MILITARY INFORMATION FROM SEALFELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000260008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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2~ a, " .) The bar:r acks ware allegedly occupied by an
infee try battalion and a tank unit on 24. :;:arch 19?50:,
The tank unit was said to have orriv ed by rail fro
Jena on 20 February 19 0,, while another tank unit,
which had bean staticr i.r. the barracks moved cut..,
A service station attendant observed 15 to' 20 Sa
guris and 30 to 35 tans ~,a total of 0 a rrmor.ed
vehicles) being detraineu. with the newly arrived
urr1.t: A 'laundry e:npa oyes stated that 4,'.z e troops ;
the barracks numbered about i.,,000.,
(2) Ten T34 tanks, accomkrars:lad by five itrucks, left
the barracks for field training....
b, No changes were observed at the kor.iaandature,,
The guard detail was furia.iehed by the infantry unit
in the barracks,
c.: The ho8,t}ita1 in the .i?f ortenschule had
ofc'a tients
a normal number
c The :.ITD office was of a ittarjus` : fras~, :
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 113 October 1978 from the
Director of Central inte:ll ence to the
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9 deserter stated, in late October 1919,; that tho
120th Gds IiAtz Rifle Div and the 15th (Gdse) rank
_L Arty Regt of the 39th Ods ~Jtz Rifle Div were
stationed in Saalfeld.., The units are still assured
t, be there, it is possible, how.wwever5, that elements
of the motorized rifle re/rir ent may have been. trmns-
1rerred to the zonal border for guard duty as only
one ba ttal i n was reportedly quartered in the
brarracks
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Li view of the general.. situation in Saalfeld,, the
statement tt,at a tank unit should have been exchanged
there is doubted,,
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