SOVIET TROOPS IN BERNBURG.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008800130010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

A prpved_FSP1R lease 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R00
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1 On 16 : ?uga t 195., the b srracla; i.ya atalla ion on lbersteoter?-. t . ^,^ e Berriburc
(1,41 52/D 76) quartered. from. 1.,,200 to 1 44`% ttrroops who ware bla _ - 7 Dc~ ~?4 c'. a rse
epaulets without braach-of-s n -vice ir5 7 _: p ia,. The -troops seen in z-11.1
winclo of the irstallation were trained, soldiers most of Irheon ?s re war
decoration s0 All of the officers snd some of the Tian twoa'e the guards bad-o,,
No xocruits were seen in the billeting area. several units of about 100 soldiers
rare C ,eci in f"orna .ion er ,:7wl and ccaY_il at tralx3l iF. u 1;c7 rs
wore seen in the streets o w~crrbur ;,, An cquai.utance of source stated that
the troops r:,reviously quartered the barracks :;,nsta'fation Lad left, for
Altenar?abotr abo, ; the middle of Julys Ad i cy i nstasi1ati ods then to c?r e occupied
by the a ogre- ;gent i c?rteci, troops with black bordered black epaulets
2m The troops in the irt;a ., w+l3 a.t:ion were enl a ,ed primarily in a a. Cht encerc .se3
in the so-called Bornasche hue on a i ed-txp branch of the Saale River 1 One
rarat,e of the installation sheltered two a-mhibious armored
E cor:x r ic; > ace
cars tt3:ich courted t.un: of to 30-;;mu Gzite cuarc s and r?