REDEPOLOYMENT AND EVACUATION OF RUSSIAN TROOPS

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CIA-RDP82-00457R000300200011-8
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1
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November 9, 2016
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December 16, 1998
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11
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January 28, 1947
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IR
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Approved For Release 1999/09/ R 7F013A09200 E {ter CENTRAL T . INTELLIGENCE REPORT COUNMY Ger . /Russian Zone SUBJECT Redeployment and I era .ation of aussisb Troops 25X1A6a ORIGIN 25X1X6 SOURCE 25X1X6 DATE: !NFCL Dl : 2 JwAary 1947 PALS SUPPLEMENT 11 R;x?i"urt An ,o ucl division of 8,000 max was observed in Zrfurt on 13-14 Deceacbor 1946" It arrived from Ohrdruf (J15) the previous creek. This division Is to be redesignated and to receive reInfor nts. 2,, S ,L02: The borsedrawa 706th rtifle Division arrived in Suhl on 7 Oecem4- bar 1946. One thousand five hundred .men including sixty-rand officers, were ptattoned in Sufil. Proper. F"..ve -hundred nsa were distributed to each of the towns of Maehendorf (J02) and lJ ratermafsfeld (01). Zed is J The 217th Penal Battalion arrived from 0hrdr on 7 December 19 4. Meinin n (Hi All troops from the Meinin .en district co=nand we re- called, sent to 'iimar, and later proceeded to Czechoslovakia or Poland in uniform or civilian clothes. , s and equips ent were shipped by rai 1a Of these troops, only forty percent in the older age group are being dis- charged. The evacuation is scheduled for completion by the end of Decem- ber 1946, a cordin? to Order 502. Small command posts retain to break in new elite troops coming from Russia. The latter are Stalin pupils. After their arrival, deployment is scheduled for some man who are now in penal bavtalionass. They may return to their old unit or go to a now one. A portion are to be discharged under Order 5O2:, These are to be formed into a division which later will be dissolved. The Stud! detachments in rrfurt, Zella ablis, and Meinirtgen more trans- ferred to 44in ar on 12 December 1946. 41- 'f thv E; a ted? Stagy., ~}i;c~ ~ei Ch e^,t; '.~ en? r?Jam. 25X1A9a A D ? ~. Mgr GLANS !xIFOP - _I ISSE _1- 25X1A9a