MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EBERSWALDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007700730011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
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TOPIC i. taxesr Inf'on,.-p ,ion from -,bors-?raldo _
EVALUATION.,.I
DATE OF CONTENT..
DATE OBTAIN ED -_
REPORT
DATE PREPARED 27 4E11 1951
DO NO ! UIN
1. Between 9 and 29 Liarch 1951, the achuotzen Kaserne on Bernauerheer-
strasse, :& ers aalde (N 53/V 03), eras still occupied by 4g500 to
5,000 troops. About 13 percent of the windows of these barracks
buildings which could be seen iron the street were lighted at night-
fall. A convoy leaving the installation on 12 arch heading west-s
~.ncluded rocket launchers
and four trucks
trucks
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There were about 250 troo;as with rod-bordered
black epaulets on the vehicles of the convoy. Two of the rocket
launchers carried crews numbering 7 and 8 soldiers respectively.
There was little training activity in the 5chuetzen Kaserne on 28 Tarr h
2., No changes in the occupation of the Artilleries Kas,:~rne on Freionwalde'r--
strasse were observed. About 83 percent of tho windows of all buildings
were lichted in the evening of 29 Larch. Five groups of soldiers, totaling
about 180, marched to the drill fiold on 27 Iiarch0 Sone of the soldiers
wore artillery insigrd.a. About 15 so]c.iors,with rod-bordered black
e,oaulets,y practiced at the obstacle course about 130 motors east of the
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;:_a 1 Zorchi a convoy, of trucks
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Icordrv fro:?:: tine c`irocta.on
of t.ze .'.rt,a ! le.raea x ase:rne lav a? thr?ou~h ;~be;rSrraide '.o iat: :,!crt?
the trucks to ^a d mortars of n ;o xt [13-nn
caliber, while another truck
toy:od
a field kitchen T trucks were occu?aied. 1.v 115 troo',)s who :?;ore rod-borriorod
black e oa uir , t:, ,
Vie encampwn. t on Ereitsche?dstrasse was still vacant, ;.ally trio soldiers
with black borelered black o .xaulz~ts were seen near the ;rcahotist:.,
No changes fivera observed at the Soviet qua--tors on r~u?xf:r r erzver~, iwotor
vehicles orlcedt in the rd
m The two Isaiccax'i ;~, at the intersection of :Lisenbahnstra sse and Grabowstranso
and at 35 Jchicklerstra jso, discontinued baking for Soviet troops,
6. No changes were observed at the former Ardelt 7lant, IJurierous field-grade
officers were observed, About 9) percent of the of'f'icers .'more red-bordored
rod epaulets and 10 orcent black-bordered black epaulets, All nilitar-
persorinel hod to show their _?asses when entering or leaving the Ardelt 22lant,
.iix small. rod atatennee and one lard;: r d ~mtertna ware Mill on to'' of the
roof: of :;euoral -alarm; '.:-uf..)_diz;~;:~,
7., On 12 (,`.arch, six IiA -;ms of about 5,0-.,-n caliber ;sore set.-uo in rt~-~laconont
on "'estC3'.1C3 s trasso in :ab:rswaldo and 'thra ^11 - nns os the 4 r7L caliber wore
set-w) sonVa of the N'berz Ide-F:biow railroad line D
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am tuo, +s3 me i3 be -tioved to 1-0, 1 1.:"11 V .)ccu- ied by e tc^?ents of the
Fourth :, Inc ? c p-rr y, These presb,at.ly i el'id.e arty hea6) elIL-:rt?r 11ni;;s, the
118th Sig : nirt, the 312th ?J, ; ogtj, :'.`i1 artillery units and coq onerit units
of the ar.:71s unic33ntified A.' (livision,
. rr in ; I rswais acsi~;ned to the 2th ,Ziflo :tcg;t of the '7th
di..flo Div. I%ia division ra? loca-tod in the Leningrad LM before t be war,
It was identified on the 5urooe n front in October 191.1, on the Finnish front
in Jenuan l7) 29 aid nowt recently in uaalo, -White; Sea I. J., in Jctober 1,)44,
of baifly belongs to an AT arti.l-lory unit of the Fourth 1113 I,ecz
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lieved that 1.11- division is now btatiened in the ',aurr ansk :area,"~litc )eaVv
the :ar'til.lerie ,.astir:fie is believed to quarter ole~aerit:, of the 6th
xC7:: ..iecz iiiv, naiacl~v the 17th ',k~.' :,'eels' tte'~t the 32d, ldr, a+v Tank -P :1egt
and.' rather units of e divici C1,-.an 'alt' co:lvoy ia.ein -io-iod
in the orsaont rer)ort probably 17th to the .:
Ods ;eCZ ; ~
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(4) J' 36li"t2 cenfira the iit, 6th 'Ws L.'eca "")iv in ?ernau until 2!1 Fa_I)r-iery 12"1.
(5 '-he information a rr-roes :.`i h ar.'viouw clla rF3' aCCOrciiri trJ :'~;"t ail tilt] '11q, Fourth
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() Co q) re ,Yy,itha -. reoort of 11 d ~T(yr 7r El' i'
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