SOVIET TROOPS IN ZEITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700370002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC o,riet Troops in Zeitz
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flATF OF eni rrr- M i 28 December 1051 to 19 January 1952
ATE PREPARED_ i February
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2? On 3 January 1.952-, a unit of about 1,000 troops who wore red-bordered black
epailet.s with artillery insignia and were equipped with rifles and mortars
and another unit of about 500 troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets
wi.t i tank insignia and carried rifles, submacht.ne guns and range finders
mar;hec; out of the Infanterie Kaserrie on the east side of Friedensstrasse,
Z(,,i bz (M 52/K 08). The two units were organized into platoons of from 50 to
100 men each, each platoon being under the cmnand of an officer About 60
leer.-ent of the troops observed were recruits. The two units subsequently
engaged in field training and entrenching practice at the training area around
Grosso:?ida? Close-order drill in+ralvine groups of up to 30 soldiers was noticed
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sa the billeting area during the period from 6 to 12 January^,
2 On 12 January, the Artillerie Kaserne on the -rest side of Friedensstrasso
quartered about 1,500 troops, most of _om wore red bordered black epaulets
ivitri tam, insignia,, About 60 percent of the troops were recruits. 1.11 troop
quarters were fully lighted after sundown,, A total of 63 T-32 tanks were seen
the f our garages, and about 30 SP guns were seen in a large workshop build-
ing on 23 December 1951,: The other garages wore er:pty, and the doors :^rere opcn.
25X1 r i"arae r.-3) tanks left the installation toward
25X1 Golben on 31 Decera er, a--,,;., tan, was scan almost daily at the barracks
ate and on the aearb training 3. ie .1etveen 2 December 1951 and t, January 1952
ITcehicles observed in front df the officers' r,r`ss and club at ' -17 Friedrich
Engels Platz daily from 1 toy January c ?u piedby a 25X1
eolcne:'. and a lieutenant colonel v. th tank insignia,, Sedan occu,aied 25X1
by a general with tank insignia was seen on 2 January., The officers, mess and
c t.b bel ~?. ed to the Ar er e, n Vehicles serve ' at the Artill.erie 25X1
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o{ocupi{.a. to capacity by al)out 2,000 roows with red- or ered black epaulets
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curing the period front 11 to 19 January.
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