SOVIET TROOPS IN THE VIENNA AREA KLOSTERNEUBURG, KARNEUBURG, MISTALBACH AND ST. PEALTAN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500200008-7
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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troops r.ith tares,, motor vohiclos and b lletint? 50X1-HUM
equigmeraz were unloaded at the Vi.enna-4. stz1.?insdorf railroad station
early in the Y> mIxi of 22. Uc aber 19a,}Oa i' fesh tracks made, by. cater-'
pillar trees were seen lea dini from the railroad station to the Trost
Kaserne, i?;i1 let1 :te equipnont was still hea.i- u loaded dux i m" the after-
noon. ( )
2a On . October 19530 Scviat soldiers in eoverEa - w e
tank in the area of the Trost s je e
tank true k , d trucac s
ere seen there, (3)
Trucks
lea-w~ J~-.ils'.E:.#:Ii+4ic'~', +gwiti..=.Lr3.~de.:~w.i. ? .? r.. ex-ate
Ysef. a seen in the t raa. age near the
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were in the a^'e on ajj&j
a} ;tassel, abbe carafe vras app renitly occu-
pied to capacity
5qM1 The bakery on s~.Yf Davy~ q,ss ms'se had res4d.: f ed o a+1pe py~n
id-.;a_'-?at-io,
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6. Filitary act .: city was Berl a ; th ho ,oit l cn Leibnitz asset, al thourth the
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ya 4 not y t resumed o,~ger3tiona, (1
7. In the mornin:t of 20 Or toi er 5O the ?z~reca at Kaserne and the ; i:1: elta
?Casorno i ere a.,a1.n occupied 1 t ^eotss. No troops had bCf,'ifl Sony th
the "t on a:f 19 :: c tohc r -!)50,, '7hlc c uar?ters of the t- o installations 50X1 -HU M
were `4 bin', oliced... included ..on.: about 60' motor vola c1osooon vnd 4.1-to
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8. Fences were repaired and lean-to roofs erected at the fuel dump
opposite the Albrecht Kaserne,, (1)
9. The afternoon of 21 Octo'Der 1950 the Artillorie Kaserrne on Land
wehrstrasse, Kaisereborsdorf (P h9/K l8), was occupied by tank
troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets, mostly with tank
insignia. No armored vehicles were seen. About 15 trucks
were parked in the barracks yard. Two boxcars with :turn-
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- garian inscriptions vrere unloaded on the spur track of the installa-
Klosterneuburg
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and . equipment arrives? in Klosterneuburg (0 49/o' 30) the night of --- -
19 October, on 20 October and the night of 20 October 1950? Another
troop, train, cocain; from the direction of Tul n (0 49/3 10), arrived
on 20 October, while a second train was being unloaded. (1)
1.14 weapons and motor vehicles unloaded or moved to the various billeting
areas included 20 AT guns both with and without muzzle brake,, 10
canvas-covered tanks, apparently of type T-3L1., in the yard of the
former engineer equipmen+? depot, eight heavy machine guns mounted on
two wooden spoked wheels and equipped with a small shields two mortars
of about 80-mm caliber on a round base plate of abotat 1 meter diameter,
six field kitchens, four jeeps, five motorcycles and 50 trucks. (1) 50X1-HUM
13, The troops observed in Klojterneubur were between 19 and 23 years of
agar Sane of them seemed to be at the post ibr the first irst time. The
troops wore red-bordered black epaulets with tank, motor transport
and signal insignia. Two captains wore engineer insignia, (1)
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14L On 21 October 1950 only guard details were observed in the ., z-
he?rzog Karl Kaserne and the cantonment on Michael Hofer-Zo le,
p."istelbach (f 49/0 53). The guards ware red--bordered black epau-
lots. Large quantities of bogie heels and caterpillar tracks
for tanks were seen. (2)
Korneuburg
:i5, On 17 October 1950 about 50 soldiers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets were drilling in. the yard of the Albrecht Kaserne i
Korneuburg (P 49/8 0 . Motor vehicles seen in the billeting
area included ,1cen ambulance pgssengor car
track and motor veaic
Twenty heavy AA guns without muzzle brakes, 40 medium AA guns and
about 10 AA machine guns were seen in the cantonment on the road to
3 i samber g (P L9/5 30). About 80 soldiers from the Albrecht Kaserne
did gm drill in the cantonment area, (3)
37, Officers wearing red-bordered black epaulets were observed in the
Soviet office at 7-9 Uovengasso. A major seemed to be the ranking
officer. Trucks were in the
garage, opposite the
St., Poelten
office. (3)
13,, On 12 October 1950 truck; driven by a soldier with blaclc
bordered red epaulets, and trucks loaded
with wooden boxes and bags, moved from a aoviet office on the western
side of Josefstrasse, between Cehulrin and Zchubortstrasse, to the
main railroad station. They were unloaded at the loading ramp on
the eastern side of the railroad, station, They were followed by other
trucks, also driven by soldier: wearing black-bordered red epaulet.,
jot: 'n nts"
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of the cor:ponents of the 13th Gds ecz Div had returned to their
posts by 21 October 1950, having completed the training period at
Doellersheix,
Ehrz aerzog Karl Kaserne, '.;i stelbach
a penal unit was located in the 50X1-HUM
The report indicates that the components of the CIS' AAA unit of the
Central 'iroup of forces, possibly the 23rd ii.'ui Div or iegt y .were at
their Korneuburg post on 17 October 1950..
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(ti) Trucks of the 95th Gds Litz Rifle Div. Some elements of the
division, were probably back from thy: Oocilershei troop
train:in ; grolui.ds,
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