GERMAN BORDER POLICE IN MACKLENBURG AND BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400200010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Soviet Zone)
German Border Police
in Mecklenburg and Brandenburg
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1,, al. VP headouarters with two 00-man Lereitschaften
was st^tionod in 1Lehna (.:: 54/T 11.) in early ~Lpril
19504 The .:oreitschaften, whose reroonnel ca'io
fro'? uaxony, were ?:iuipped with carbines, pistols
anc sole light ' achine t unso One was co; anded by
an -Iberko ^ +issar, the other by a i.o ?Assnr.
2. a o It was learned in early April 1950 that the
strength of the uoviot border guard detachments
in 's'hurow (1~ 54/1 04), Utoeht, : chlagbruo ~e and
Jeckovi had been reduced about 50 percent during
the last six nonths o :`gin e Wiplnye e ^f the f -reve s-
muohlen 20)eounty olsin f office said
that the dotac11nonts 3., could allegedly leave that
area and their quarters would be taken over by
the Gerian border Police
b. The Ger",an Gronzpolizeiko'- Lando "Ost controls
Grenzpolizeiko??Inandanturen in ,crrntur ,. 3e)
Zarrentin (.: 54/T 15), Gay' ebus ch ' -,, 54 Ti` 27) and
.Loizenburg (..b 54/6 93). The Gadebusch 0renzpolizei-
ko'i iandantur had been located in ~oC endorf
(s:s 54/1.2 17) until a short time au?oo 'i;`
Ilie f ollowin Gerrlan Grenzpolizeikommandos, each
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with about 30 police, were identified In westc rn
Brandenburg b :tweet 3 and 6 a~pril 1950:
This document is hereby regraded to
4 letter 'of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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a_ioodlich (.. 54/:. 40)
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G arc? of 54/T 50)
rustraw (}., 54/T 50)
Lenzon (,;l 54/T 40) : Korv'tandantur at 1
Jafinstrass, cojM ?anded by V :at i,ensehel, whose
deputy was V .o ,issar G yerb
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Cow rent : i.y l ereitsehaf ten presu-!ably
referred t renzpolizeiko andanturen.. This assu-z :-
tion is corroborated by the statement that the units
nwttered E30 police each, ~5,hich is the average
strength of a G?renznolizeikorinandanturo
* : F-----1:;o-t1.ent The ",renzpolizeiko ?andanturen are
known frog previous reports.
*4. The Grenzpolizeikoinandos are known
fro?i previous r ports.
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