CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TRAINING IN THE 24TH MECH. REGT. AND THE 10TH SEP. GD. BN.

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• Publication Date: December 6, 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY USSR/Germany (Soviet Zone)
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.B.C. Seca. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
SUBJECT Chemical and Biological Warfare Training DATE DISTR.
in the 24th Mech. Regt. and the 10th Sep.
Gd. Bn. NO. OF PAGES
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQU
ARMY review completed.
REQUIREMENT
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
STATE ARMY #X I NAVY !_j X FBI AHC
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COUNTRY USSR Germany (Soviet ?one)
SUBIECT Chemical and Biological. Warfare
DATE DISTR. 13 Oct 1954
Training NO. OF PAGES 3
in'the'24th Mech. Regt. and the 10th
Sep. Gd. Bn.
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
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CHEMICAL WARFARE TRAINING
During Basic Training (Early 1950)
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are
lectures.
o gas masks were
issued to the basic trainees and there was no practical work done
in chemical warfare.
In the Recon. Co. 24th Meez. Refit (June 1950 - November 19511
nstruction in chemical warfare. Instruction
took ace fall after the com letion of summer aneuvers
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3. The classes were attended by as many men of the Recon. Co. as could
be gathered together (the total strength of the entire company was
onl 3 ?
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mustard gas yperite , which was the
gas used later in the gas chamber x
lesson.
Durin the lecture eriods various ases were mention
v.ac: 1L417 Vi %AL VV1"0 V1 toll= G:iie w.LU4.L LrFilning classes
varied. 0ccasionally, the company CO was the instructor, but,
ordinarily, the cla APR onducted by one of the company officers 25X1
or an NCO. usually, the day before a class was to
be held, the company CO would assign an instructor and give him the
theme of his lecture. That evening, the instructor would do some
research on the topic, and the following day he would -resent the
one dayl Ithe entire regiment
had to go through the gas chamber. About 20 men with their gas
masks in pouches entered the chamber g
the chamber, the group was told
that masks were to be put on at the command Gas: At this time
they were also told that the gas used in the chamber was mustard
gas. When the men were in the building, the door was closed and
after a few minutes the command "Gas!" was given. The men donned
their masks, remained in the chamber for a few minutes, and then
left. The entire exercise lasted 10 minutes and all commands were
given by the instructor, the men were given
no instruction in testing for the presence of gas by "sniffing".
Ithe gas chamber was semi-excavated, 25X1
woa cons ruc ion, with one door and one window- -thatched and it had a dirt floor,
or War II model because the can
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L041 other men in the Recon. Co., were s ed gas masks.
the mask as a ShM-i, it was a 25X1
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cleaning the eyepieces of the gas mask.
was shown some socks, a cape, and a two-piece suit which were-to
be used as protection against a
during one of the class sessions, the company
the socks and cape appeared to have
an oily coating., and that the two-piece suit looked as if it had
been made of the same type of material dim
11. During another class, the company was shown a container of what was
described by the instructor as a decontaminating agent. This agent
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In the 10th Sep. ad. Bn. (November 1251 - November 1953)
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.be halted and all personnel would don their masks. (2) The truck-
bed of the vehicle would be covered with a regular canvas cover in
order to protect the cargo. (3) The convoy would then resume move-
ment with an increase of distance between vehicles and at a lower
rate of speed.
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instructed to do the following in case of a gas attack wh a driving
in convoy: (1) On command of the convoy commander the vehicle would
in time of war the chemical corps -"a
the responsibility of setting up decontamination units for the
nurnosge of decontaminating: vehicles.
where were
passengers in the vehicle it would .seen the river's duty to
get them to some type of shelter after which he would be required
to return to his vehicle and remain with it.
was no chemical personnel in the battalion
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TRAINING
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on biological warfare. The lecture was given by a a ion offic;Or 25X1
which an area coun be contaminated. It also covered the different 25X1
types of biological reactions that could take place.
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