TRANSFER OF ELEMENTS OF THE 25TH TANK DIV FROM ORANIENBURG TO VOGELSANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007000800001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 17, 1955
• Content Type: CABLE

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CLASSIFICATION SECRST,
COUNTRY East Germany REPORT
TOPIC
Transfer of Elements of the 25th Tank Div from Oranienburg to Vogelsang
EVALUATION P1 Arr 11 D
DATE OF CONTEN
DATE OBTAINED PREPARED
REFERENCES
PAGES 1 ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE)
REMARKS
17 Mai 1955
At 0900 on 27 April 1955;, some 40 trucks carrying billeting equipment and soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets entered the Neue Kaserne northwest of Vogelsang,
sL,uth of installation No 4823? True as seem At 1600, the column
was followed by a second column of aoouz 4v urnc c3 and 30 sidecar motorcycles, 25X1
At 0830 on 28 Aril, cola*mn3 of trucks including some
carrying fuel drums, motorcycles and approximately 45 armored personnel carriers 25X1
entered the installation. 0'; A -r.lk come 20 ? xgh'~ AA guns, 40 trucks with
billeting equipment and 10 tank trucks and, at 1300. dome 80 trucks with ""r' 25X1
and billeting equipment entered the installation.:
On 30 April, 20 rocket 14uncnere ana some 15 trucks wt-th
soldiers entered the installation.;: All columns came from he dl.rect.ion of Ze(tdenick,
25X1
At 09 3 w guns, 1. Y. 76-min AA gun, abu% t 25
trucks and an i ndeterntned number of sL;ldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets with arti'"Jery :t.nsmgnia were ready to 1ea'4,e
the Weisse Stadt restricted area (4683) in Ozanienburg. At 1600 x 2May,. the 25X1
engine, uni : with trucks, pontoons, engineer and billeting equipment" r ed 14,,
~rvw
25X1
3. At 1600 on Ma the 1:)ading of a shipment started at the Oranienburg railroad
r.tatiori. The unit arrived from the direction of et.:hse Stadt,
Comment. The. observations confirm a previous x-eport, according to which 25X1
elements of the 25th Tank Div stationed In 1,76
Stadt in Oranienburg left
between. 26 and 28 April. According to this and
p2evious reports, all uni TO o e division a & lone in the installation had left
fur V:orelsan2 prior to A Mav- except for elements of the 194th Engr Bn which,
units of the i sons a .? rc Br_ un 1 28 April, the 17021 AAA Regt and the
1.6,41 Gds RL Bea until 30 April -and the 194th Engr Bn until 3 May l955,, 25X1
transferred to the BBD Magrd.eburg, probably o he 25X1
be River, Weapons observed confirm the following
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