VOLKSPOLIZEI UNITS IN THE SCHWERIN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700170008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 8, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS 1171 CATION-A
Soviet gone of Germany
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TOPic Volksoolize.i Units in the Sc'iwerin Area
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k5XlA _DA1'E PREPARED !'?ti"ust 19-50
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and the Grenz,)olizeileitung ':lest (headquarters of border police in the
western re;ion) are believed to be in the -Ate Grenadier Kaserne, The VP
recruits observed may have belonged to the regular police or the border
police
25X1 A " Comment, The lot VP fereitschaft of Land Mecklenburg was :>reviously
z led-iii. Sternbuchholz? It is believed to nuunber about 1,00 police
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1~ The Alte Grenadier Kaserae on Guestrower Straw ,e, Schwerin (M 54/T 46),
housed about 300 VP recruits in mid-June 1950, Me men were quartered
in the Mm Guostrower Tort' building, i.r. a s :ali. aor-tex building, and in
two I.srxporar;,W barracks, An unliovm number of additional recruits were
seen arriving there, The VP recruits in the installation received polit-
ical indoctrination and basic trai.njn ;, * b
2E, Allegedly 2,000 to 3,000 VP recruits were quartered in the temporary
barracks in the Stern bb>uch Holz traini.nl area in mid.-June 1950< The recruits
received .field training and drivers' training on full-track, vehicles,
3 Machine guns, bazookas and ammunition for the VP idorc stored in shed No. 11
of the installation near the : acktanneno
4, Captain Anaziev (fns) was identified as Soviet liaison officer ? .th the
VP unit in Sternbuclfholz in June 1950. He always wore civilian clothes.
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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