MILITARY INFORMATION FROM STAATS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400290007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military 1"rforr ation from. Gtaats
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1. The construction of two nou bar. ra c;kcs bui ldin ;s in the billeting area at ,:,taats
(M 53/Y 64) was completed in early? December 1 510 Some houses of the set tler:aent
ad- oining to the west were included in the railitar. b:illetin atom. On 10 ':December
the barracks installation at :itaat r quartered 400 to 50J troops? rate guards wore
term.-bordered black epaulets. about 140 tanks and. nuraorous
tr,.zcks were stationed in the instErl1.ation, Twelve T-314 / 5 tanks were se :n (driving
in the training area Houtz of the barracks installation while a' out 60 soldiers
we ?p eril-a ed in entrenching pract:i_ce there,
2, On 4 December9 several tanks were seen through open doors of garages at the 50X1-HUM
barracks at Staats. There are about 15 garages, and each garage has 20-25
bays. N merous young soldiers with closely-cropped hair were noticed in the 50X1 -HU M
billeting areas, o?
]about 80 acres of forest were cut
near the Zienau road barrier soutTwcst of the tardele ;en.IJolle road.
a u Aunt tivoul be built`, on the c?caring by Jan:zary 1952e
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1.~Q Trtiacks .lt.:tided tiiicla billeting-; equipment, tier-..; oo drivin-
anto the barracks installation at itaatc 50X1-HUM
Co : ont the barracks instal l.~a tion at ;;'r,aats
occupied by fron 1,000 to 1,,.:.J7 troops in early 'Iovomlier 1951 The nuribers of
tanks 7 observed there ve.riod from 20 and 6o in
other respects, the present re,.)or'(. contains no clues supporting the aasurzotinn
that a tank component of the 207th Llta :le Div is s tatiort.e then , 50X1-HUM
The onlar omens. and im?rrovemont of th barracks i.-astallation
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at Staats do not s :cm to have beer. comple',ed at the beginning of :December.
Cormaent,, Probably the cons tr=action of a military h4utnont which is to 50X1-HUM
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guar or bro. is practicing at L tz7.ing Heath during the sm.r.er training )or f od.
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