KINDEL TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900250004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Kindel Troop Training Grounds
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LDATE PREPARED 23 August 1954
1. Compared to preceding years, Camp Kindel on Highway No 84 was about 25 to
30 percent occupied in July 1954, About 30 JS tanks or SP guns wore parked
south of the highway and north of Kuenkel-hof estate. In July, there were no
exercises such as had been observed in preceding years. , Between 1100 and
1130 on 22 July, firing, presumably of, artillery pieces* was hold at the
training grounds. At least 15 new barracks were under construction south of
Hainaer Forst and west of the Ettenhausen 4Yolfsbehringen road,, The new
buildings had a concrete basement and a winterized wooden superstructure
Other buildings were being erected north of the highway in the cast portion
of the training grounds. Motor vehicles seen on route to and from the
training
During the first half of June, the training grounds was occupied by an
estimated 20 to 25 percent of the occupation of preceding years. Firing of
artillery pieces and tanks, such as had been hold almost daily during
preceding years, was not observed. Motor vehicles seen en route to and from
At 1800 on 22 July,& train consisting.:of I kitchen car, 1 tc ;car occupied
by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery and signal
insignia, and 17 flatcars carrying 17 unnumbered three-axle trucks left
the Eisenach freight station toward Erfurt. 2,
At 0200 on 23 July, pontoons'-and timber were unloaded from a train of 32
cars at the Eisenach freight' station. The train included six cars occupied
by soldiers. The unloaded mater al was shipped toward the training area by
trucks
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the Kindel training grounds must have been occupied by at least
t'25 to 30 prreerit of previous occupation,, presumably resulted from the fact
that the two sources compared the present occupation with that in 1952
when the area had been occupied by the two divisions of the XXiX Gda Its
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to b,9000 soldiers in July, The corresponding information in paragraphs
=1 and 2, according to which the training grounds was occupied only about
2d Cg , 9 The three le trucks presusmably were new trucks from the
former 3 plants in Eisenach 5n ' route . to the 'USSR.
C2mwantt,L The train apparently carried engineer equipment from the
Aken training area,
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