MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE ALTENGRABOW TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300140004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Ta i t rv Inforra,tt.nn frnm tfin a*l.tnnrrraho v Tr i.ninre Area
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DATE PREPARED 2i Octob
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1,., On 2 October 17>19 only a for, soldiers were soon at tache- former ari:nxnition loac.1nE
4tiata ort at ?ltengrabow U Z 00 ? tIo vehicles and artiller. v nieces Caere: observod.
About 20 to 25 trucks aorc a:..rkad atthle
r-matunition depot, An additional ;0 to 50 tricks and about 20 artilie:ryr pieces
Crete in the T;un park about 200 meters east of the tilten-:rabow railroad stati one
The unit quartered in the barracks installation 503 v..etors northeast o +11050X1-HUM
Alien abow railroad statioa was a.a:.'ent fro:.i the :.cost -;robahllr at the U_"00,
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t,raininFr
The gun park crud the sheds ooutrr;ost o. tiic-,
barracks iru t aloe tion ap,)eared vacant whon observod froI : the street" .;impended
ar munition casint,.s were 1or: ded on four railroad cars at the -it an, rrabou railroad
;tat,ion0 A unit entrained at the } obw.,, freight station includced: aliout -'-O` trmous
wearin- red bordered black -anaule~,z~ with artiller: a; 12 x 76,,2-rxu guns orb
Z,I`~-- trucks: and. 15trsictys
the unit came
from A ,ens a aotia an 4the en ?aan3r_~ of units had re;reatodlgr bean observed
hore during October. * A convoy of 12 trucks car r
x>I"oapc ;aii;n red-.
bordered bin ck epaulets a---id field e ui o: iz nt and x 10-m., ', ruts was seen moving
innt.h thrm h Lnhnr-r_
A unit with 12 STJ-100 SP guns and L. four-who, ].. ar- oreci scout cars roped th r Cl
h
sro.as Luebarc toward Alto t;;~?at:k~~n, corrin: free the direction of ilohJn:lobt:, 50X1-HUM
:match 8P gun Naas nan,i. d by 6 to 8 s3o1ldiera.a An artillertr ,snit et uin )e u with :12
od? 38 l152- tzars with full-track pri:a mwc;rs
was seen between Gross Luebars ma ~k1 ,eng a ;ota, coring,
:Cron the direction of Gross Luebars, Th3 prime movers fact e occupied cis h v
.,olc.iers each. No practice with live amaun ition was obs:orved on 2 Jctebore
CLASSIFICATI41+Y?'''~'T' 11.tt~ U8 OF='ICIALS J ILLY
Document Ho. ------------------
No Change In Class.
[:] Declassified
Class. Changed To: TS S
Auth,: HR 70-2
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Gom:nent0 Loburr is 1ocsated about 20 Ian- southw< st of" AItengrabow? It
is no,- ;i#71e that troops pras:ticint at +iltcn- rabow arc i)ein: detrained arid
ent rF3ined there No defiri.to conclusion can ho drawni rct',~r. c'tn ? the ui1its c
iclorit1.ty from the motor veh'Z.c1eL ohso. ved thor:;., ui 1Co t~.':e39 bo1')n'' t') t':i'oo
ddi:H.EcrQnt mits nam ly the ~'rt'.~ (?} Gun Arty Bri , ,.:"o 3c'. ', .s (?) Ai JLrt.r
`:t.i;., and to E] headquarters unit of V y-, ri ~11TY' Shock -Inxfr"
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