MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE BERNAU BRANDENBURG DESSAU-ROSSLAU EBERSWALDE FUERSTENWELDE AND TEMPLIN AREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700530004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: REPORT

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4. Durin;; ,;~~, ~ "`'t`roop ~ t irs wi th i~:?ucla ~,t-_c,
guns rep ` e . came frogs the di~~ection cy#' ~oe:~renb@r~_ a~d..wez~..~
5. n 2 Teo ~ ~ iis~?ix!^s~aIlation in Dessau-l'ioss~au vas.'
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During the ?sga~M~ a~c~3~;tely ~ 000 spldier"s arx~ ~.Y~1 ..:
The~:r included ~ ~(~ee~rrfl~3~TC0~; {2 ta?,2~ yeaie:~ gid,.~ncl 30 .-.
to 35 percent' i~~crui~~~~;*!3r~cludi Some batti~vaen' 23 and Za yaz~r~ - ?
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6. On 2~~, P~t~vem~"be ~ ~ t7ie i~?ao~.e`r ~~'scrfie'~~(45d2~) in 1~`~~erste~~;.a~~%:~ ,,, .
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occupied by s+n;u$oximately 800 soldiers ?,~e:~.rir. _c~a~=~~r* ~r :r.""~ u; acic
epaulets rith tanic~ ar~illery~,, si~~:ial' and r~_. cox ~z?azis :;;r+; a~;~ i~-:ia
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7. On ?_~ i~ovembexa 'the lz.asarne on 13raunsdor:~e,r Strasse i~45C. j,, in -.,~-~.
Fuersternralde ?as occupied by ap+ ro~i~ ,Q~ .8;~1,,, ~o~.d+ie~. ~'S~'re :riiz
red-~~borderec. 'olack. ea leis with '~~~i?y' art:allery, ,z ~ _r,l and
;~:}tor transpc~*i~tSr~a::"Reot~Slts"Cbserved at tr~~ ~' ,,::rs~l:entral.de
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$. Bete^=yen 1 anc: 18 ;+ovember,, the .r'lak 7~asernp (2U02~ ir_ 3rar_denbur~;
~N~.s occu_~isd almost to capacity. Th:o 57-rm 3T ;~,~ns previously
observed there vrere na lon.,;er seen. On .and after 13 :`ovember,
2~ is Ga-rya ~.T ~uxrs vrere seen in front of the ;ara~es inhere the
5i-m::z gvr~s had previously been stored.. Un this day, the vans. iere-
lined up in tvro -reYrs and crere being inspected.
~, tit J.3G0 on 2U '?ovember, 26 x 57-mm AT duns .from the r'lak `r'_aserne
ti~rere entrained at the Brardenbur?-Altstadt railroad station by a
Ioadi:i~- detail Nearing reci-iiorciered black epaL~lets with artillery
insi~n_a. 'o
Co~.rrent. A loading; of pontoons On full--tract vehicles has 25X1
been reported for the first time in the Soviet gone. the
composition of the shii~raont -'tends to indica~`e that an assa~~.:lt en~irieer
unit r-tas involved. S. ecial units o tais -type i.ave not 'peen o'oserved
in tine area oP the L~ourth Gds ?ech ~ir~.nJr until the j~resent tirr:e. `.111ey 25X1
~rrere o'asez ,red onl~~ Yrith. the en~,ir~eer red i I:Ient cf the u:.:~~G in
3ernbur;; and t'~e corm enLinoer units.
or~.rzent. This ,nay be the sh~n~n} Yri11.Cr1 eras u:ilozded in
Bornau at 1330 on 25 lover~ber. See
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materiel eras bound for the 71st . l;i~ht Arty Brig of the i~ourth Gds 25X1
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Colrrnent. 'i'he trains r?w~* have ruri in.coz_nection vrith trze.
previously reported ecui~~~Ient exchan;;e pro{;?rar_I.
~ol:.rient. the varyir.;; inlo~mation on .tine ale of t'rze recz~zits
cres,'ces the impression that Inerrl~ers of older classes, rrizo had been
rejected previously, :rere also inducted. Tho percenta;,~~e of non
com.^~issioned o~ficers,arnon~ the neYrly arrived personnel is unusually
high, aossi?~ly bec~.use soldiers of ttisro classes ~rere discharged i.n
the :~C'V1G',t pane during the fall..
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