MILITARY INFORMATION FROM JUETERBOG AND WERDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400550009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
PIL
COUNTRY Gcrman (3oyiet )
-__.REPORTI
Topic ~`ilitary Information from v'ueterbog and "'erde
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTEN
DATE OBTAINED-
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DATE PREPARED
behind the bar-
racks installations in ksueterbo T: 52/ 8J , observed
about 70 tanks eng.aaed' in driving. practice on 19 'ebr. u a.ry
1951. The tank areas -sere chan ed at 30-minute intervals.
The tanks had a round turret, located to the rear of the
center, *"hich mounted a lone gun barrel. '.'11 tanks -"ere of
the same type a the tanks had 50X1-HUM
arrived in Tueter o by road, con-in-.7-from Land ' Saxony find
from "arkendorf.
2. To troo?s mere seen in the training area surrounding, Sueterbog
on 2 ' aroh0 ate wards at tho Fleidorn_ 1.7ascrno *sore rod-
bordered black eraulots. Thera gins no training; activity in thc50X1-HUM
billotin., area. `otor vehicles
T"ase ^rac =vas ,warded by tank troopers. Ph G was no vehicular
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German i^'atchmen on 2 March. '-"-,o "o,%riet troops =rere there
The troop camp in the ?"erder-"arkendorf area Seas warded b
the camp had been occupied by utp to
40,000 men of units from Zerbst, `,osslau, '" ittenberg, Jueterbog
and Jueterbog-A1tes Lager. `".hen leaving, these units took all
billeting equipment +ith them. The doors and ?Mindo?~'s of the
camp buildings -ere subsequently boarded up.
Co e , The tanks observed nrobablr belonged to the 14th
is carried in the Hindersin Yaserne. is as-
s gne o an unidentified unit, possibly an AT artillery unit,
of the 'Fourth Gds ~:"eoz Army in Fbersrjaldeu belonrs50X1-HUM
to a component unit of the 14th Gds T"ecz Div -hich has been ob-
served in the 1?'chsber --aserne since the beginrinfj7 of 1950.
the loca
tion in the Fuchsberg Paserne of an engineer battalion probably
the 109th " n Bn of the 14th t'Rds 2".ecz vivo
~r ~s ~,;eez motor vehicle mentioned
in the report confirm units of the 14th Gds T"ecz Div in Tueterbog.
belongs to a tank component of the 14th Olds r'ecz Div
t~thich
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