SOVIET TROOPS IN BERNBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700250008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On 7.8 December 1.9;1, troops -mi ?th black epaulets were seen in the barracks
installation, Homburg f2`: 52/D 76), while several officers with tank insignia
acre seen in the streets of the town, Intensive firing was in progress on
the target ranges
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2. In 3.2 January 1952, the barracks installation in fernburf, was occupied by an
n-:i.neer unit from Petsdar~ and a tank unit from as undetermined post? A rail-
roadman said that the tans; unit, received a shipment of 10 tanks by rail in
arly January, The unit altegec.l'r had 16 tanks when it. arrived at the post?
Uowever, source h mmcelf observed no banks up to 12 January, although he
:yaw officers and men who ore red, bordered black epaulets with tank insignia
.n the barracks installation as well as in the streets of the host, The
aforementioned railroadriar_ said that the e~n,ineer unit received a shipment 25X1C
of ['10 to 30 new pontoons at the end of December 1951, He added that 25X1 X
..the officers of the two units allegedly went to ?"agdeburg and Potsdam twice
-a week for indoctrination,.
Comrien.t,, The report confirms the ba:'racks installation in Bernburg as
naar? erirz4;cnn onents of the unidentified err.ineer regi-env of the GOFC., See
The identity of the tank unit mentioned in the present
r?eprorra: has no been o?t;ernined< but the two source.; fairly definitely confirm
tank unit stationed in tie installation . another source reported that an
advance party rf a tank unit was 3.n the installation in mi_d',>eptember 1951.
.1 report on rai 1 movements in late Decenriber? 1951 and early January 1952
);aentioned shipments of nor tan!-s from the ?J ,? w a r ,lt going to 3ernbuz?,, One
of these s'hinments, conveyed i.ri early January 1952, con:;isted of 10 tanks..
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