"SOVIET TROOPS IN THE TRAINING AREA OF APETLON, KAISERSTEINBRUCH AND DOELLERSHEIM"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600330003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Fresh tradks made by c terpillar treads were seen in he area surrounding
tie camp. tw SP . guns with usually long barrels were axked in the
slop, n4,, terrain so.th of the Ka eerstoin'oruch v here n" road. Radio
vehicle with extended` antennae: were. parked in the woods near ormnor-
six tie crews wore real boxered black3pet except for one soldier
Doha wore black-horde ed Mack "epaulets.
march? true as seen heading toward the Doellersheim.
{p9/ 3) troop training ,grounds, coming from Vienna l viaorneu-
burg stockerau and Horn. (0 ) 99k~ 83). The truck
was occu ied by a senior li utenant a lieutenant ' and tw0`1 W who wore
red-bor erect b .c1c epaule s. It was to ded wit billeting equipment,
5.0, rcethougYit that the dot .l might have been an advance party.
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Comment. Apetl;on :is the firing range of the AAA. units s ib-
ordinate to the Central ,0p of Forces. The information indicates
that firing practice -here lad not started lay 10 March 1951,
whereas, in :thy, Saviet`'Zo .e pf Gern(Axty, the first AAA units. arrived
at theWustrow'AAA range'as` :eaxly. as late February 19a1. The soldiers
observed in CimpApetlo"n may have been--n,advance party preparing
billets for the a rival' oi" AAA un ts, F
Comment. Since the 13th GdsrMecz 1D v have
25X1 25X1A ali4ays been observed an enort~_.ern section of. the cantonment east
of Icaisersteinbruoh, itr is believed. that elements of the d vipion are
either:' st~itioned thorFe perm 1 nt?ly or are rotated there for field
25X1A training during the iinter months
The identity of the troops in the southern sect on of the can
And in the cantonment Mast of the toyer has riot f; determines ~; , It
is possible .that the install bons quarte troops who are rotated
there for training
25X1 A : 3 x-; omment. The truck b elonged to `a c6mponent. unit of the 13-th Gds
25X1X ' NIeez Div. that it carried an advance detail en route
to the Doellersheim troop training grounds is probably correct.
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