MILITARY INFORMATION FROM LUDWIGSLUST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400560005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION PLACE OBTAINED,
DATE OF CONTENT and 17 February,, l.9' :L
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(1i 51/T 53) quartered 300 to 1,000 troops who wore red-bordered black
epaulets. About 100 soldiers received training in firin- on 12 February,
black epaulets.
officers seen there wore artillery insignia.
installation were numbered:
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3, On 17 February the Kavallerie Kaserne in the southeastern sector of Ludwi s-
lust still quartered troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets. .,one of the
The Techentin airfield installation on the northern edge of the field was
occupied by tank troops. T-113 tanks T?ere in the rgarages. Other tanks which
were covered with tarpaulins seemed to be of JS type. One of the T-143 tmks
bore the number 236, followed by a small 5. The hangars on the southern
edge of the Techentin airfield were occupied by tanks and guarded by sentries
CLASSIFICATION
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with about 50 soldiers wearing red-
bordered black epaulets ,vit-;h tank insignia were observed in the tank training
area soath of the Techentin airfield on 3 February. Twenty officers wearing
red-bordered black epaulets, some with artillery insignia, were seen in th
tank training area on 13 February. Groups of two officers alternately Mounted
a JS tank to practice aiming. The officers were subsequantly joined by 10
other officers iho wore red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia.
Three trucks, irtcling rere used Chu driving practice at the
airfield area, each truck carrying five student drivers rearing red-bordered
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who wore red-bordered Black epaulets, The entire airfield area
was 1 t ' .sz,croased b?' tank tracks which led to the wooded area east
of S3erliner Chaussee. .
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All motor ve'x ele nur b s zne ti on ed in the present r cpoi t : belonged to
series of the 18th .' ecz Div.
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e are carried as at the Techentin airfield. The information 'bA- the
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anuary 313.e
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