WEEKLY OB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008301120008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 9, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
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9 November 1955
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
The following is a summary of information on Soviet and East Osman military
been evacuated. Intensive training activity took place at the Kroechlendortf
training grounds, southwest of Prenzlau, in mid-'October. Two shipments with
SP gunuunits.were sent from Eberswalde to Parchim between 28 October and
1 November; one of the shipments subsequently returned. On 31 October, a
mechanized unit entered Installation No. 4161 in BerlinnKarshorst.
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IlDoalligns:
The engineer camp at Appolensdorf was still occupied by 800 engineers on
28 October. The other engineer camps in the Rosslau" Aken-Dessau area had
2. Shipments;..
The. following military shipments were made on the dates indicated below:
21 October: One shipment from Neubukow to Frankfurt/Odor.
26 October: One shipment with one converted boxcar and 29 flatcars froia
Beeskow to Jueterbog. It is assumed that mortars were beix4
turned in.
27 Octobers One shipment from Frankfurt/Oder to Wildpark. The load
included 12 x 122 mm model 1954 field guns, a type previo s:y
observed at the May Day parade in Moscow.
One shipment to Roederau with 20 x 85 mm AA guns, five special
trailers and four boxcars with personnel.
28 October: Thirty flatcars from Frankfurt/Oder via Falkenberg. The
shipment carried covered vehicles, presumably tanks.
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Weekly OB Summary
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
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30 October:
Thirty-one cars from Wuensdorf to Dresden
T,vlenty-one cars from Wuensdorf to the Halle district
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30 October: Seventeen care from V'u s sdorf to the Halle district
One shipment with eight converted boxcars, one boxcar arX
31 flatcars from Wuensdorf to Bernburg
One shipment with 38 cars from Angersdorf to Jueterbog
31 October: Three flatcars with sideracks and thirty boxcars were loadod
with six trucks and personnel repectively at Frankfurt/War
and dispatched toward Brest-Litovsk.
Late October: One shipment with 25 f latcars9 including three with loan:
exceeding standard measurements9 from Frankfurt/Oder to
Chemnitz.
1 Novembers Four flatcars, including two with loads exceeding stand
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up Activities:
KUP units were either at their posts or employed in harvest operations.
Discharges and assignment of recruits continued at Potsdam after 20 October,
In mid-October, 500 UP officers arrived at Camp Noc'lten from the USSR. The
officers were subsequently distributed among all the divisions. On 18 October~
a shipment with.a tank unit, presumably returning to Gotha, was observed at the
Grose Korbetha railroad station. The ' last troops, presumably units from Bratiat.V
burg-Hohenstuecken and Gloewen, evacuated the Klietz.Ferohels-Nahlitz trainir
grounds between 20 to 22 October. The units of Mechanized Division Nggesin
which participated in the exercises in the Ahlbeck-Jaegerbeck area returned
to their quarters during the night of 21 to 22 October. The problem of the
gxxrcise was an attack under conditions in which atomic weapons are employes.
The fall inspections of Rifle Division Prenzlau were held between 24 and
27 October.
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