty Brig and the 12th Gds Tank Div conducted firing nractic?s at
Jueterbog.
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5.I IComment. the Hq
Third Gds Mech'Army was still stationed at Camp Forst Zinna prior
to 11 July.
6~ Commnt. A training unit of the Third Gds Mech Army is stationed
in the Norddeutsche Maschinenfabrik.
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