MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200680009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION {oJ!TTROL/US U e I'C I eiL
COUNTkY Soviet Zone of Germany REPORT NO
TOPIC L4 t,:rv Information from Brandenburg
EVALUATION --k--PLACE OBTAINE
PAGES
REFERENCES
DATE OBTAINED-.?I
DATE OF CONTENT
REMARKS
did.-Ayr it to 3 :'gay 1950
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
19"71 r" "
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to
the Pionier Kaserne on Arado
Platz,_ BrandenburgL (N 53/Z 23) , M1 stated in mid-
red in the barracks. Three T 34 tanks
t
e
uar
sere
seen in one garage an nine guns anocner%
When linen was changed, the tank unit drew for
340 men and the AAA unit for 222 men. *
2, On 24 April 1950, five guns of 8o to 100 mm
caliber were emplaced in the former Opel Plant
area near the railroad line leading from Alt-
stedter Bahnhof to the transshipment harbor on
Silo Kanalo The gun crews were accomodated in
nearby earth shelters. A telephone line was
laid from the gun emplacements to the Gergral-
feldzeugmeister Kaserneo **
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301
in April
1950, the following railroad spurs were used by
the specific units :
a, Spur to the Lrado Plant
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ba Spur to the Opel-Exelsior Plant
ca Sur to the Landesanstalt--Briest
resettlers' camp No0 226 and the .ech.
coa ump , ***
4. Four light AA guns were moved into previously
constructed AAA unit emplacements in the Opel
Plant area on 3 May 1950? The gun crews: Caere
ace..ommodated in tents o **
Oora:ze , Periodic reports
indicate that a tank component
of the 10th Gds Tank` Div may be located in . the
Pionier Kaserne at the airfield. The superior
headquarters of the AAA unit repeatedly observed
in the barracks is not ',not,an.
*,, _I 10QLL=?to The emplaced guns probably belong
to the AAA unit in the Pionier Kaserneo
**~ o is assigned to the Doebe-
ritz H of the 1s :iecz iva
is assigned to the ue-er og
253rd Airdrome Bn. confirms the Kramp-
nitz 63rd Gds Tank Reg of - e 10th Gds Tank
Div up to April 1950. Clements of the regiment
may be stationed in Brandenbtirgo was
previously observed with the Soviet army unit at
the I11erseburg ,airfield.
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