MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE NORTHERN SECTION OF EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900640008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
East Germatgr
:.REPORT
TOPIC IQlitau7 Activities in the Northern Section of East Germastpr
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTE
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
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ACE OBTAINED
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nAT IIIIIIIARED28.Ail 1955
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PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. a 1YPE),
REMARKS
14 On 1 il 1955. it was learned I I that 90 technicians were 25X1
employed in the preparation of new maps in Russian of the entire area of the GDE.1
2. Between noon and 1310 m. 5 Anr , the following vehicles and weapons case from the
direction of the Herrenkrug Raserne (5283) and passed ever the northern road bridge
CWilhelm Piemk Braocks) in Magdeburg: 8 14,13 rocket launchers, 6 x 76-m field Some,
3 guns with short conical barrel, without mnszle brake, caliber approximately SO.u
backward sloping straight tiv* shield equilibrator under the. barrel and beaortlpe
trails, about 44 trucks and 3 field kitchens 125X1
The unite returned toward Hrrrenkrug Kaserne at 0630636 on 7 April, Soldiers wearing red.-
bordered black epaulets and motor vehicle ere seen.2 25X1
3, In ilp Camp Schweinrioh at the Wittstock training grounds was oa ied by a
guard detail of appr?acimately 100 soldiers and a fatigue detail of some61diers who
were engaged in digginglut field cables. Three tank sheds at the souther edge of
the camp had been dismantled and had been shipped away toward Wittsteck.
4. Between 2100 on 8 Anri1& and 0500 on 9 Anril. 3 x?122 guns engaged in a night firing
at the Gentarode post training grounds near Neuruppin. The targets were not lighted
during the firing. 2M 19 Aflri,,,,1a 3 T-34 tanks held a night firing practices.at the
same time and in the same area. The tanks fired at unlighted targets, 1,600 to 1,800
meters om their positions. Subsequently, the targets were lighted for inspection
of hits'
5. In early oril., it was learned that the units from the Perleberg post were to leave
for the summer camp between 20 and 25 April, reportedly for Waldlager II south of
Huetten in the Letsling Beath. After 6 &=Us individual trucks with billeting
equipment left the post. Camp Schweinrich at the Nittstock training grounds was
allegedly to be occupied by air force units.3
6. At 2000 gn 19 April, 8 x 160-mm mortars, 8 full-track prime movers, 4 trucks and 25X1
1 field kitchen were detraiged at the Rathenow Nordbahnhof and left for the Pionier
Kaserne (5442) In Rathenow.
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Ccmament. Plane table sheets for Soviet usa were ptesum#bly beipg prepared, 25X1
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in late Marc
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artillery units of the 19th 25X1
ractioes in the Letzling Heath
of gun does not belon to the
and has not been obse ed in
been observed.
3,E-.-L CoVnenta Observations by the
possible that the 18th I z Div
training grounds but to a summer camp at
ch other. It is 25X1
erreal'E!!'the Wittetock
another training grounds in 1955.
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The tanks may have been equipped with a night sighting
mechanism.
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Reports from Rathenow indicated that the 65th Mort Brig
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bad been allotted tractors ai towing machin s r the 160-mm mortars during
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returned from firing praotides at gltemgrabowe
of the unidentified gun tends
tain guns. Since. this type
chanized diviowever,9
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