SOVIET TROOP IN HALLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900390005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION,
.COUNTRY Ger nv (Soviet Zone) _ w ~r s PORT
OPIt Soviet Troops in Halle
UgVALUATI ON
DATE OF CONTE'
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & T'PE)--.-
REMARKS.....
black-
'bordered reci epaulets.. No training activity was noticed.. Trucks seen in
by troops rrho wore red-bordered black epaulets, black bordered black epaulets and
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to On 24 November 19 ., the Luf'tnachriclite:ia Kaserne in Haile (M 52/J 92) was occupied
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trucks
without narkin-f? SP guns
On 19' N?verer
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tru ks pas 11aed through Halle
'coming from the direction of pitterfeld ",X S2/ 14). it included.,, T--34 tanks
i?lJh a white SolriQet stayvr ; t anki7
with a red Soviet star in a white 41
field; a ad tank,-
were seen driving from the Italic f oig h yard toward he city? (3)
On 10 Novembe , the leil Kaserne on Reilstrasc;eti Italic. m as acr.,;-r c~r3 by a
mroops wno wore black-bordered cririsan, epaulets,.
an 11GB unite (It)
Q On 20 Jo emi r, 10 T-.34 tanks
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On 11 5 Novor-1. r,, the Lui'tnacbri chtcn I'a erno on i eide A1lce, Italic, quartered troops
who wore red-bordered black epaulets ? ith artillery and tank insi.pia, Seven 1-34
tarfkmounting 85-m pins and 13 "IS tank; mere observed an t:Za J.n.; tallation? I:otor
Whxcles seen there
On 15 Novembers the Flak iKaserne in Halle- ,Voer?mlitz
troop Who orc3 red-bnrdrarrad hl m nk rannnl cat c E
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a coluzrn of T-34 tanks., SP guns and
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tnachrichto . t asorrzo
carries:: i ttla collective . b lletin ; area off
the I,ui
and F e ;ethos ct ,;:asor zt v tia11e, are believed to be t,'rie di vision heaciciuar t ere;
the 19th Ode Izv Tank w Re ;L or elenonts of it; the 54th Gds Now Arty xe;;t;
the 136,,h Ids ? ort Gt; the 2505th (?) Oct , MA the unidontified Gds
Sid and ur deritif od Gds ;nor Iti; Vie '114t1-, ( ) Gds L .rcl Bna the
unidentified for tr arto 3ort? battalion and dr3.,rNr school. 50X1-HUM
Sizable cortpont~nts of these units first partic:io?.ted In t?~c en i eer
exercise told in the .)es: au-Akers area in the first half of Lay 1;}514 The
bulk of the division subsequently nzve:i to t ho troop training rounda,
t? a jor elements of the 21v t Gds .,ocz Div from Hal-'-e were a~;ainn o'v er%vod
partic atiri in the fall mancavor', of t e i hth Gds Army in t e Des; u
O TJ/CO!1T'?OL~ OFT'ICI.A7.`.; Ci Lg
(1) the units of the 21st Gds ecz Div 50X1-HUM
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