MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE AREA SOUTH OF ZEHDENICK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500120002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
TOPIC Id' litanr Information from the Area 111outh o '' ehdonick
EVALUATIORi
DATE OF CONTE`
DATE OBTAIN
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PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
JDAT E PREPARED 14 ` ovember? 1950
a pontoon bridge
had been throrm across the Vocc Canal at the edge of the
town,, on 19 October 12O and had boon removed the follorring
day.
2. On 19 October 19 O I soviet
troops trained in t e L i.n area south of Zohdenick (N 3/u 70)4
h the exception of the hi way leading through the Exin
woods,, all roads and dirt roads in the uohdd~~dick-i~r:;x~elin-+a entha ~
Ber sdorf-K1oinmt-Z area wore blocked to traffic on 19 and 20
October 19,50Q A Soviet signal unit with 30 to 40 trucks, six of
which had bodies with tr:;llis-Shaped antennae mounted, was observed
at flohe Timp, about 2 km southwest of IloinmutzG The personnel of
the signal unit had pitched tents. Numerous tanks, artillery
,)iec?s, mortar,, trucks and passenger cars, apparently coning from
the direction of Vogolsan , moved along the highway through the
in woods. Some. of the vehicles turned into side roads. Soviet
troops with motorcycles, tanks, armored scout ears_ artillery
pieces, mortars a.re': trucks were about to establish bivouacks in
the woods near Li&ienbergQ The vehicles seemed to have come from
the direction of Nciuruppina
3. letween 9 and 10 a m,, on 20 -ctobor 1950, 32 trucks carrjing
pontoons and bridge bum equipment, were observed in Hoeg en, 50X1-HUM
betwo n Itre lin and Liebexwralde Q
Hine other trucks passed through 50X1-HUM
Zehdenick at 2 p.m., heading toward Camp Vorolsan? 50X1-HUM
4. Soviet columns which passed through Zehdenick at intervals of
30 to 60 minutes on 21 October 1950, coming from the direction of
the -fin woods and proceeding toward the camp, included one con oo
two motorcycles,
12 personnel carriers cari-jin ; about 14 soldiers each,, and c i f ht
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small, scout cars; a second convoy of 39 trucks
carryin z troons and to tng 25 mrttavw,; a third convoy of nine trucks.,
carrying troops and towing nine heavy mortars:
one personnel carrier; a fifth convoy of 13 truck
towing 13 artillery pieces, and one jeep; a sixth convoy of two trucks
occupied by troops, and t me ambu-
12. ce : au a seven convoy o17 ruck;
a fourth convoy of 0. canvas-cov:,rod trucks
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carryin ; troops and towing
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On 21 October 1910, 15 T-3t tanks were soon at the Vogelsang railroad
.station, apparently ready to be loaded on a train a' rryin; troops
in boxcars, and 12 trucks passed 50X1-HUM
throu"h Vogelsang toward ' ota? in on 22 October 1; 5
elements of the Fourth Gds Locz Army was conducted in the area south of
Zohdenick during the period covered by subject rep orto
It is therefore ooseible that a several-day final Hall exercise of the
presumably engaged in the exercises mentioned, 150X1-HUM
had been unloaded from to trains in G ehdonick on 13 October 1950 wore
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Comment. The roport states that field exercises, including bridging
practice, were hold in the area south of Zehdonick 19 and.22
October l250A t the troops par- 50X1-HUM
ticipatint in the exercises were headquarters uanite, including en.-;.necr
and, probably, signal units, of the Fourth Ode 1:eez :lm y, numerous elements
of the 25th Tank Div, and olomonts of the 6th Gds ? cz .Diva the 7th Ode :,ecz
Div and the 10th Gds Tank Div. It is h,lieved that only a few elements of
the last three divisions participated. Troops of the 10th Ode Tank Div who
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