SOVIET TANK FIRING RANGE SOUTH OF WEISSWASSER.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600130002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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I - ovi et tank firing range was observed in the N001ITEN
(0 52/A 73) - :BOXBRG (0 52/A 73) area. Two T 34 tanks
practiced firing at 3 x 3-foot tar.`ete from a distance
of about 1,300 feet. 'ruck wao stand,in d beside
the to nIcs .
2. Soldiers erected tele hone masts between B0XB.RG and
NOCHTEN. Truck witn these
soldiers.
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4. The road from (0 52/A 74) via allbIC46U (0 52/
A 85) to NIESKY (0 52/A 92) was blocked to civilian
traffic becauae of trop-,. movements.
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as in mid-July. 1949 that five
thousand troops were quartered in the RSX ;Ht/ALDL (0 52/
A 83) camp in mid-June 1949 and that tank and infantry
unit field exercises were held northwest of i3IOTS0 i N on
12 July 19491
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of ti1e 9tl iuteez Jiv Care were o served there.
It is therefore assu,ued. t1iot units of t to 9tA ecz .)iv
(cadre) also held field, ex; xeiees in the & ICHdALD: -
R..1.: Ta0HSN area. This assumption, is supported by the above
report. It is doubted that large contingents of the 9th
.,Iecz .172v (Cadre) should have been located in the dLIOII-
4J.4I-DS--RIt"TaOHBW area up to that time. They were probably
advance details which m de preparations for larSe-scale
maneuvers in the area a0butia of WEISS JAS $ R.
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