MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE TEMPLIN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500150002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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GO UN Germany (Soviet
TOPIC Mlitary Iri orrxation ffrnri tihp TP n1in r--
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E-ATE PREPARED 27 Oove.,Jbor 1950
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1? On 31 October 1950 it was observed that Carip llar::rnelsprin , in the
Terrrolin (N att/U 31) area consisted prirmarily of small wooden
barracks, each about 23 meters l onc, L to 5 peters wide and
capable of accommodating about 30 soldiers. The barracks had roofs
of rail l.uraber, some covered with tarpaporo hoot of the barracks did
not have chimneys. There were several storage sheds, wooden garages
and parking lots scattered over the entire camp area. There ;were
some large wooden buildings in about the center of the camp Those
were apparently a motion picture theater, ?eesshal1, and officers a
billets a The camp roads? about 6 motors ivride,, wee unirraroved forest
lanes which had been packed solid by traffic. The windows of about
90 percent of the barracks were boarded up
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2. The guard personnel in the northern section of the camp nu bored about
400. About 50 soldiers, who wore red bordered black epaulets, were ob-
served repairing grid boarding up barracks in the northeastern camp
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About 20 soldiers w? th trucks
along the road running northwest toward LTcheno
Local residents stated that troops who had stayed in the maneuver area
left about three reeks a o, going to their winter quarters in Bernau,,
Lberswaldo and Bad Freienwalde, *
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red bordered black epaulets
these troaDso About 30 other soldiers wearing
cut good on the western edge of the drill field. A truck
hauled timber. atrols were observed throughout .the. camp
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3. A pontoon bridge was observed near the Kannenburg ,lock0 Four loan-to
roofs serving as tank shelters, and two wooden garages were located
north of the locks
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Commento The re. -port confirms previous infor x.,a?tion by another
source that most of the olements of both the 6th Gds IAecz Div and
the 25th Tank Div loft the Templ.in maneuver area.9 and that only snail
labor and guard details of the 6th ads 'cz Div and of headquarters- units
of the Fourth Gds I ocz briny re=ii ned in the caripc
The JS tank and the two trucks belonged to the 25th Tank Div,, probably
to a rear detail or salvage detail. For a. sketch of C mp Isar c,1el spr~.n ~,
dra from memory,, see Annex.,
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