MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE SCHWEINRICH TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300090010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATi
^cx"r aa:i (Sovi.Ot Zone) REPORTI
Schweinrich Tronn Tr7i ni nr flrnsnnrds
OBTAINED
PLACE
DATE PREPARED___ 21 Octnbsr 1 qr:j
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
l On 13 and 15 5e :-tember 1951$ six artillery pieces northwest of :ea-Lutterow
in the Schwei_nrich (II 514/U 22) training area fired in a southerly direction.
The ir.pacts wore south of the Schweinrich--Zechlin roach Twelve artillery 50X1-HUM
pieces, apparently rocket launchers, fired from the area northeast of
Zootze.n toward the northeast on 15 September. SLcteen T-3I tanks icre seen
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mowing along the road fro-in Zechli toward Neuru in on 20 September. A
convoy of about 60 motor vehicles
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as later. fri vi nsg-sc_b nol tracks seen in the Schweirrich area
A combat group of tw9*o SIT--2t 9 SP guns 1. T--III/C5 tank carry-
ing infantry troops, 1 ,jeep, 3 trucks and a rat. io car was seen ncrth of
Roseneek estate at about 2 psra. on 20 September. Falling back in leap-frog
mariner from hill to hill they withdrew to the southern perimeter of Schwein
rich under mutual protective fire of blank cartridges., The two SI guns
toward Hill 90 from A,uf dem 1ootven where
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. they sire in reverse-slope position. The two hills were between COO eE 1,000
meters apart,, Is. nixed combat team of 100 to 120 vehicles of all types -with-
out camouflage or protection against air observation was scattorewd throughout
the area viong dither side of the road to Dossow about 1.5 km,nort,hviest of
Zoot.fen at about 3:30 p.m. An armored point, clear for action anc= with the
turret hatches closed, advanced on either side of the Dos sow-Sch?vo i.nrich
road at about 3:45 p.m. next came 20 T--34/8S tanks and several AT Guns ti.'hich.
in a width and depth of about 1,000 meters, crossee: the -.:ittstock-7.oot50X1-HUM
road . 1A--_- a northeasterly direction. The advance party vthich moved along
the Dos ' ~weinrich road about 2,000 raters later was deployed as follows:
Joe, occu i.ed b a hig--rankcing officer with tank insi.g;nia; C T-34/
65 task _ 2 light SP guns; 1, radio car;
10 to 15 `3U-249 SP guns; 26 trucks., each occupied by about 35 soldiers wearing
red-border,-4 black epaulets; and 6 field kitchens. Most of the ctmbat unit
which followed 20 to 25 ninutos later had this formation: 1 81-61. armored
scout ear; 1 jeep; I. six whorl arm rxd personnel carriers mounting troops;
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i :.ti(r Ii7.tf k?ens j 6 to 10 :;an:: trucks; and 1~0 to .0 tr'uch:r- ,:r..
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and arnunition, ;. biplane circled above the area :.icer , the unit as.ie:: wiled
and suh;seque.itly launched the a:.'.vance, The first reports D." tan'.
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k':.ot rd iron northeast about 20 minutes after the arr..orod point started r cn
inr'. '11"here as also suhr.;nchine '' un '`irlnr aty! the snnnr' nr ?7iri
ly faded in she d" stance
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1'.n3 'S Z:;r?(?rrt'>Letl he tele h )ne line was laid toward the S iobz.,anIshcTst 50X1-HUM
Set's G ement V troo', who 1-.,ore rod-bordered h1: ck QF.aulets 1;ith artil
i11si;_ nia , there was a f; 11n position there
t. e exercise be,-,an on 19 SeTPtc: nber, 1: ith the sin as ;ed ener :y 50X1-HUM
, ro2 dcfending Zcotzen and that the tank an.t involved -,:i thdrelr from 50X1-HUM
Zoot,en toward north duri: the nifht after intensive firin,-:. ne exercise
tins ~itill r;oin,I- on south of h .,+ o
:'0 I ove;:tints were noticed in the ittstclc c-~~:c? ;Yc it is}, ootzen area on 2
Cutok. r r~ i::1r1 ro#1^ machine run positions and fax} Dues yrerc seen :sof
ci..luc i.nric}1 and on pus tier; z~ootzen, and nur.;crous imprints of taiih tracks
i.nc _crltec the eak,lovment of tanks. The r~arki lot for tanks on he not
tio Dransor Lake ra , vacanto "owevr,r, rai,;. t, r cue, :e1 "s? c a.
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erau ~ rotor stood;; oast of the parking lot, ~rtlllery pieces, a;;out 1.5 i'on
not}-east of the larking lot, fired individual shots toward south. JS tanlr
was en, a: ed in drivinf' oractice in ti o tra i ni nr arc-.n1 50X1-HUM
i.'r e o^ to 30 air 4'r;rce soldiers 1^nrn
quartered at hosonec': -,state? Truc} stoc in a s},ccL 50X1-HUM
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Coat;:ent? "'w-AU of the ciriv? n?;-vsc?_orl trucks and other motor vehicles
~c_c~er1 .I 1ec, till -the ^chweinrich traini:,}, area :;.,lard to the lath -ecz iv,
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,sx:~?.~ to t.re 94th tics .tz c: _ a J:.v and 'to tiioauquartcrs units of the IC ??t.7
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orps 1ou. f.s to the air j. rarseo The pur^:rc,., e of t}1F50X1-HUM
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exercise observed on and Fept'onber 1951 probably 1'tas to train troops
in delaying action against superior forces with emphasis apparently laic;
on c.?eploy'ment for action fro,'. r;arci~-u formation under protective cover of
artillery lire. A ("Ivisi
on in nn advance ; arty and a main 1''ody is clearly
indicated the advance tarty was orIaniLed only into 50X1-HUM
an advance point a) ta into an clement vJh ich probably was the advance Marty.
11e et:i,~loyr,ent of a strong arr..o1'::ci point protected by act itional
AT guns x ese ,' :les a practice previously obsex ved in Ter:iplin.~ 50X1-HUM
ed in the-)resent report, tends to indicate that, x1 t" l,- Soviet hrrly,v, 50X1-HUM
advance units are ort;anizod into only one advance elem.;ant v la ' c}1, however,
is extrer ely powerfral, and is follar;ed e. about l,500 to 2,000 r:c:ter; b:
the advance :-'card ?suno in body. The tactical
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:probably belongs to the lth ?`ecz Div
rara~;raph 3 confirms Vk e exercises held in the are~50X1-HUM
o;. ,~c:1v~e:c.rn'ic t-ootzerl. ~`A~,
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