SOVIET TROOPS IN STENDAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003700490001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Soviet .,one of Germs,. sr
TOPIC_ soviet Troops in
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EVALUATION ;gee belcg-.Y PLACE OBTAINED
DATE , XS~NTENT 3e e b el ow
nnrr rtarQeQc:n 27 October 1949
DATE OETAINE
REFERENCES-
e- ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE)
22 ueust 1.49
1. An antitank artillery unit returned to the Tauentzien Kaserne,
S E11 DAL (M 53/Y 85) from a field exercise in the evenings.
25X1A The jeep occupied by officers, one 33U-76 se:'.f9-
propelled gan and six trucks mere observed !,ith the unit,
Each truck 'r7as occupied by 20 to 25 troops and hauled one
antitank un of about 50 zm c n =,.her ~ 1i?e truck nunbers
25X1 mere secu_reda
25X1X
2 Je ,tember 1949
2. The STENO":L occupation t'?oops numbered about 1,8009 The Vol-
la ring observations mere made:
25X1A
a. Tlindenbur 1;.aserne: Occupied by mol,orized units of abou`;
500 7?oop s including a large signal unit -hich r'as allegedly
directly subordinated to a high unit headquarters.
;I w 3.-axle trucks ry9re stored in the garages of tre kaserne.
The motor vehicle numbers 25X1 A
ere nbserved.
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b. Albreeht-der -Baer Kaserne: Occupied by a .igh wit head
quay re saa d Sion headquarters. he hea4quarters
personnel, incl7-sding; the headquarters unit, nunbered about
three hundred.
About 60 T 34 tanks and a number of motor vehicles 'ere st