MILITARY INFORMATION FROM MERSEBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400310003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1- Or C Docenber 1?51, Colonel Smirnov (fnu) eras identified as the corm din; officer
of the unit in the Flak Kaaerne on Gousaerstrasso, T.erseburg (Li 52/D 91). Source
noticed no particular training activity, but observed that ofiicers$ NCOs and EM
wearing red-border-ad black epaulets wit' th artillery insignia word able to get tozm
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2,, Source detorndned that tho ration. strength in Via Flak k>as erne r ^s nightly above
1,100 men in the nid: le of November?
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unit was per iodically estimated by this and another source at I tween 900 and
1.,200 men. It is therefore beliovcd that the majority of the compo -cents 'of the
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