WEEKLY OB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008300580006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 2, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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The withdrawal of Soviet border guards and the troop rotation program.
continued. The bulk of the Soviet army units are at their posts, engaged
in training recruits and in reconditioning equipment. KVP training
activities came to a close with fall inspections and the examinations
at the schools. The employment of KVP personnel in harvesting continued.
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5141 in Gera and Installation 2002 in Brandenburg are used as ccIlection
22 Ontober..
2. Training Activities:
Sixteen tanks (JS, T-54 and SP) were engaged in night firing at the
Wittstock training grounds on 17 and. 18 October. On 17 October, the
medium tank regiment of the 6th Guards Mechanized Division went in one
shipment from Ternptin to Kaulsdorf. T-34's, M-13 rocket launchers, and
AT guns practiced firing at Die Levitz training grounds, south of
Schwerin, on 15 and 19 October. Two shiments with tank details were
sent from Leipzig/Taucha toward Eilenburg on 21 October.
3. Return of Border Guard Units to the-US :
RThirteen shipments with border guard units returning to the USSR were
observed between 14 and 22 October. The fol louiniz out_oii shipmentsv
reported for the first time were observed: from
Tangerhuette to Kietz and from Magdeburg to Frankfurt!
Oder on 21 October.- and rem Gera to ?3rest Litovsk on
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centers for the returning un't d going from the zonal
border to collection centers ieste, East of
Oebisfelde, to Brandenburg on c ober and from Krinau, East
of Salzwedel, to Tangerhuette on 13 October.
4. Troop Rotation:
Fifty westbound shuttle trains with approximately 65,000 recruits and
36 eastbound shipments with about 39,000 dischargees
between 2 Se ember and 27 October. Shuttle trains
have been employed
During the sane perio in 1954, 80 westbound
an 70 eastbound shipments had been made.
5. Unidentified Sh ioments:
Seven shipments with a total of 136 flatcars and 14 converted boxcars
were sent from Moegelin, near Rathenow, to Brest Litovsk between 10 and
2L Octoberie On 24 October a train,
consisting of two convey a oxcars and flatcars went
rom res Litovsk to .Ammendorf via Frankfurt/Oder
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6. KVP:
a. According to as yet unconfirmed information a total of 8121 FDJ
members were in the process of being inducted into the KVP between
1 and 15 October.
b. On 25 October, a KVP shipment consisting of 25 heavy-duty flatcars,
two boxcars, one flatcar and two converted boxcars went from
Jueterbog to RBD Halle via Falkenberg. The shipment possibly
involved a tank delivery to the KVP.
c. The occupation of the KVP installations in Prora appeared to be
unusually light on 18 October. Only engineer equipment was observed.
d. The bulk of the corps units from Pasewalk were engaged in an exercise
in the area northeast of Pasewalk between 18 and 21 October. The
exercise was supervised by Brigadier General Hermann Rentzsch.
e. Elements of Mechanized Regiments Oranienburg and Brandenburg
Hohenstuecken and of Artillery Regiment Gloewen had apparently moved
to the training grounds East of Klietz after 22 October.
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