SOVIET AMMUNITION DEPOTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700400012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 Lterigrabotr (T.i 53/Z 00 . `he depot commandant was a ma jox? who
was assigned 12 officers and about a company of soldiers. (1)
:?. r-,'.,tthe beginning of rapril 1951 about 80
2Q O~`nly sr all amounts of ammunition wore stored at the depot
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50/1 'r51. s 110""VeVer ) four large trains
lth am unition arrived thero dur-'ng March, One of the trains
came from Brest 1. itovs?-. and carried 125.mr, 150r-rnr3, and 210-nun
shells on 63 boxcars. (2)
Arx-runj'i; on was GSA S.Led at 4I tenc'ti a j}o rather than manuf eture"
A certain percentage of shells stored at the d.erot nos always
ready for use,. with further amount , of shells made ready 50X1-HUM
L,s needed.
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4. 0-man In early' April, the for mor
Air
`orco ammun:lt_i In ;repot at B cl-ata- -ramsdorf (: 53/Z 11) was
)l e=? rod by soviet soldiers, Only a few German workmen were
rml oyod there and their t:iovement .~{~was soldiers, restricted, The
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date; - . . AUG 1978
On 9 May, I a Soviet amr.!amition depot was
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