SOVIET TROOPS IN PERLEBERG

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400330003-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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11 January 1952
..n c ar.L December 1951, Colonel Barabash (fnu) ~:Frn
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u..w Asq .7 G`11dG LJA
on ndenstr:'asse, Perleber?g (M 54/T 70). He had succeeded Lieute--
1?an1; Colonel Smyrnov (fnu) ?.ho left for reassignment. Principal
veanons observed in the billeting area da ill from 2 to 8 December
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as its administrative officer wwaas ca u -rtered in the
s,r i.llerie :aserne~ Perzeber-
up to the sunnier of `195 , it ?id
rot return to the ryrtillerie z,.aserne upon completion
r uneuvers, but moved to Lud.%,::igslust~(L:54/T rof the sur1r er
2, Cfficers identified in the F'lieperhorst Kas rne, Porleher;, in
crrl.y December included: General. In.akur:in (fnu) Lieu ten ant Colonel
.''nar.ayev (fnu), chief of staff: : L.! cutenant Colonel P:'ckonkin (fnu)
LIet;.tenant Colonel Drapachenko (fnu) who succeeded Lieutenant Colon(,
'i.vc-varov (fnu) upon his departure to the ti*S.S?I+u for reassignment-}
an.d Llajors Zorokin (frzu) , Za' chko (fnu) , Babonko (fnu) .and Vasil.1r
(fnt;) Zt arras s aid that t e --_artillery or AU artillery unit under the
cornirand of Major Vasili.yev would soon be transferred to 1,u,3V1:`,7
-}cu? ce did not hear that a lank unit mould be transferred,
was identified in the Flie geerhorst Kaserne in early Decen'iher,
3. The military post kiorspita,l rrn Bayer Teich, whose administrative
officer was Capt-,.iin Kieshin (fnu), was again occupied by troops
Ia fiid-iloveraher 'instead of hoin? returned to the Municipal ad-
L-.,Ans.str::ation.
4,_ Oa 4 December, .the Soviet telephone exchange,
01i_ch was 16catec at tee ,zors r -isse and guarded by soldiers
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wring black:-bordered black epaulets twlith signal inc? i . ,t i? was
xbordinate to a signa'L unit in Schv_rerin.
5 Tae .rtillerio Kaserne on L,-Ur-_denstr asse wwl s only partly lighted on
I; _xe evening of Al. December. , U.most no training had haert
QDticed in the billeting area. on that d-11IT-F
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6. T;h' c uarters of the F1i'-.gerhol s , i:aserne I''et C) a' rout SO r'. :t con t
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Ii P.ht od on the everiinxs ?etwer 28 x'over;.ber and 4. Der.
On 2-1 Bove rber, t lie. ir. gill er1.::> i:asc~rrje as racc?tp' ed to napiclit-y by
tr fops, r_;ost of ;-r,hom wore red-bordered black ~eraulets and a few, .
bL ck-bordered black epaulets Sixty soldiers wore se -a practicing
CJ1_!-h four T--34/35 tanks in the barracks yard. Two `7-34/76 tanks
all four ;a?o,:,cl 42 uIS--3 t:ns of 76-mi: ,sere prIr red, in tic yard. C.v,'.y
tc' -)ops with red-bor,-'ered VU a,-,k epaulets and none with black-bordered
bi ac'; epaulets were seen in the biliret' ng area on C I over_-tbor n
u iit of about 50 ;:ion with rcCl-bordered bleak epaulets left the
in,t~iLlation towerd the town,, ::bout 40 trucks were seen through the
0n:m doors of the 5ara 'esa
0 t 29 November, the F1ic-erhorst i....so.rne w e copied to c:a " city
e -bordered bl.ac ep?11l ts, L"i_'hte?n
by troops who wore red-b6'
t.:. aic.s were noticed at the, air.'fieldd
_~ Ctart: ent The 343th I;n r Ian of the 13th ecz Div formerly
s ;itiont d in Perleber, , 4 'as Yreviousiy confirn od :n Ludw _nslList
until :: ic -i:ovember 1 51. 'i: jor Lepeshkin
01,":W) has been carried as see a .._a ion .s opts y commander to date.
Ccr^Ar ent. The information on the occup,et:i.cn of the Perleber
ti: titiary poet furnishes no rtes clues a.s to the identity of th e
25X1 units there
ho 2.15 r.'u s of 7a ?:.., Y:L, t"'.1?Il Li'"n ed.
ifl i'C/ present report, nrob'~ >7_v '_ncludedl. S')i'~' '~--WIM rtuns The
25X1 ooserva :.nn of JS --3 tanJ.,s in t:Iir :.rti1lcarie~ .. r rr e con .ot be
accounted for because the t.,t _ _ battalion of . the 5 ~;.tth l,'ecz egt of
25X1 the .ecz . _l.v, whi4.'l -3-s s C.~t,:1 'eCc i ti? re rX37., other units, l77 am 4 'rry ~y~.T?:i ~has
i-"-34s I -yndlc t he /L . c~ n fir s the 51"t" ?ecz c7t in
25X1 Frrleber until the of 1951, Its co;ri~t:and3n; of '1cer is
believes to be Colonel i 1r' .t? ash ("z tz) who has been repotted to be
25X1 only the commanding officer of the . rt:i.ll eric :aser'no to ate,
?aieufonan.t Colonel CAaicher3'_~o (frig:,), rather than the unl;.novn Lieutenant
Co _onel I_myrnov (fm.-.), is carried as the predecessor of Colonel
25X1 ... ~lr'al_ash. con.f irins the lire 1;Jt'i r'.':ecz Ro'xt n 1 ).'7 eher' tant,11
early December l 3 . Corer a1 Inakurzn (fnt?) is probebly I:_r?i.jor Gcner'- _!
25X1 Inauri, cones ending general of they 13th TKocz Div T~;ho is known
f xrom a press dispa ch ' Colonel..
25X1 ezsm ev (fnu) is known as na.zrx s c.lie.L or staff. :,i rte
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. ~:-LIIYOV K111111) -as t C)i12"_,3nC LY2.P Q.::i `!_Cer Q : ,. t''t.nl Unit ,'li1 ^11
c 1 eqodly r,,j.oved to i.,tidwi sltlst. Cax tf iir: I=I`. .7t1_7 n (fru)
is?% rrob?ibly the I-Iaje r of tile: 9are riai c Oahe ,.?,as. identl.t'ie(i vi1r th
LV: e I.eadquarters -in Iacrleber - in T?arch,. 1)510
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