MILITARY INFORMATION FROM FUERSTENWALDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100190014-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPICMilitary Information from 'Fue sbpr; a AL
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only one unit, engaged in the training of tank drivers,,
-'as observed in the F1'nier Kaserne on Carton Strasse, N uersterivalde
(fl 53/V 33). The majority of the troops from the installation were no longer
there,, Four T-34 tanks zie vc seen leaving the billeti area fox, driving
practice in the neighboring area ? Trucks 17ere 25X1 B
identified at the installation. *
2, about 80 soldiers wearing rod-bordered black epaulets ;:ith
ar ery insignia assemr,1ed in the yard of the Luftwaffen Kaserne, No
guns were observed with the troops o A four-story building at 3 Friedrich
Engels .`;trasse apparently housed a military headquarters,, Officers enter- 25X1
tag the building had to show passes to the sentries ** 25X1X
3.
25X1A # II Comment. The information checks with a report by another source
n ca_ ngti t the Pionier Kaserne still quartered a tare school, probably
the unidentified tank training battalion of the 7th Gds iecz Div, while
the other divisional units from the installation Moved to the Lioberose
trots ,raining Grounds 4 25X1 B
25X11 Comment It is 1:naeib .e t'.:-.at the Lui?ccraffen I aserne quartorod only
a rear unit, with mott of the ue.ts of the installation having probably,
gone, to 4ustrow0 Cc ponenta of the unidentified AA divisien of the Fourth
Gds Pieta Army are carried in the Luftwaffen Kaserne, and it is possible
that the trucks of this division i :ich were unloaded in olmiIr: ted F> on
18 Vay 1951, had core from the Luftwaffen Kasorno
The headquarters whi~h9 according to the present report., i-,.,as located In
the building on Friedrich 1 ngols Strasse is a military post hoadquartors,
25X1A Co nt0 II has been observed with shipments of military 25X1 B
go a, cons cad to a unit in Fuorsto lde and was there, ore believed to
belong to a component of the 7th. Ode Metz Div,, Since these shipments,
consisttig of AT and AA. uns and once of a tarp were indicative of a 11 unit with mixed weapons 25X1
it appears possible
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belongs to the hithorto un:i.denti.fied 24th Ods r1ecz F?egt of
the 7th Gds Mecz Div in Fuer stenwaids
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