MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DRESDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500280002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOR Yilltarv Informaten from Dresden
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c-3 10 Source learned fr.= a railroadmon 01, fotirc a block stnticn in Dresden
Elotzschn (N 524P 29) that Sovi -L troops ostabli,lhed i Geoll% in Jacen (:oreet
division) No 72 in the woods north pf Llotzsche and seith of 77eixdorf 52/
F 29) botwo-n 23 and 30 June 1951 Cther railroadrn 7triVd that the camp
quartered about J000 trouls whr ha:'- arrived nt rlotzhe on nine trains
between PC and 30 Jane, coninc from the direction of 7 autzena The a)1diers
wore black-bordered red e:ulets an:! c,2id Lc ba,/ no-o from the
The camp was cuarded by sentries tIvi wore "clack ,Iordered rel epaulets and vere
accompanied by watch does,
C-3 2a Cn 5 Julyi, it was observed that a oJ'n: of C circular tont and as many hats
had been established i weds est 0! toeniglbrueckor ?Itrasso, oppte
the former Luftkriec6 F.:01hule in 'Iretden-Tletzsch.i, T:IP troops there wore
black-bordered crimson epa4letc nnd their equiprent 1,.eluod six mortars
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The: 3r, nasorne in Dresden,? !?t1J:14, .sfed by about I200
troops since itandollr mrs 70 r.(nt lichted. l the, e,reninCt at the end
Of .JurxcL Units 4uartered there if:led cro unit rOZQ ,e.dler 172are rod-.
bordered black ePaulettY without ':.T1nnh-of-rorvi 'and another unit
of soldiers Ale wcio reclorderc cTriuqlto tly) insicniaa Troops
tith motor transport incicnia wc.re lencor sesn, !7.tf:ternonts by local. '
residamts that tan!,7e would letmo the barrnchl instnllaten every nicht mna
substantiated ...by. score? ,l'es6rvetf three tan! :s caraces and driv
ing? into the harraokr yard durinc t nIT:ht- of 27 Jun,r_ The -follortinc
only the noise or tan as hea r n.r7.tn11,.1tiOn ,i1r1 the freah imprints
ack.s vpsre seen in the Merminc,, A trtick
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wearinc iack-berdered black eraul.)1s, nnk7 15 .sc-adiors .wnarint 1.161c-bordored
black epaulet's to the barracc installation, Cn two dnys during the time
of observation., soldiers leifor,41 r,-.torOycle:7; in the ?
barracks yard.**
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crt? trairr? eleh in7.7,s-t3i.liv1H70-1- and an express-
train locomotive, have 1.-ion stni the becinnig
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- of .June,, The trains were cuarded by sentries vtho wore black-borde re ,f. . violet
(sic) epGiflAsQ Officers men thero wore the sane colors and Caps 7ottl.i. vizors,
the britts of ?biota were embroideaf-cdd with oak. leaves. Source further learned
that a comrland train . of blue expreso-train c cache .. -
etadt ra'Ilroad? station at the beoinnir - of June
Comment. The information in pal:-azraphe Iand 2 possibly refers to
?the same camp?- Itowever the numbor of %COO troops seemed to have been over-
estimated._ There have been no reports oonfinsin3 a lorge-scole movercnt of
troops from the direction of Bautzen and it vas not before 3 July that other
2 io.s ?yin from Goerlitz westward and northwestward. See
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ca zve o the a r an ing exercises observe A oy Arc o Cr. 5ource3 in
Altenburas Thuringia. It is therefore possible that the unit vhick4 according
to the present reports was quartered in the camp in the -woods and with which
only Six nortars were seensi was involved in these air-landiroz, exercises
with the troms takirr off In Dresden and "..!rondi.o at Alt3ntorg. See
C zoo. ortration . the S3 Teseno, Yann
no c a_-es over a revious renort- See
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