MILITARY INFORMATION FROM FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500250006-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVAWATION _PLACE CGTAINEr
DATE OF CONTENT 20 Juno to 19 July 1951
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ln From 1 to 10 July. 1951, the frtillerie Kaserne in Frankfurt/Uder (0 53/V 63)
vms again occupied by 1,000 troops who wore red .bordered black epaulets. About
200 troops .ere drilling at squad level and practiced aiminc with four 76
guns on 3 and 5 Julyr, Sixteen canvas-covered 76,2-4mm AA guns were still parked
alonr the north side of the billetinr. area durinn the period of observation
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0 The Buelom Kaserne still quartered not more than 50 soldiers who more tank and.
artillery insignia. (2)
3. The northeastern section of the Eichhorn Kaserne seemed to have been completely
vacated. (3) Only sonotimes were 2 or 3 soldiers with black-bordered crimson
epaulets observed there, who seemed to belong to the unit in the southwestern
ection of the Lichhorn Kaserne, where about 900 troops with black-bordered
crimson epaulets were quartered. About half of the troops were recruits. From
250 to 300 soldiers were engaged in recruit drill and other training activity
in the Kiesberge (hills) on 7 July while about 200 troops stayed in the billeting
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The Hindenburg Kaserne was occupied by only a rear unit of 50 men who wore red
bordered black epaulets, including some with tahk insignia io movements or
vehicular traffic were observed on three days between 1 and 10 July, (2)
5, The Hofbauer Kaserne was occupied by a unit of about 140 men with red-bordered
black epaulets at and after the end of oune 1951, (4)
6,, The Horn Kaserne, too, seemed to quarter only a r
bordered black epaulets with tank insignia, Truck
billeting area, (2)
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The Ziethen Kaserne was also occupied by only a rear unit of 50
mon who wore red-bordered black epaelets? including some with -
tank insignia0 forty-two soldiers assembled in the barrack:; yard
on 9 july9 (2)
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8. There were 60 to 80 soldiers with red-bordered black and black-
bordered crimson epaulets in the Soviet komendantura on Puechkin
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Although four units of about 150 men each had left the installation
toward Rosengarten, training activity was still very intensive in
the Artillerie Kaserne on 30 July. he installation seemed to quarter
about 1,200 troops. Thirty trucks were being serviced in the barracks
yard. (1)
10. Only rear units of 80 to 100 soldiers each were located in the Buelow
,Kaserne? the Horn Kaserne and the Ziethen Kaeerne, Ihe forrer PW
processine camp adjoining the Horn Kaserne was vacant. The troops
previously quartered there had apparently left for Lieberose. (2)
IIQ Between 13 and 18 July, troops were seen leaving for Lieberose aboard
regular passenger trains at a rate of about 100 per day,, and about
the same number of troops returned from Lieberose by passenger trains
during the afternoon hours. The incoming and outgoing troops used to
march to and from the railroad station in small units of up to 30
soldiers, carrying hand baggage and small arms. Source could determine
only that some of the troops involved in this exchange program had coma
from the former PW processing camp adjoining the Horn Kaserne, (5)
A train which was loaded in Lieberose for shipment toward FrankfertiOdEr
on 19 July carried 10 truckloads of soldiers, 5 rail-tvoe rocket launders
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On 28 June, 12 groups? averaging 15 soldiers were seen receiving infante25X1.?
training in the hichhorn Kaserne. A roll call held there on 13 July
involved 15 officers and lcO EI -
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Eighteen groups, of 10 to 12 soldiers each, were drilling and eneaged in -
firing and signal practice at the Artillerie Kaserne on 28 June. Two unitss,
each of 5 or 6 officereeand 130 EM, assembled in the barracks yard and lere
reported to a colonel on 4 JuTY 0 Fifteen artillery pieces of an undetee-
mined -type were parked in the northern section ofihn hillnfincemi
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(1) Ine iniSiSaron on the Artillerie Kaserne agrees weth
ereviousI7 reported eheeeeeae lea from 5 to 8 July 1951
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According to coinciding information by the various sourcesi, the
situation in the barracks installat?ons specified has rettaix'led
11r-changed since the previous report.'
Same source reported the northern seftion or the Liohhorn Kits
to have been occupied to capacity until 20 dune 1951.
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til the end of Juno 1951.1
The present report indicates tnat Leave traffic there
Same source made similar observations in July 1950.1
Reports by three other sources'
support the impression that the replacement. Of troops
continued urinr: the first half of July 195l.
lit is doubted that the troops observed should have
been exchanged only between Lieberose and Frankfurt/Oder, as is stated
in the present report. It is possible that the incomin;: shipments had
come from the direction of Cottbus via Lieberose, because no movements
of this kind have been reported from Lieberose until 14 July 1951.
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(6)
the train carried a component of the
.11.etn Ude RL Regt of the Fourth Ods Mecz Army P report by another
source stated. that elements of the regiment were loaded in Eberswalde
on 6 and 16 Jul:, 1951 with the-first shipment going to Jueterbog,
however.
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