RED ARMY OB IN SAXONY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001100920001-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 12, 1948
• Content Type: IR

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OCUNTRY OOZUWW (Russian Zone)
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01ST..'. Jam*ry 1940
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1. E&S (X-?6): Some 1,000 fresh Russian s are r * to have arrived
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tiupee on r erg theft was 047 a
Or JLUV MW there 16 947.
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b. The 88 barracks have been oeeupiad sine 10 Au Vet 1947 1o six oomp hies
(each of 120 non) of technicians and by six int$ntry eompanies each of
about 100 um. They were still there on 13 Sepbetaber 1947. ?fie t abnicel
units consist of tbres engineer companies and three sipal ooimpanies. lhW
war blank shoulder boards with red pipifts the gi=SU have a
silver lightui. flash. Their alase is 1923-
25. The infantry companies war brio > boards id." bb piping.
ThW belceg to the 1923.25 class.
o. The troops eh previouely occupied the "S borxt&ce noTed to the training
in g d at lbnigebruak on 16 August 1947.
d. Cotandau c en is Colonel Se i A
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3? s (o-31): The tanks
pra~-ioutly reported at the Jones Lapr twat.
s there as of 13 September 1947.
4. itua.aitaar Eeag WW District (A-,21),
a. Ssveanal infantry waits were caving on the Lauasnitssr Rei in September
194?. There tiwro estincted to be at least 3,000 troops then i
to the 1922-25 Classes; they wore brick-red shoulder boards piped~In taus.
b. In Laussnf is itself' Mere sop. 4000 bh r-logtix sisoela troop~+ of 00
1923..25 classes; thew were black shou.ldes boards with red piping and silver
lightning flashes. CONFIDENTIAL
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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c. In tK,lelmn uznsdorf were three motorized units numbering about 300 man
of the 1923-QA clasces. They bad eleven American three-exled trot !cs
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have been evacuated.
d. In Krainu there were 2,860 man belonging to infantry units, wearing
brick-red shoulder bocrds piped in blue. They belonged to the 1922-23
classes and looked shabby. They rained in mi=d gratzps.
&SIM-0$ (A-.60) z The eighty tanks which were in Bautzen during the a nx er
of 1947 have loft with the troops then quartered ttaere. Fresh troops have
arrived but no details are available. The Regional 1:omendatura in the
Th)4lrmnnottaa so is being gradually dissolved; it is apparontl,y being split
up between Glitz and Dresden.
6, p1m (F-38):
a. Airborne troops, which are said to have been previously quartered in
Pirna, novod to Copitz (7.?38) by early September 1947. Son e 735 rmn
of a pexachnte unit are quartered in Zatzecbke (F-38). They wear
dark-blue slider-boo.rds with light-blue piping, belong to the 1920--
25 cl.aesos, and present a good appearance. They engage in a great
deal of PT, jumping exeroisee from, heights, and mountain sports in the
Sachaiscbe Sohweiz.
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ba. Although no Red Arrry units are pe,cnmently stationed in Kreis Pima,
a regiment of armored cars peceed through Pirna northwards along the
right bank of the Elbe on 2 September 1947. These armored oars were
about eighty in number. Forty of then were noderri eight-wheeled nodels,
counting a 37 r gm and a naohino gun. Another thirty were older
modals, vainly Fords, while ten were sixL-wheelors of Germ. n origin,
nuznting a 20 nts Flak 38 ;uun.
7. Zeit la I' uvor Area (E-31) x Three armored divisions wore engaged in
exercises here early in September 1947. The maneuvers frequently took
place at ni rt. The presence of strong eneryy air support is alvoye
prosupposed. All f'oiniations havo extre :sly strong AA protection.
8. Wokreh (E-53) t Just south of the railway line at Uockrehne is an
ar mug` tion dtx=o gua:x1od rr,t tsoous wearii black a ioulder utra-ca lrith
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