SOVIET TROOPS IN BAUTZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010100230001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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he trooper j"rom t e nn wren ase -ne on Naethe- .cl 1. i?? d.
their quarters from a summer camp. Tan officers and 150 unarmed soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets and carrying entrenching tools entered
the saren Kaaerne from the direction of the Binnewitz drill ground on 12 No-
ve r. The unit was later folly weri by 2 officers and lb0 EM who wore red-
bordered black epaulets and carried field equipment with carbines.
Troops observed at the nnewitz drill ;round on 17 November included officers
and $O men engaged in entrenching practice, and L officers and 30 NCOs prat-
-titng map reading.
tt t~, According to t:lis reports the 44th Gds Tank Ike at of the 11th Gds
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'9v, Which is carried in the jsarAen KCaserne,.Rresumably returned from. the
ei;abee.k troop training grmncis. The report in vaguely confirmed
a trop train leaving Schwepnitz for Eautzen.on. 30
t %tober 1951 1 . The Binnewitz military post drill field is
located about ltm southeast of l3autzen.
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