SOVIET TROOPS IN CHEMNITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900230004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNT' Y aerr rz (Soviet Lone.) PORT NO.
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on 26 January 1952, 120 unarm al troo;-)m incliuling about 1.0 officer: ;'rtes seer:.r.
uareh:hing out of the airtilierio Kaserrao on Leninstra .see `'nc.ritz (N 53:/K 66) 11;
A 11-1 kc eoaalets includsna some rit a tank insiznia, Scaly..
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?.roc:s wore red-bor. dere ac a
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2., ,a aot.t 20:) rocruits with red-bordered black e aulets :yore observed ix)rehin fro r^.
he Infanteric Kaserne on Leninstx as:;e to the r:rzuuei 7a1 indoor = c:aing pool on
?6 January:, oeveral officers with artillery insignia were sacn passing thToa-h
he barracks gate,
31, _1 unit of 1E officers and 10 yon M,rin- 1,laclc--bordered red epaulet ruid carry .IrL.
rifles and sub;"3achine guns narc :ec. out of the 11ac1wichten .asoreu on the north
side; of ?.dalbart Stil:terveg, Lbfirsc. orf'--.;orf, on ?_O January Inaddition to
25X1 6r hic1C 5 tri..ckc ,?ras Seen. lerrv i gag the iAzc: tr l:i
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3oviot Troo?os in oherzt3tz
In the evenings bet;vecn 13 and. 22 January., all quartors of the fir~ti.:l.terie I:asczrr
i:,.i hbarsdorf Ost and the :lac:xichtcn lKnserr_e in ~~1:ersdorf-;;est rrerc full
illu inatodn The continuous roar of rwai .ng rxtors.l >ms heard from the ,;arres o
thhhe ilachrichten K4rsorne. "L'ho tYho barracks inctailationu scor.re'.i to + c oc,,o,:tied 10(
inacityu ".i1 sc dicrs seen _=sin through the gates as well as the soratrics? a
ates 1" ore red- XJ2'dored black ~~7au etea CXro'3")s of up to 23 soldiers with red-
borckered black epaulets were soon practicing telephone line construction in the
victtnity of the billetin; areas, About 1:5 soldiers were observed receiving
tra: raln; in. firings; while other troops s:iziulated attackin individually and. a`:?
squad level on 22 January.,. ,.bout to unarme soldiers -.ith red-bordered black 25X1
epaulets received close--order drill in the ;hard of the Artillerlo ;aserno on t?.r :?
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Alert seen at the two barracks ir~:.;tallations,,
5. n 1.8 Januarys the Infantorie i:asor.no and the r_rtillerie Kaserne on Leninstra ::c
-yore occupied b a total of about 60) troops who wore blacks bordered reel epeule`
,tucont drivers practiced with uru k in front of the Artil?.erie I ssor
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Class. Changed To: TS S OSTAT
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`:roo-;~s training in the Zoisi roods north o?' t ze inutallation includes?
11 reran practicing aith an ai:ain;.; cir c1 e~ on :7? th black-bordered rod
c -)aul.ets a%1-111 . riles recoivi rIc yield trainin-_a 5.) ..Ion ,7it'a black-bor. dered
,. cd 3paulets receiving theoretical ins `Lr Ictioz2g a:-iv.: to telephone
construction ere-,7s nract icin- the strarr- ng of line? ~i 1 nit of 10) non ;,.ore rod-bordered black e iaulets a .1 carried rifles was se.an -:gar chi ; along;
forest lane.