MILITARY INFORMATION FROM WUENSDORF-ZOSSEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700360006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REMARKS
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1, On 11 January 1952, (1arap Zosson at 71uensdorf (N 53/Z 91) was occupied by
about. 3,000 troops W, o wore red-bordered black epaulets, including same
with motor transport insignia, About 40 percent of the camp quarters were
lighted during the a>ening hours? Zany troops were seen moving about in
the billeting area, )ut no training or other routine activity was noticed.
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2, A Soviet officer sa .d that the Foviet komendatura was located in one of the
three apartment how-es on the west si-'t` of the Zossen -7uensdorf road just
northwest of Camp Z. sseaa. Two twin-axle, armored vehicles
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were ;;ern almost da..1y 43arking in front of the Icomendatur a E, Vr-niclus
3. Traffic `.Ts were nc longer seen in the Zossen-~. uensdorf area after 2P December
1951. The troop 'morments observed during the preceding days had apparently
come to an end. A t^ain seen at the Zossen railroad station on. 24 December,
rri;h the engine of ited toward . uenadcrf o carried 15 trucks.
(3) A motor column parked on the road trom
TTe' lensee to Saaloi , southwest of Zosser_, on i; January 1952, The vehicles
,were faced toward !' aglow carrying about 15
soldiers who wore :. ed--bordered black epaulets with. artillery insignia., and
it prime movers, ea? h carrying 6 soldiers and towing an AT gun of about 7G mmo
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4? On 11 January 1952, the Panzertruppen Schule, Wuensdorf, vka ich is located
at the intersectic .i of IIi ?;hway No 96 and Zehrensdorferstrasse, seemed to be
occupied to capac-ty by a unit of soldiers vho wore red bordered black epaulets,
most of Which had tank in }ii;niao Daily training observed during the days
preceding 11 Janu-ry involved about 150 dnarmed soldiers receiving close-
order drill at thchule at about 3
an 10 January. There was little vehicular traffic at the installati.ono
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ran { ,) q ta.rna. `e o `about 3,000 troops in Carol Zossen is reported for the first
time and is in the rare of possibility. The units there are believed-to
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include an AT artiller?y unit and a motor -4ranspcrt unit of the 0 'G o
The buildings per air 'n to the Panzertruppen >chule are indicated on a
scotch attached t , The present report and information
received since the mo? -ement of the IIq Third Gds flees Army to Iffuensdorf
indicate that the Panzertruppen Schule houses the commarx echelon of the
army headquarters in buildings 11o an unidentified army 25X1
headquarters unit with tanks, possibly the 50th 1"trcl Regt from the Stalags
at Luckenwalde; and a tank and vehicle repair shot in the section of the
billeting area around workshop building 11 1 25X1
The rmachinery.P, *.ich according to paragraph o the present report,,, alleged-
ly came from Magdeburg I3uckau ?ia believed to have been manufactured by, rather
than dismantled from, th plants there Compare with ~;om ent (9) 25X1
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25X1 (6) onfiiTis the officersv schhooi of the COFG in uersdorf up to
.;., cen er 1951,, The information contained in paragraph 9 of the present
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4 + 4 aln" Of this school in the Hindenbur Kaa-o ne:, : ce
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(7) . e ease ?_n -e num car of troops in the Lutz Kaserne is probai::ly?
connected with the arrival of army headquarters troops rrho possibly crane
in aboard the trains on 19 and 28 December 1951.
(8) The report reentions for the first tine that AJ C4ns were moved into emplace-
rant; and thus confirms the movement of the ltq Third Oda Mecz AM.,., The
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