SOVIET TROOPS IN AND LEAVING FRANKFURT/ODER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 17, 1951
• Content Type: MISC

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1. TrOODS with tho following materiel were loaded at the Frankfurt/Oder
railroad station and left toward Iluellrose between 17 and 22 April 1951:
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17 April
18 April
Shipment
20 T-34 tanks
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The loading was super-
vised by a colonel who was seen shuttling between the 50X1-HUM
Infarterie Kaserne and the loading ramp in sedan
18 T-34 tanks including
21 April About 20 tanks
22 April
JS tanks
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kitchen trucks
and 4 boxcarloads of billeting equipmen-0?X1 -HUM
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armored personnel carriers marked with an upright rhombus,
and 12 truckn,
2. A convoy of trucks loaded with
billeting equipment; and trucks towing
artillery pieces, assembled in front of the Ziethen Kaserne on 18 April, with
tho trucks facing toward the Autobahn. Four officers and 12 soldiers wearing
red-bordered black epaulets were observed with the convoy. Another convoy
of trucks with billeting equipment was assembled on 21 April. Trucks
and two officers and 15 Ell with
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3, On 20 Apri1cthe Artillerie Kaserne on Au2ust-3ebel-5trasse quartered only
150 to 200 soldiers who wore red-bordered black epaulets with artillery
insignia? Trucks were identified. 50X1-HUM
red-bordered black epaulets were observed.
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4. On 16 April, only 100 to 150 soldiers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets, some with tank insignia, were observed in the Buelow
Kaserne at the intersection of Fuerstenwelder Strasse and Post-
stress?. One Captain Stulov (fnu) picked up material for the
Buelow Kaserne at the All emeine Trans ort e (shipping
company) on 13 April.
5. Only a few soldiers with black-bordered crimson epaulets were
seen in the northeastern section of the Eichhorn Kaserne on
20 April. Twenty-fivertnasianwomen had arrived from the direction
otthe railroad station aboard a truck
on 15 April. The southwestern section of the
barracks installation still quartered about 1,000 troceas who were
blacks-bordered crimson enaUlets? Trucks
liwere seen in the billeting area.
6. The main ming of the Hindenburg Kaserne on August-Bebel-Strasse was
being reconditioned on 20 April. A new board fence bisecting the
entire billetine area was erected nhemt Po meters behind the main
building. the Soviet steamship
company would mcve into the main building from its present location
in the teachers ? training college. The Hindenburg Kaserne quartered
about 400troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets with tank
insignia,
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7Q On 19 April, the Hofbauer Kaserne at the intersection of Birnbaum-
muehlsstrasse and Schubertstrasse still quartered about 100 soldiers
who wore rod-bordered black epaulets. The installation still served
as a transient billet for officers of various branches of service?
Howevere the turnover of officer personnel NAB less than previously
observed . The troops in the installation furnished a detail to uard
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seen entering the installation.
the ammunition depot on Schubertstrasse. Passenger car
8. On 20 Aprilothe Horn Kaserne an Nuhnenstrasse still quartered about
600 troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets, including a few with
tank insignia. Drill at squad level and firing practice were observed
between 11 and 20 April. Trucks were seen in the garages and tanks
leaving the billetin ar a E*
left the installations
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On 19 April. the Ziethen Kaserne on Kopernikusstratse quartered about 50X1-HUM
700 troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets, including some with
tank and artillery insi nia. A lar '.e
6ne anseallation on 16 April. Tank
moved out of the billeting
area on 19 April, while ahut20 trucks were loaded in front of the
mess building. Truck towing an artillery piece of about
120 mm, entered the installation.
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10. The personnel strength of the Soviet komendatura in the Yellow Press
building on Puschkinstrasse had not changed up to 20 April. The former
labor office building quartered about 100 soldiers who were red-bordered
black epaulets and black-bordered crimson epaulets. **
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Comment? the troops and materiel
belonged to the ecz eve e ements of which started leaving Frank-
furt/Oder for the Lieberose troop training grounds on 12 A ril 195
loading of a total of about 84 tanks and 6 SP guns
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that elements of the 57th Gds Tank Regt, the 84th Gds Hv Tank SP
Regt, and the 25th Gds Meer. Rell of the 7th Gds Mecs Div left
Frankfurt/Oder.
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Comment The Artillerie Kaserne on August-Bebel-Strasse quarters
components of the unidentified AAA division, possibly the 32d. The 50X1-HUM
small -number of troops in the installation is due to the fact that
elemerits of the division have been engaged in fil.ing practice at Jueter-
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