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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004700380001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CON ENT 19 and 30 J anuarv 1950
DATE OCTAII'IM
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_] 1 aTnranterie xserne on Lon .natrasse:
25X1 ()coupled on 19 Tanuary 1950 1:;` an AAA unit mostly reeruitse
The unit c+mms alletfedly coramanded by a general
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CONFiD: i_ in c dance with the
letter ct C, rc -::e- 1978 from the
Director -ai inteT,gence to the
Archiv.'C. United States.
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b. :.rtillerie .nerne on Lon1nstrassea
occupied by a unit wearing red-bordered grc;en epaulets on
19 January 195D.
o, -Lrtillerie Icaserno ? Zbersdorf:
Soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets were seen on
19 ao.nuary 1950.
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d, yr ak Kasorne (,,s: i iunitiun ucpot) , bor:.;dorf:
a a InThr,terie Yas;xne on Loninstrasse:
x.s usual occupied on 30 Jrinu^ry 1950 by about 1,200 troops,
mostly recruits. .soldiers more red-bordered black epaulets,
some frith artillery insignia.
Three ,runs, si .ailar to the Ger:,ran 88-mm. kA sun, were stored
in a Garage.
b. -?rt illerie L:4 Serno an Leninstrasse:
?;n 3C J,-.nu:?ry 1950 occupied by about 5,-.0 troo2?s t-rith red-
bordered r;rcen epaulata, a11e,edly t:lllitary police unit.
up to the end of 1949, 15 to 20
r ediun tanks he. rerluen y left the kaserne, but in late,
January 1950 only one or two Sp guns were occasionally seen
to leave.
I Comment :
a . The report conf ir:.is the bulk of the GHQ, (8th Gda?)
A%A Div as being in the lnfanterie Caserne on Leninetra$Se
and component units of the let :.w Border Regt in the .~rtil-
lerie j aserne on ?Lcllinstrasse.
b. Cor:rponcnt units of the 8th Gds .'ecz. L-iv, possibly the
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19th Gds =- Y stationed in the rt
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