SOVIET TROOPS IN JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400310009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troors in Jena
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to On 23 ;loveiber 1951, soiree observed that the civilian apartment houses on both
sides of 3tiftor Strasse,p Jena (P 51./I 61)., had been surrounded by a board fence
and added to the billeting area of the Loebstodt Kaserne on itair::ibu gerstrasse,, (1)
On 2L 1 lotireMt7er five tanks were seen in the, bil:.otin,_ area of the Loobstedt Kaserze
and tank Ito the installation, Ono T-3L tank and truck
were seen in the bill o ink; area on 28 Novez ber, Groups of soldiers wearing red-
bordered black opau.tota2 including some with artillery insignia, and carrying car-
'ines, targets. telephone and radio equipr.--rat were seen entering and leaving the
installation during the period, from 23 to 29 Novenber, (2)
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On 24 rlovember, the Polizei Kasercze on Itathenaustrasse quartered about 00 troops,
A i ni-144 of about 1DJ, soldiers with about 100 of them wearing red borel.ered b:LaeiL
epaulets,, left the installation for the no -ion picture theater, while about 10
soldiers with black-borderec'?. black epau3.e u.3 marched out of the billeting area with
On. 2`1 November, JS tank 0 and 12 soldiers practicing with three 37-ma AA
gins were seen, in the yard of tho raetzeri Kaserne on Naar bvrgerstrassod. About six
Lrarae Y, resembling those of rocket launchers uere neon an a sgara a of the installation,
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On. 27 'November. a training; area containing a fire lane and a c16so combat course
was noticed on the Lllaale River bank cast of Tleuen,gocnria, C k northeast o' ' Jena,
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(3rf. 2h Never ber,, source learned that tho apartn;,nt house: on both sides of Leo 25X1
Sachso Strasse, including the girls E school, betacen Jrevenstrasse and 1Toolderlin->
weg, had been surrounded by a fence and declared. a military hospital area,,
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(1) e ififorr tion confirms a report by another source?
(2) The Loebstodt KaE7;rne and tine Zwaetzen Kasorree still _ uar tero :size le components
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(3) The identity of the troops in the Polizel Sasorne has not been deterr .ned, The
vniacles observed there belong to a meter transport unit of the XXVIII Gds T Lz Rifle
Corps.
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"4) Apparently a rantary post trainin" field for the units in the
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xoebsteclt Kaserno and the Zwaetzen aserne,
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Y now rec tr4.ctod . aroa in the soothe stern ski o r of the city
is reported for the first tine.
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