1. TROOP MOVEMENTS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF LETZLING HEATH 2. MILITARY OBSERVATIONS MADE IN NEUSTRELITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400050014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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c Qr dispate ed at the Ha ldons p n gy re d .tat. c,1. Le Fay d
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NJ* E egeaa me, And a zcc :
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a atr 14 with 12 T-~As or SU-10o
loft the Ha sleben railroad
were,,6ntrainec1
A 1013 r . 2 eptebe went f!-on Ili'] erslebcn
At 0630 on 26 Sentesnbe
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 Restricted Schlossgerten Area 2227)s Occupied by 100 to 150 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets. Truck entered the
2. At noon on 3 October, a train. with 6 NU -249a
passed through Neustrelitz railroad station toward Neubrandenburg.4
It is. ev that, in the rein, tank units of the division
were retransferred.from their suzm er camps to the winter quarters
between 23 and 27.Septber. Another source observed that wheeled
elements of the, r gdeburg from Letzling Heath
on 25 September. hose 7 shipments between 23
and .27 September are probably identical with those previously reported
by another source which, however, erroneously reported them to haves
gone in the direction of Letzling Heath.
LComment.
the two trains probably carried units of the 136th Gds Hv Tank SP
Regt of the Third Shock Army. It is assumed that these elements transferred
to Burg post after participation in the final exercises of the third
Shock Army.
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and a truck was dispatched at the Haldensieben railroad station
toward ?gdeburg.
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At .2400 on 6.Oct6ber a train cal'rying 13 JSTI-122s orJSG-249s,
about 10 trucks left Hillersleben toward $xagdeburg.2 25X1
The following obs Lions were made at Neustrelitz post during the
period from 30 S ber to 7 October:
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ne (2221 s The occupation increased after 27 25X1
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Restricted Gerhart .?`untmann Strasse ? Occupied by about 100 soldiers
Trucks
picked up ammunition athe ammunition depot in Fasanerie.
Alto Grenadier K ae 222 : Occupied by about 200 soldiers with
red bordered black epaulets. Tart of the unit was presumably absent.
Two 122-nm field howitzers and truck were seen in the
barracks yard.
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At 1630 on 7 9etober, a train with about 20 trucks
Cormen.t. It appears that artillery unit;. of the 9th Gds Tank Div
were still absent from the post for exercises in early October., In
late September, artillery units of the division either condncted
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small-scale wee in the Wesenber
in tank practices in the Derain arcs,
:,s a shipment of the 88th Engr Regt (7)
of the Second Gds Army from Neubrandenburg. It is possible
ghat elements of t' giment which had transferred to Ferchland/
Elbe on 21 Septembe r etur. reed to Neubrandenburg. The date of the
return is .an indication that the units had
exercise & 'Vie Th3 d 'Shock Army..
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