MILITARY INFORMATION FROM STENDAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400480001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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to On .27 September 191, source observed a convoy of 14 trucks carrying about 300
troops ?rJ.th field cquiprment and towing eight model 1938 122 mm artillery, pieces
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on In Amniraer Damn about 7 P.m,,. (1) eight 5U 100 SP guns left-'the Albrecht der
Baer Kaserno about the same time, driving toward the training area on. m Arniiaer
Damxi. (2) a briefing hold in the officers quarters on Liablmechtstraisso at 'IJ `p4m0
on 20 September was attended by about uO officers. Two generals arrived in sedan
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Soviet troops ;b re seen engaged in o::, ercisos in the area of Uonu1inCen, Schernikau
and Steinfeld on 2 Octobero Telephone sections strung lines from the IIindonburg
and six trunks carrying troops and town;
seen between Uenzlinnen and SchernUcau0
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The road to Stoinfeld was
cs. Local residents s , d that exercises were frequently held
south of Steinfeid?
In to evening of 30 September, a convoy of 20 trucks towing 6 x 76.2--z= artillery
pieces and another convoy of 10 trucks tcnring 4 x 76.2 -mm artiller;r pieces were
Sixt;eean groups of 40 to L5 soldiers each marched into the Tauentzie~n Kasibrne at
about 6 p.m. on 6 October, coning from Uen;l nger Strasse0 The unit was .headed
by five field-grade officers, a rii1i'-.ary band and a furled flag, The soldiers
of 15 groups Wore crimson epaulets., :%ncluding, sone with artillery and signal
ins *nia, and the soldiers of the la;7t group rod-bordered black epaulets with
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.he artillery pieces belong to the 207th
sA o -Uyt 693d How Arty Regt 'which is carried in
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Stendal.a Information obtained in the course of 1951 tends to indicate
that units of the regiment are stationed in the Albrecht der Baer lasorne
and at Borstel airfield.
The information confirms the quartering in the Albrecht der Baer Krserne
of elements of the 16th (?) T ztegt of the 207th Utz Rifle Div. See
The house referred to as officers' quarters was previously reported as an
officers' club. The general w .th two stars is a lieutenant i-eneral,
ong to headquarter:,, units of the Third Shock Army and the
MIX Utz Rifle Corps, and to ','.,he 207th Utz Rifle Div and the Uq GO .,
em,aictea y units quartered 7 7 ndal, The convoy observed on 30 Sep-
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According to several reports indicating that infantry troops are quartered
in the Tauentzien serne, it s believed that a motorized rifle s.:a imont
a." the 207th Utz Rifle Div is r_:uartered therero
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