MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EBERSWALDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100180008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 7, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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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
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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
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found at the installation on 2 January re ? . * 25X1 C
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tor v: aicloa were seen, including trucks
.Fragments of letters which were foe
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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
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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
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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,
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