MILITARY INFORMATION FROM PLAUEN
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580015-9
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RIPPUB
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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
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EVALUATION pLACE OBTAINED_ I
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DATE OBTAINED
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.DATE PREPARED
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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,
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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
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Lo A rear detail of not more than 30 men
on 24 August 19500 .:.tor vehicles
billeting area, x-
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;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,
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10 On 16 August 1950 it was learned that a iatterrj with motor vehicles
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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.,
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