MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY INFORMATION ON SOVIET TROOPS IN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200010022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Military Information on
Soviet Troops in Germany
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
~Sviet Army AA en attached to Soviet
r ores units in f erman r. such units came under
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the command of the Air Force; because units attached to some other, 25X1
branch of service wore the shoulderboards of their new branch
such artillery troops would exchange their shouldorboard ; ror
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hose of the Air Force.
2. Until 1952 MOB personnel were permitted to - have their families in
they .Soviet Zone of Germany. However, since -the Summer of 1952, MOB
personnel no longer had that privilege, When personnel who already
had their wives in Germany proceeded on leave to the USSR vith their
wires, the women were'not allowed to return'to Germany.
Only Army commanders and high-ranking generals were allowed to have
their wives with them in Germany after the Summer of 1952. Maj. Gen.
(tnu) KALINICHENKO, CO of the 4th Gde, Mecz, Army, sent his wife
back to the USSR in 1953 because it was rumored that his chief of
staff, Maj. Gen. (fnu) KOSHELYOVV (his equal in rank) did not enjoy the
same privilege of having his wife with him..
4+. Military. officers and noncommissioned officers (Sverkhsrochniki)
were allowed to 'marry female military officers,, female ssoldiere, or
civilian employees; this privilege was denied to EM. Should an
officer be transferred from GOFG before his wife's tour of service
in Germany was completed, the latter was required to finish her
tour unless she became pregnant, No explanations were ever given-
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DATE DISTR 3l Judy 1953
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for the p deDendents in the Soviet Zone of
Germany..
Germane were being trained as pilots on Russian ng ne-
propelled planes.
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