MILITARY INFORMATION FROM POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700600012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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111ELLO Ah. `w %VINIPQ NTIAL
CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Tr4 7,. n si?en?ncM.o
TOPIC Military Information f rnm. TInt.dn.
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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PAGES 5 ..ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)....
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On IF) June 1950 the quarters at 115--121 2rnst Thaelmannstrasse,a Babels--
berg (': 53/Z 6 were guarded by soldiers-wearing black epaulets.
L aio trruck and motor vehicles
were seen in back o the quarters. (1)
through the grate at the Dre1 itv,
entered the restricted area
Four groups of 50 men wearing iA.ack->bordered red epaulets were repeatedly
seen undergoing infantry traLning in the "Generalsquadrat" iNeuer Garten
between 26 and 30 June 19 O. 50X1-HUM
About 150 soldiers walked from th;_.. sa._re installation to the scai;:vning
pool on 7 July 1950. (2)
The !'CC school on Jaegera .lee was lightly occupied from 26 to 30 June
1950 the troops frcm the instaj.la 50X1-HUM
tion were at Doeberitz for field exercises, each unit having left behind
a rear detail of about 25 men. Observations made on 3 July 1950 indi-
cated preparations for the return of the troops. (3)
ra .71-road station on 10' June 1950. (1)
On 3 July 1950 90 soldiers wearing black.-'bordered red epaulets and
carrying rifles marched from the Garde Ulanen x(aserne on Ja_ E;erallee,
Potsda::, to Bornstedter Feld., n sere they held _ formation drill.
soldiers wearing green epaulets marched past the barrier an .brecht--
strasse or., 27 June 1950. The troops L elonged to an . VD unit billeted in
private houses on Lan hansgass~
6. An, -VD general is said to be billeted in Grosse rein misterstrasse.
Trucks with trailers were
parked in front of the house on 6 July 1950. They were loaded with
boxes, 150x50x50 cm,which positively did not contain a-zaunition. (4)
CONFIDENTIAL
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This doCUMent Is hereby regraded to" -- -
,CONF)DENTIAL In, accordanr~a U,~th +na 1 ~ '
terrer of 16 October 1978 from the
wrector of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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CONFIDENTIAL
7. (n 7 July 1950 it as barred that 200 of'f'icers .doo had been billeted
in the former Kr?ie;,;sschule had moved to a hotel on Hes: eoLracso. (5)
C. Units in military formation totsli-n., at least 5,000. officers and
arrived at I_euuer Carton after !,. p.rie or L. July 1950 for a performance
by a Soviet dcri cin-~-' a se. ;blew i 'otor vet ic? es
were oL:sorved there4
Twenty AF officers and. 300 A acmes::?:.r:el artived at the railroad station
from the direction of Brardenh um*. Officers, 17C0s and drivers t:oro mnr
decorations, but the ?u:, about l to 20 years old, did not. (6)
u, acr: epau ets coved along Stalin Allee to-ward Nk.,dlitz on L. July 1950.
All 6oviet officers in Potsdam carried pistols. 50X1-HUM
10, On 1 July 1950 it was learned that several office chiefs, including, the
following, were replaced during the last, three weeks:
,a. Coryachev, (fnu),, previously chief of the SCC Kech office in the
Soviet constriction yard at h a fehi r tstrasse, Potsdt_~:;t, was,
replaced by