SOVIET TROOPS IN DESSAU-ROSSLAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900230005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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F O ICIAT~., t~~4T,'.
''Lone) REPORT NO.
Soviet Troops in Dessau 1',os:~lat3.
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---PLACE OBTAINED-
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30005-5
IPREPARED 15 1ebrizar;/ .1-952
REFEREN C?ES.-l ~"-
PAGES._..... ? _- .ENCLOSURES (4O. & r1PE)_,
REMARKS.., - -.-.
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11 On 23 January 1952II the barracks installation in Dessau ironsL.au (11 52/I 17)
q:uirtered an undeterminod ni caber of troops rho wore red-borderu.1 black opaulete;,
inm:ludin , some with artillery and some with tank insi; ni , ,bout 6J soldiers ;'aerce 25X1
seen practicing with four heavy 120-rx:1 mortars at tl-, drill field noar the
installation, - while about 150 troops wore drilling without riles in the billeting:
area T_ I
2. On 23 January, Camp Gross Kuehnau Trost of Dessau ,ias occupied by about 2140 troops
nance
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'who wore rod bordered. black epaulets, Doldiers were se :n porfor*ling ma
work on trucks, T-32:/55 tanks and J5-3 tanks ctandin- in open s'ha in the catrp
n^ activity was noticcd in or around the car;,,
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3 truck convoy which pas.:ed thre-? '.1 des au at 9 a.al, on 3 Janua~y2 coning from .
db ction of ijo C,13u and -eroccs~.:dinr; to-~ard Ileideber^ consictocz of 13 trucks Tthi.c:h
to- ied v or 37-m-, A oan s and 3 field'. kitcilens o
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4On 7 Januarys a board fence; 2 rncters h gh c irac' bean
cor,stracted' aroundd Carp Gross Kuehhnau,, Ti7_ erection of sheds and. logs wooden lnrr; c
bui.ldirl s in the camp area continued, A few soldiers vrearind rod-bordered black
epsulots and a parking lot containing, 20 trucks were soon in the camp areas acvera.
25X1 tr_cks drove: to the city e~.~tpty but returned w
lows of laundry. A tank vise driven fro: ono ices:>au ire? nt yard G071al
Gamp Gross Kuehnaau on 5 January, **
5,, No A ,A were noticed within a circumference of 1.5 km around the road and rai lrc:
bridge across the a lbo :tiver from Des..au to ltioc ::lau on 7 January.
25X125X1 ,om-.-.ent m observed h; ivy mortars at the barracks instal*1ation .. '1
i77 ece.:ri_or 1251; hence the previous conjecture that the ).67th ?) i:ort cf;
25X1 of the 7th Cds Tank Div .novad from Koethen to hosulau is strengthened
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25X1 ??n Gorunont, ' ith the exception of continued construction, no changes are irlo ca
i n the situation at Camp Kueflnauo 25X1
25X1 - __ _- The truck convoy ps to the unidentified ; ., division of the Th.
G s '.aec-E nri v', t:{ ASSIFICATION nu GOTIT oT.~t, n^_TrTAT
Document No. -------------------
No Change In Class. 0
J Declassified
Class. Changed To: TS S e STA
Anth.: HR 74.2
Approved For Release 2006/02/27: CIA-RDP82-04
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