REPORTED RUSSIAN TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM THE SOVIET ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200100001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 16, 1946
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. #etw~-en 8 rid 11 November 1,'46, a motorized cartiJ lery! unit and a
i~cr Z _cir~.wn rile urnit dep.rted eastwards from the SchF nebeck area (D78).
2. The Sixteenth Prmored Vrigade which w: s identified at Wei.sswart a, con-
;~isf.iap,, of 3,000 troops and ecuip.ped Ydt.x a''34 tanks, departed between
`3 and 28 No aember 194b. -
'3. The staff of r rifle division and 900 men were transferred from Seehausen
(D49) to }3arlehen (!60) between 26 &nd 28 November 1946.
4. ;.x armored division eta.ff left 13iederitz (1 0) between 23 and 28 November
1191+6, it was allegedly bound for FFussiva. The stora'e depot has been
shifted to the Junke, s ' plant in tagd-hung.
.. As of 21 Nova=' ber 1946, the Fifteenth Rifle Diviiion is 'reported to be ready
ahortiy for transfer out of burg ('1?Si)7
r I fit d> .._ -1-4311 located in ar*deburg (T60)
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betMn 23 rind 28 November 1946.
Eeginninc* 23 iWoveri~tber 1946, large numbers of f ex n&n police were sent to
the Soov~iet-13r itish border area. .1-Some were told that they would be re-~
placed as "soon as fresh Soviet troops arrive.
3. Reports Faf ev'a+:uaticar 3 from Neuha'ldentsleben ('f51), Oschersleben (D48)s
a nd Oahe (ll77), which began towards the end of October, have continued
throw*h november. Troop attacks on the civil population- increased during
? e period preceding the withdrawals.
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CHANGED TQ.e TS S C
DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
Pith: DDA R.G. 77/1763
Date: O2I