OPEN-WIRE TELEPHONE LINES FROM BERLIN-KARLSHORST TO THE EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500520009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1? Cn 23 i`ebruary 1251 the route of a sixt?on.-v axe telephone line sus sanded
fron the cross ads was traced between '3er? in and Tasdorf 33/V 014) from
National iiiuhy ay ''o 1, * The line leaves the cit;,rr area about 100 maters
south of the hi 'hway, crosses the hirh wayy about 3 ii further on, and continues
north of the highway at distances raging from 30 to 300 meters, Just east of
Tasdorf the line again crosses .national =1i hway f.:lo 1. At this point a soviet
cnr_ nznication detail of sirs men equipped with climbers was werkin on the line.
Teppin,-s ,v(- ,,:.-e not observed. A beaten tradt was noticed under the line. 'ome
soldiers .yore quartered at a farm at Vogrlsdorf. (V 53/V o5)
e was traced b;,r second-
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G masts on Cher ,nitzer itrasse(con_nectirg line I,,-C to line C-D by underground cable)
wore fitted with cable heads for distribution poles. Two houses on the -aaat side
of Che nitzox Strasse quartered Soviet soldiers, ':o guards wore observed alone
the route.
From 4 t- 6 Lebrua ,r the route of an open :rh e telephone line was followed from
":3ar31r Karlsh?orst. to .erneuchon. The line originated in. ; Orlin-icarlshorst at
the terminal of an usider,:around cable in the ,ard.en pt area cast of Andernacher
3fraaso0 Observations shot-red several Soviet control points set up
close to Via 1 i.ghura ja - etv oen seefold and ..erneuehen the line, which had been
suspended from special supports and which at this point consisted of four wires
only, joined an open wine tol ophionno line running parallel to the railroad line.
Guar,.- .'s patrolled the line bo ;ween Berlin and .ierneuchen.
On 7 April the roue of an open wire _telephone line running from crlin to er--
neuchen was traced between '1