RUSSIAN UNITS IN BRANDENBURG, BRIEST, AND KIRCHMOSER

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CIA-RDP82-00457R001800920009-6
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
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December 22, 2016
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October 20, 2011
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9
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Publication Date: 
September 13, 1948
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REPORT
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50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/20: CIA-RDP82-00457R001800920009-6 -x 7~A0~ ~~i ~.'W?AAt *r` CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT Iussi, Units in 3randenburg, 3riest, and Kirchzntser COUNTRY Gernny (Russian Zone) S U D.! ECT PLACE ACQUIRED co The I desanstalt is the site of Rede l went Camp 226 "Traine3.nheit" U. S. C.. 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THS SEVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ARV NANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO- HIBITED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS IORH IS PROHIBITED. HOW Z-23) The artillery barracks by Artillery officers and their dependents occupy the quarters of fouler prison er.^ployeez. The penitentiary itself i^ alle,,,,ed to house TND arrestees. unit ??rith Onrran trucks erg I FO R AT - T do The hospital Is not occu-'ied. Itr administrative buildings house Soviet officers and their dependents to a total of 300-400 persons, A transport USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS are entirely occupied, Thy, fitteldeutsches Stahl- u. 'Talzuerk is beinr di>criar_tled. Its acb- inistraa tion building is believed to houso the airtort konendatura. A sin po .ntinr; to this tpzilding reads: K03 V 10MM .. The Opel con-r.Iound, next to the 'Ta1zT~r'., is used as a durm for ins,, vohiclea, znd other Gerr-an Arny oq went. It is r corded by Gerrity police armed with carbines, 50X1-HUM h. T3ouendorf airfield contains a Soviet Air Force school) At the field are approxiriately 3,000 SAF troops and 1,000-1,500 officers and de-= pondents. There are forty fighters resenbling the M-13.2. 50X1-HUM Taro hanrars are In ^.ood condition, two other-- ve been dana7ed or iim:zantled. 50X1-HUM __ CLASSIFICATION AWWWrl NAVY NSP.B DISTRIBUTION Doc ent No. ~..,.. NO HANGS in ClasS. MOM Class. CHANGED TO: TS S FIDENTIAL DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77 50X1-HUM Auth : DDA. R_G. 77 " Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/20: CIA-RDP82-00457R001800920009-6 DATE DISTR. 13 September 1948 NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) E~p ~i~ Q REPORT ( (THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/20 : CIA-RDP82-00457R001800920009-6 ercorm CENTRAL I T: LL tS i NCY time 147D groan of Brandenburg. Guards number 80-100 non. i. Neuendorferstraese prisons opposite PNikolai Cemetery, hou3es the r. in opera- 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Excelsior-';erke, tdilmersdorferstrasse: supply derot and repair shop for communications e i nt firearms spare rtsa The repair unit of 200- 300 non 50X1-HUM k. Kloster Barracks: Wirtschaftskomondatura .i. m. Estimated Brandenburg strength: 10,000 military, 2,000 dependents. ,02. Brier' (Z-13) bombardier school with 800 man, a. Aircraft: approximately fifty planes resembling the 'E--109 and ten RATA types. c. Runways are bein,,r lengthened and covered.with concrete. Training includes firing on tow sleeves. Prescribed altitudes are not observed, with the re- sult % hat exercises take place near the Berlin air lift corridor. 50X1-HUM 3. K I rel'rri er (Z-32.) a. Thin tnr-k r?na.ir unit r.? about 2_000 non In addition to re- pairing tanks for Russian Zone troops, the unit repairs others from Kalini.n- grad, Brant-Litovsk, and the Russian interior. It is rumored that the depot will be shifted to Kaliningrad in the near future o b. Among the Kirchmaer depots customers are the following Halle Eberswalde Brest-Litovsk Luth,igslust leimar 3 tterbog Velten Ludwigslust 4. Signal Corps troops in canouflaraed trucks 50X1-HUM were seen In the Garden area (Z--23) about 1 August. Four overhead field lines were set up between Orden and Rathenow, and it was expected that raneuvers would shortly take place in the Brandenburg; Rathenow area. er,enrT CONFIDENTIAL" Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/20: CIA-RDP82-00457R001800920009-6