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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000360001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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. Troops at Aimini. practice -with si. AT runs 0: about 100 mm caliber were
seen at the drill ground of tneDoeberitz (N 53/Z 65) Panzer Kaserne
on 4e. Februriry 1950? ,,ach 'un Aac. manned by one officer and six
wearing red-bordered black epaulets. After tri. actice, the
1.un crews mount -d a carbine vith inse-ted subc;-Clibez tube on the
gun barrels ? rid fired at t,-..r:ets 15 to.".:0 ?,eters distant from tae
guns. :...ach 'soldier fired three rounis? The firirr:- practice over, the
EY, pulled the guns to the Flak Aaserne whtle the officers walked to
Olyr,pisches 'Dorf.
2. Zight 145/8'; tanks left the i-anzer Laserne or :Lohrbeck,Lt: peril,.eter of
Altes Lager, on 2. Febrilar:i lcr50. They drove totard !;.ustermark at h speed
of 40 to 50 Ic7' and .L.,rr,ed off tcwa:d the troop tr,.7inini_ erounds near the.
Loewen Kaserne, The tanks were observ d to return at, about 4 p.
3. About 250 troops bidd rifle and light machine gun record practice it the
tfiret rani:es about 500 ir.eters ea,.:t of the Loerea Kaserne on 2 ..,:arch
1950. The troops wore rd-bwrde:.cd black epav.J.ets; :nr)y o( them had
closely croA)ed nair..
An artillery firi pracLice observe -3 on 9 ...:arch 1950 took the owinL
course':
a. Twelve trucl.s towin, nowit,zers ..ore th,,n 150 ctliber
preached alonc, Heerstrasse fro,? the direr.tionr A1Le Later r.i proceeded
to the woods and the broom t.icKet tsee Anne."). Truck r-3-4),6
identified. .wo trucks were ior-ded tith E to 10 em.u.lUon boAes but
100 x '(0 x 60 cm in size, The trucks went in-,o cover in sm broom thicket
and were cbmouflaged wIt4 brushwood,
b. The guns werE- tipinced and camouflaged with nets laid bruLnwood.
About moun s of protective earth were erected in front of each
gun emplacemeit And covered with od..zach ,un WAS AAnned by ono NCO
And six M. All troops i.volved in he exercise wore red-bord
epriulets with artillery islenia. The exercise trt su ervised
efficerS.
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