SOVIET OB SUMMARY 6, 7 AND 9 MARCH 1952

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900380008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FOkM )IU. 51-~tAA
FEB 1952
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT N0.
CD N0.
COUNTRY Germany {~~assian. Zone)
SUBJECT Sov3r~v dD Summary 6, 7 and 9 March 1952
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THIS DOCUMENT CDNTA INS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF-THE UNITED BTATEBr WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18~ SECTIONS 793
AND 794,. OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSDN IS
PROH 181TED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
.A unit of an unidentified artil ery division with 16 guns was loaded at Potsdam
on the aright o#' 4 Maa~ch, chy other loadings of undetermined troop units
took place . _C\~ ~~
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unloaded at Magdeburg during the night of C2 February.
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1. Toro troop trains,-. probably coming from the Neubraniie
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2. 'rains carrying tank troops of the 20th Guards Mechanized Division were unloaded.
at Haldensleben on ~$ Febx?u:ax?y.~
~.: A tx?ain carrying AAA components of an unidentified: division of the ~-th
Guards Mechanised Army was observed at the Jueterbog railroad station on
1 Mareho The train. probably came from Fuerstenwalde.
A signal unit of the GOFG was loaded aboard a train bound for Naumburg at
~rewitz near Potsddzn on 28 February.
A light AAA Regiment of the 32nd AAA. Division was loaded on two 25X1
trains at Kuestrin on 27 sand 28 February. The trains departed for Jueterbpg.
6. Small units of solc~.e?s, accompanied by trucks, from the Nachrichten and.
Luetzendorf easernes at Weimar entrained at the Weimar railroad station i"t~om
the night of 29 February to 2 March. ~'he troops were armed with hand arms
only..
7. Ma,~or advance parties from Oranienburg, Bernau and Prenzlau arrived at the
Templin training area prior to 5 March.
$. The light AAA Regiment of the Second Guards AAA Division entrained in two.
shipments at Potsdam. and Wildpark on 28 February and moved to Altengrabow.
Another unidentified trope transport, leaving Wildpark on 2 Mareha had. the
same destination.
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!Commento It is believed that a command Est exercise has been conducted..
in~aumburg ax?ea sines -the headquarters o~ the 17th Guards iwiechani~ed
Rif ].e Diuisiax~. 3~eft N'aumbux?,~o
25X1 ~~m~esa;t: Cvrupanents of this division also practiced. in th.e J~creterbog.
ages, in t~pring of lq~l.o
1G? 'Iwo troop shipments from.Oranienburg and one from.PrenZlau moved. to Jueterbag
an ~. Leh o
11 ? many flatcar loadr~~s wr~uld
take glace bet~teen 3 and March in the RBD areas Schwerin, Magdebuxgt Halle,
and Ex?furt.
~Cc.ent? Z~his in~"ormation in~.i.ca~S that as in the npast~ training cycles
i,zi~lvi the?-ta~~~c~nen~ts of all tank di-~i.sions have resumed at Letzling
.~ ~eath.+ _.
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