SOVIET TROOPS IN GERA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200390010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

firer-iany (Soviet ;once)
Soviet Troops in Gera
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total of about 150
troops o The trucks returned empty to the installation after about three
hour.. On 28 January, about 1,800 troops wearing red-border-d- black epaulets
with tank, artillery and rotor . transport insignia were seen rec,ei"vint; field
training, close-order drill and training in firing in the area along
Dornaer Landstrasse. A unit of about 150 men, also observed e ?c was e ui t .ed
with skis parkas for camouflage in snow, and ca:rluirles t. 25X1
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r occupied to capacity.
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la Prior to 4 February, the Rouse Kaserne on Steirxertsberg, Gera ('? 5l/K 06)
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1 officer and 12 soldiers with red--bordered black epaulets and towing a
canvas4-coma rear. artiller piece, apparently a 100x, AT gun, lef , the Reuss
2 3 Prior to 4 February, the barracks installation in Gera-Tina sti'11 quartered
the artillery unit of about 2.50 men from .,eirmar W The unit was coma" nded by
a colonel,, The ammunition supply installation southeast of the billeting area
was guarded by troops from the i euss Kaserne 4
3n On 1 February, the barracks installation in Geri Tinx quartered about 120
troops vi; o had arrived on sir- trucks from .eimar shortly besore Chr: sta.~d s 1951.
Source observed that the troops were almost exclusively erg;aged in theoretical
instrruction0 There were rum ors that the troops were an advance .;art;r which
was to do the work preparatory to the establishment of an artillery school
Troops other than those stationed there, including officers ve;;:tc permitted
to enter the barracks installation only upon special clearance 3y the
commanding officer: Even the commanding officer of the unit previously
quartered there had to wait at the guardhouse before being oscorOtedt into
the installation by an officer,, The unit of about 2,,400 troops, ktieh warm
previously station+x1 in Gera-Tin., r.Toved into the Prinz Eugen Kaso.r?ne? Kudol-
stadt. (.; 51/1 .), following their return from the troop trainthg grourc s, **
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On 3. the I?Puss Kaserne quartered about 13,50() troops, "ractcr-
eir.rmn AT i:uns were _~oticed in the billeting area * A gnr et rlir.y pc::".
of ice and telephone exchange were lrcatc rl in the corner
at the
in-.erEcectic-i of Karl Yarxstrasse and Icath.enaustrasse. The b Soviet
kor endatura was situated at 1 Ebelin ;strasse,, its officers lived with
VA'!ir .fami_l es in a restricted block of houses in !.'athilde :urmstra.^>,:ie
and 4 oe C.hestrnsse ,
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that the Panzer Kasen' nj Gera-ml'inM2 quarter a training
unit which probably came frog, :"einjar Nohr.a. The train n 't' r
tillery school of the i_r ht~a (ids Arry, an a~?.
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