MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006900640001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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, OPIC Military Inform ti oa from i;ra.ndenl.'ar
DATE OF CONTENT.
4 to 15 December 1950
DATE PREPARED uu r
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1, Between 4 and 1.5 i)eco b.-r 19 O, 1. tc uards at the Flak Kas:.'rne on
Ea,,-deburg::rsV?asse, Brandenburg (i3 537: 23), score red-0bordored 1.1ack
e-')aulets, six barracks buil.din;;s -.Jere occupied to ca )acity by al.out
soldiers
1?000 troops. In the }.arracks yard, groups of
and r vin^ nstruction on 'Li,:-.-ht AT rrun
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3. On 4 December, gate ]?uards at the Generalfe]d.zeu Leister Kaserne on Lia.de-
burvorstrasse wore red-bordered black e-)aul??ts, The install:~tion ;as
occuoied to capacity o No.traini.n. activity was observed in the barracks
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5. On 4 Decembor, the AA gun emplacement at the Opel building as no
longer occupied,
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6. On 7 December, maintenance work was done on si:;, T--3i tanks which were
parked between the workshop buildings in the trado Plant area,
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7o Gate guards at the infanterie Kaserne on Magdeburgerstrasse, which is
adjacent to the Flak Kaserne ore red-bordered black epaulets. The in-
stallation quartered about 2,000 troops,
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Comments
the installation
L occupied to capacity .by e. emen s a the r
?osszbl the 3d iOds of the Y` YIY .tz iifle Gores.
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(5) The ..ra(io PL.=:nt area is WAievec to be the former -ra o airr.ze ..p on
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to be loc: tec m j ie )ro::en ro..)ort inc,icu s that a ta_ik repair shop
of the 63d, ids Tank Rest of the 101.11 ;ds Tank Div in ilrandeztur;~ may
be located there,
(6) x'roba?ly the Kuerassier Kaseraey which .- at, occ:u pioci b . scar vin units
until the end ol" ':orid '.ar II. The installation ra re-ort(d. t:) have
iuart: red artillery units in :)econbor 1949.
The ?)resont re--)ort a.ndicates that the barracks inu allation :ia heavily
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