SOVIET TROOPS IN ST. POELTEN GAMING ALLENTSTEIG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900180004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE PREPARED,
20-April 1955
1. On 23 ~~s:.rah 1955 r a sedan and ~ trucks were parked in front of the form:3r
{rein oricht (diatriat court) building on Schiossstatt Rini; in St. Poelten
(0 49/w' 88). Tho bu ~? guarded by a sentry wearing bleak-bordered 25X1
~^ed epaulets. Sedan with a driver wearing black-bordered red
epaulets sad trunk ith a civilian driver were observed
departin;; from the sited A 37-mm AA gun with which soldiers wearing
xed-bordered black epaulets were observed training was seen in front of
the garage west of the former Kreisgericht building. Tyro ?oro 37-mm AA
;;Tuna and the radiators of 4 motor vehicles were also observed, Five
soldiers wearing black-bordered bleak a paulets with engineer insignia entered
the area of the ~gen Kaaern?. About 40 soldiers drilled With rifles in
~~he area of the Rainer Kaserne whore 36 motor vehicles were parked in.~ont
of the open doors of the gauges. i~:ighteen soldiers wearing black bordered
black epaulota were observed at ph,~sical trainir~; in the area of the
former mill at 88~Y~iener Strasse, while trucks 25X1
~~hiah were loaded with ration boxes and were driven by soldiers departed
Arom the site. A medical corps raa3or who wows red-bordered green oE~auleta
entered the former Alteraheim (home for tho old-aged) on Franz Binder
:itraase. Yon-like motor vehicle was observed in the park of
the Altershsim. Trunk Rith a driver wearing red-bordered black 25X1
3pauleta with artillery inoi~Tnia left the area of Viehofsn Castle. f~otor
vehioles observed at the gate of the Fr:~x-z Josef Kaserne included sedan
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and all with drivers wears =* red-bordered black span a s;
true sedans all With drivers wearing
slack-bordered red epaulets; and fee The k:~serne was guarded 25X1
by a sentry who wore bleak-bordered _. span eta. Two T 34/85 tanks,
6 trunks and 3 van-lik? motor vehiolee were parked in the area of Ca-~p
3pratzern which was exolusivsly wa=ded by sentries who wore red-bordered 25X1
black a aulsts. 1-otor vehicles obssrr~ed at the dam included drivi -sohool
truck van-like motor vshiolea
Seeps
trucks all with drivers we:~rina red-bordered black
epaulets.
h 195 60 soldiers who wore bleak-bordered red
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epaulets and carried rifles, 4 soldiers who carried li;;ht r~aehine guns, ~
,:~nd ~ saldlera Who carried weponw Ah+~~ ..M... -~resumubl.v recoilless rifles ' ~~~ ~,~
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returned to the former eonvant in t3r~ming (0 t~E/w 45 arently
(rota a field ezeroise. 'they were followed by truck with
driver wearing blaok-bordered red epaulets. The driver+e ca of thin
vehicle was oaoupied b;/ 2 ma3ors wearix~ black-bordered red
epaulets and parrying aiming silhouettes were observed in the bey.
of the vehicle. Fbur trucks end a van-like motor vehicle were
observed in the area of the convent. Truck with a2driver
wearing flack-bordered red epaulets departed from the site.
3. oa 22 DQarah 1955, the reports of guns were heard in Al.lentateig
(o q9/R 53) ~~m the direotion of the troop training grounds. 1
lieutenant colonel and 2 m~3ors, all wearing black-bordered red
epauleta~ sad a ms,3or wearing red-bordered black epaulets w~
artillery insignia were observed at the komendatura. Sedan
with a driver rearing red-bordered black a psulete was parked in front
of the komend+-tura. Motor vehicles observed in the area of the tarn
-like motor vehid2e truoka
d Seep w vets wearing red-bordered
b ao ? eta; deep with a driver -wearieag
blaok-bordered red epaulets; and truck wi~;h a driver wearing
bleak-bordered blaok epaulets. 6oeordirtg o0 2residents, ss~vesal
ahipnents had departed from Allentateig recently.
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1. OComstent. The present report confirms pravioua information c n
the oooupstion of St. Poelten. All motor vehicles mrntioned in the
present report belong to unite atationad at St. Poelten.
2 Comment. The present report from Gzu-ing and Al.lentateig oonfizv+s
prey oua information.
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