MILITARY INFORMATION FROM PLAUEN

Document Type: 
Collection: 
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580015-9
Release Decision: 
RIPPUB
Original Classification: 
S
Document Page Count: 
2
Document Creation Date: 
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date: 
January 7, 2004
Sequence Number: 
15
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
September 26, 1950
Content Type: 
REPORT
File: 
AttachmentSize
PDF icon CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580015-9.pdf133.39 KB
Body: 
~~ ENTIASA Approved-For, Release 2004/04/15 : C154-14bPB2-00457F4006100580015-99 COUNTRY IWU n4' n.own t r -REPORT NO..J EVALUATION pLACE OBTAINED_ I DATE OF CONTE= `" 16 +?n 9c: Anmic+. '10t,'n 25X1A DATE OBTAINED REFERENCES- PACES RE4`AARKS., .DATE PREPARED ENCLOSURES QNo. & 'TYPE) 25X1 25X1 post in Plauen a few days before, 2. A battery was landed at the freight station of Plauen on 16 August 1950, Troops in si.-- boxcars and four 105 field hot .tzers trucks and limbers on sL% flatcars Were observed, 25X1A 3. On the evenings of 23 and 2 August 1950 lights were seen in the first a::-d second floors of only one :wilding of the Infaterie Kaserne. Fifty to sixty soldiers were estimated to be there0 25X1 A I Lo A rear detail of not more than 30 men on 24 August 19500 .:.tor vehicles billeting area, x- 25X1A 25X1A ;ainc enburg; Kaser: ie 50 The rear detail of the artillery unit in the Artil.l..s ry Kaserne was estimated at 10 to 20 men, * The top floor of the barracks building occu- pied by a signal twit was recently .0 so lighted0 The signal unit had about 60 men and was commanded by a c p tain who was usually accompei ied by two other officers. A trailer--truck id an antenna, 8 to 10 meters high., with four braces were observed in the yard, .6. An observation platform on the roof of a building on Zaderastra.sse was con,- tinually occupied by two soldiers, I. rod antenna was observed beside the wcoden platform whcih was about two meters high, 70 Two radio stations were 300 to 1$000 meters :rest of the Artillerie Kasorne. Each station had four masts, about 1131 meters high, .grouped around a tent and a wooden cabin from i;hiich a rod antennas about 3 peters high, projec ted, 25X1A 25X1 10 On 16 August 1950 it was learned that a iatterrj with motor vehicles Approved For Release 2004/04/15 : CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580015-9 CLASSIFICATION :'-had returned to its (i : SQL/K 12) Approved For Release 2004/04/15 : CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580015-9 CCL.F?DLNTIA -4 25X1 ZLL; 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A Comment. The inform tion indicates that artillery units of 25X1 0 &re stationed in Plauen were rotated between the post and a troop training, ;rounds, 25X1 A** mm"t? The information on the occupation of the barracks agrees th observations on 12 August 19501 25X1 It indicates that most of the troops from .Plauen., compo- nent units of the 39th Gds ~,Ttz Ri le Divehere still at a troop training grounds an 25 Aut?ust 1950. 25X1 A orriento The signal unit which moved into the Artillerie Kaserne In April 1~. 0 has been periodically reported since that time. 25X1A It is a headquarters unit of the First Gds ..iecz Ater., 25X1 Cp~FID~NTIAL 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/04/15 : CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580015-9