MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF UNITS OF THE 9TH TANK DIV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007000010007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military Activities of Units Of
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for Camp Zeitbain. hey were follsd 7 4? to soldieas ~sserit
red-bordered black epaulets with tag* taWgtia.
The column inabAWd as., of rs wam"me prev ously
1. At about 1800 on 12 April 1955, a train of 15 bonears, each occupied
by 15 to 20 soldiers wearing red- s+dered blast epaulsto, end an
undetermined number of flatcars with sidereeta y1 6 trucks,
1 Jeep, 1 ambulance and 1 field kitehop was sows is Ha-tha
from Falkenberg toward Riesa.
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2. At about 1400 on 17 April, 3 JSU-122 mss, 333-2 tanks, IJ3-3 tank,
7 trucks towing eld litchens, a a now-" oo ele with 4 seats
were unlo ded at the Roederau raijr sd etatio a" s!s seq satiy left
4 On 14 April, 20 to 25 soldiers weari g biaek-bordered black epaulets 25X1
reconditioned steel pontoons in the Muds tasorue (1801) in Riesa.
to b to t
~e von-der-Coltz Kaserne (18?2) in . 3
been observed. The unit wa.s. preavusbif statioweg in tho cal
3. During the night of 16 April, a leak wait w8s detrained at the
Roederau railroad station. Judgi* from ft* imparts of the tracks,
the tanks were T-54s, about 6 of *kick amt Camp Zoithsia and 4
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1. Comment. ckipu imt
west f Bs1 ease oat o Hie with
13 converted boxcars, 2 boxcars aa* 6 fiateara.
be stationed in the Mudrs. Kaserne R,
a firing a o e Nth s Wt,. yhits is too" to
2. Common . shi
wen rom a en"#Uem I.
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atcars. npe
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3. [Comme.-t. Since no shipment with T-54 tanks oremp" the border
and went in this direction Luring the period nti d 049 sines other
divisions also fired in the Letzl#s Heal with 7-54 tanks, the obser
unit may have been such a firing itrtail.
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