MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EBERSWALDE

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP82-00457R007100180008-0
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date: 
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date: 
March 17, 2001
Sequence Number: 
8
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Publication Date: 
February 7, 1951
Content Type: 
REPORT
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~'f0` ~a Appr or Release 2001/04/13: t IUe.ITRY CLASSIFICATION `'? ', Germany (Soviet Zone) TnPir tfzl itar * Information from gibers tilde 25X1 A 25X1A REMARKS- -ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)- 25X1X 1. No changes in the occupation of the ~)chuetzen Kaserne on i1ernauerr strasse? Zberswalde (N 53/V 08 ), were observed between 2 and 5 Jan- uary 1951. 0 )out 83 :)ercent of the barracks windows visible from the autside were lighted on the evening of 5 January. A laborer employed there said that the installation was occupied to capacity. The strength and the branches of service of the various units quartered there could not be deteruinod. AAA troops seemed to have constituted the largest contingent of troops who have been quartered there since the fall of 1250, when the installation was re?ortoc to have beaa,n -"u11,"7 occupied. The order of strength of the other troops quartered there seemed to be AT artillerymen, tank troopers, rocket launcher troops,, si, al troo;:5s and motorized infant troops,in that sequence. A general was soon 25X1 C riding in sedan and a colonel in sedan the latter car driven by a soldier with reds bordered red on-au . e s Mot-trier motor vehicles seen in the billeting area were 25X1 C 25X1 C An envelope found at the installation on 2 January re ? . * 25X1 C 25X1 C tor v: aicloa were seen, including trucks .Fragments of letters which were foe . ins 4 a -ion on anuary bore * 25X1 C Lo Eery H CLASSIFICATION Qoeument o P 1 . . to Clas3. 7-1 b ~ _ n aIfled r Class- Ganged To: Ty FtR 7G-2 Approved For Release 2001/04/13: CIA-RDP8 - 8 7 1 Q8-0 2. About 80 percent of the windows in two barracks buildings of the .krtillorio Kaserne on Freienwralderstrasse were lighted on the evening of 4 January, while windows in all other barracks buildings were fully lighted. The conclusion which might be drawn from this fact, that the installation was occupied to capacity with l=out 0,000 men, was doubted. by source because of other'contradictin observations. Source thought that half of the troops in the Artillorie Kaserrie were tan,, troops while the other half belonged to motorized infantry, mortars and AT artillery units. The singing of marching= units and the shouting of commands were heard frail the drill fields of both sections of the billeting area on 5 January? No troops were seen leaving the 3, Soviet military personnel were observed in the former administration buildings of the f rdelt ? lant, in six tenement houses on T3oldstrassci, in the buildings on the northeastern premises of the plant, and in the private houses of tho Ardolt family south of the plant, An officers' mess, two general's apartments and a newly constructed athletic field 25X1 C 25X1 C Approved For Release 2001/04/13, CIA-R B2 7=100180008-0 25X1 C 25X1A wore ai le redly loc,-itod. on the, f orr er property of Vac Ardelt: ~a r,.~ilys Judrring #ro t the trai1'ic of ?)ersoanel end vohiclcs, source thou!-lit the ad iin stra Vion that e hi;.; l7-echelon Iiead aartY:r s was located in buildings of the sl:.nta Five different L,enerals ~:aore Soon, "ho roof of one of the C..al! nist cation buildings carried a.i antenna s rsto to The tener:tents on oldtstra; se r:er` used as ofi:i.caret billet:-. Thoir ease=itonts Z: u work. lions a.ad a motion .-)icturo w;.chnai *on f."'ource believed t tat the r:1ar--echelon sections an('. t'te ; iotnr ..)ool of the hi; a echelon headquarters were, 1oc=rted in the nor t.he,aathrn ?aortion of the plant aroao Four bases, 114 trucks and 3r o iu.so-i`?^,I? cars :'13th] - 25X1 C did not include :rotor v.,hiclos of other unit: f;'.? ch Tore' '): r'.red te.loo- ra.ri ly al, the c C~. 13 r'tistiretion u7 ri7 n o or on t e o ! r :1 P1'', lot c , I "O tor vehicles coon in traffic at the >rdelt 'Plant on _3 Jar ra r .~ were 25X1 C were counted there on one da.,'. Those figures 25X1 C 25X1A r; uozttrtent?I.y -belongs to the 17th :leas Locz La,-,t of the 6th ;ds .iecz ] V Y Y AI '.~Ta 3 previously confirmed in T bers-.ialde until 2L December 25X1 C 1953. was previously re )orted from 'b..)r; w alde, 25X1 A yak Co riont, The infor? a tion gathered source .wring tprolon ;;cd periods of 01)s -rv i5 L. neral,ly cred.i1'lea According to all documents which have been obtained fron the thr;ro i as ila.t1 ations in ul~.:rYs la.l de, it is l':.sl.ieved that two ro.r;i17onts of the unid'entif'ied. ,,iU division of the Fourth Ids -ccz a bo:~.dquartjrs AT artillery unit, po sib>l } are a. ant, oi' the Fourth 25X1 C r Ys L ecs Army with the 82nd "IS liv Tank P Baru of the 6th 'mss T.iecz Div, elements of wO.'I' ma also be located in the A' a?tillerie Kaserne, the 312th Id, T, TYar,t a;id the 1l2th bi- 'to;,;t bath of the fourth ids :;ecz Artgr are quartered in the -clhuc tze:a ,aserno; the 17th ads !i cz leg and other elements o3' the 6th -d.3 4? cz Div in the ,r ui1_1erie I,*a,orne; and the A1q I aurth Ode l,lecz :rmy :ri tl't it administrative section and :actor pool in the Ard alt 2laaL, Approved For Release 2001/04/13 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007100180008-0