MILITARY INFORMATION FROM KUESTRIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600530008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTENT 2 ; are.b 1951-
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A German laborer watched the troops in the barracks installation in
Kuestrin (0 53/V 66) while they received their rations on 20 L;.crch 195l,
and estimated a total of 1,200 to 1000 troops, indadin officers.
Informant believed that an A."a re,-I,:iont yeas located there. Conferences,
lasting, 3 to 4-hours,, were held daily at the re-iiheadquarters, at which
times.the entrances to the headquarters building were guarded by sentries.
cormnuted daily between the barracks installation and Frankfurt/
0der, where the suporiox headquarters was believed to be stationed. Another
truck occupied by two officers and 2 or 3 1 U went to I+;berswalde weekly.
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C m nt. The information, a,,rees with a previous report by the same
source a confirms the belief that the barracks installation in Kuestrin
uarters elements of the unidentified AAA Div, possibly the 32nd. See
Source's opinion that the division headquarters is
located. in Frankfurt/Oder is probably correct.
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