SOVIET TROOPS IN GARDELEGEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009800040008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

COaUNNTRY Germany Soviet Zone)
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TOPIC ... Soviet oon s in GardoleR n
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E.VALUATION~
DATE OF CON"?.E c. 7 November 1951
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1. On 7 November 1951 the barracks installation at Gardele?en
(II 53/Y 44) airfie'd was occupied to capacity by 300 to 1,000
troops. There was a disproportionately large number of lieutenants
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and senior lieutenants, most. of whom werean
few were artillerymen. Five groups of 15 to 20 nen each were seen
receiving basic infantry training with rifles and light machine guns G
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Enlisted men, which source observed, wore black-bordere(
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radar set was oca ec at e Name place as
. previously but was not revolving. A truck, with boards on the outsidt
similar to trucks previously cabs-)rved, was ne.?.r the radar set. *
2. On 7 1tove:1ber, the large barracks building of the lesnonte Kaverne
Was occupied to capacity by tr oons who v':oro black, o aulets. Lo
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no or zcc p rte!'trn nt. Probably the 593th of the 207th :'tz
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ters east of the j,.erionteschule.
tThe :inforr. nation confl us a previous assumf? on a
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uarters the 390th Indep I ngr Pn of the I XIX
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.fltz Pifle Co:'r)s, whose coriponents were seen by ar, when
they entered the installation
The three trucks nentic ?necl in the present repa ^t a0~ org25X1
to iea Uquartors units of the Third Shock gray 5.nd the LXXIX tz
Rifle Corps.
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