(SANITIZED)SOVIET INSTALLATIONS, WEAPONS; EAST GERMAN POLICE AND INSTALLATION(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A051200610001-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 22, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material gontains Information affecting the National Defense of the United states within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.O. Boca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Bast Germany/U$SR
ons, Weapons,
DATE OF
INFO.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 22 OCT I ft
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENTIS TENTATIVE.
Central Weapons Workshop of the East German People's Police of
the Potsdam area, with some of the top personnel. Discusses types
of weapons repaired there. Strength of the PeQp.C'a Police in
Potsdam. Soviet restricted area opposite this weapons workshop -
tank unit there equipped with sixty T/54s orJS/3s plus forty
of a new type tank with two parallel cannon.
'2. Soviet vehicles at Warder airfield. Various Soviet soldiers with
blelcks}wder an artillery insignia, others with red
>houldrboa s d dragdisfly (Libellers) insignia.
units taken from a document in a
Gross Kreutz (near Werder).
test area NNE of Rossleben, apparently the
area for use of motorized troops.
Comment:Probab
-"-`- 57 mm.
the ZSU/57/2, a modified T-54 with two
A cannon.
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Weapons Workshop is subordinate to the Section TD fTechnischer Dienst
(Technical Service) - the chief is Major Weidlic7. The thief of the Central
Weapons Workshop is Peoples Police Captain Manzel. His deputy is Peoples
Police Lieutenant Fehnel (who is at the same time SII) - Secretary of the
workshop). There are 25 persons employed in the Central Weapons Workshop, all
are members of the Peoples Police. Weapons of the Peoples Police, the Customs,
and battle groups of the Potsdam and Cottbus areas were repaired there.
LThe weapons included machine guns, machine pistols, carbines, and pistols as
well as cannons of the Standby Police (Bereitschaftpolizex9 All the weapons
which are repaired are old weapons of international origins the only new ones
being the Soviet Makarov pistols which are of unusual accuracy and are 12 mm
in caliber and hold nine rounds. Seventy-five percent of all weapons are in
very bad condition and practically useless. Parts are practically nonexistent.
By 1962 the NVA, the VP, the Border Guards, and the Customs are supposed to
receive new standard weapons from the Soviet Union. Old weapons will be turned
over to unit combat groups after being repaired. The single weapons plant
in',the Soviet Zone of Occupation ?D R7 located in Suhl is presently engaged in
the manufacture of the Soviet MP 41 under license but is supposed to manufacture
only replacement parts for old weapons (sports and hunting) in the future
because the present LDDRJ production capability of replacement parts. is completely
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the following figures regarding the strength of the VP
in Potsdam:
VP - District authority (Bezirkabehoerde) - 400 men.
VP - District office (Kreisamt) - 200 men as well as two battalions of standtbr
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men each as well as a motorized company with three tanks, artillery,
signal section, etc. (about 250 men).
opposite the Central Weapons Workshop in Potsdam
,Xm Schragen there is
a Soviet restricted area. A tank unit is stationed there.
there are about 60 tanks of the T-54 and JS-3 type as
well as 40 new types of tanks with two parallel cannons with a caliber of
about 60 mm. these tanks outside the park area because
these tanks did not leave the restricted area and did not take part in the
usual tank exercises..i the tank resembles a turtle.
The tank is about 220 mm high, about 15 meters long, and about 6 meters wide.Ls.
The upper band of the tank treads are covered by armor plating, only the lower
half aft-the tread are open to view (side view). The cannons of which two-
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three jut out have noticeably large vertical aiming device jielwinkei7.
now as before a Soviet Border Guard battalion is
stationed in Stahnsdorf.
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a Soviet restricted area between Freyburg
and Rossleben as per our instructions.
there was a small Soviet restricted area N of Rossleben in the
forest area between Rossleben and i7 egplroda (about two square miles
in size). The Rossleben-Ziegelroda,$oes through this restricted area.
About one kilometer from Rossleben there is a guarded turnpike and the
same thing is true of the exit one kilom ter farther on. Traffic is
free to use the road during-the day buts off limits at ni ht.
signs.
the ov e s often transport
unknown objec particularly long vehicles and/or wit es
Since between Freyburg to Rossleben there is a forty kilometer
stretch of highway and both are stops an-.a rail line it cannot be assumed
that the objects are taken from Freyburg via highway to the restricted area
near Rossleben which would mean going through several villages.
Since there are no Soviet s i evbur as is also the case in the
immediate surrounding area (1)
what kind of vehicles are involve 2 Where do they tray el to?
Something about the destination.
the restricted area between Rossleben and Ziegelroda in order to inspect it
more closely (fencing, rail tracks, types of vehicles and number).
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various soldiers with black shoulderboards and artillery
insignia as well as some soldiers with red shoulderboards and Libellen
with four wings (two on each side). -"-
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the wooden bridge at Werder Airfield no longer
place
~ The
where the bridge formerly stood has been leveled.
Kreutz in the office of the Personnel director of the Reichsbahn.
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