SOVIET TROOPS IN LUDWIGSLUST.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200400008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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IV Loa 2:1 Jr.aaaa.ry 1952, troops with red-bordered black epaulets were stationed 25X1
at 'Vie Techentin airfield near Ludwigslust (~. q)4/T 53)e JS-l talc k 0 25X1
vex'e seen leavi.n;,; the billeting area
on the :c aaei oemit a One SU-76 31-1 ~,un an_ 3 canvas-covered tanks were in front
of the tank, repair shop on the road to Berlin.
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On 21 January, the eue ?'eitter `,aserne on :arstallstrasse was occupied below
capacity by troops two wore red -bore:ored black epaulotr o Uniformed women tirea ci n
the, ,3 c. type of epaulets were noticed in the billeting area 25X1
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On C January, the -'eue Leiter. Kaserne was occupied to capacity by troops, most
of whom ti?ro ?e red-bordered black epaulets and a few,, black--bordered red epaulets,.
' o 150=-Tam artillery pieces and 6 x l20-u mortars were parked in the barracks
. yard , f bout 40 soldiers with red-bordered black epaulets wore; seen drilling.
Vehipslee idc"t-ified driving; from, and to, the billeting area 25X1
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3, On 1:1. J :nuary, the late Zeiter Kaeerne on 'ixrstallstrasse was occupied to capa-
city by troops, most oa. vxliorra wore red-bordered black epaulets and a few, black-25X1
borderer' blacks epaulets tdt1i. engineer inst. ?n5_a,. 0 Twenty-eight canvas.-coverk
pontoons, 3 or 4 of which could be :Loaded on one truck and four 122 artillery
pieces v-ore; seen in the bille6int0l area. 1I In addition, about 70 troops wore
seen. pr?..eti.cing : ith eight l2{}--r ra mortars ? Another 40 troops practiced with 25X1
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On 9 January about 600 troops w th red-bordered back epaulets fvere
5tationed" r~yatTechentin airfield. y ;oldierc ?i ero seen servicingeight
T-34f35 Yanks in front nf' +.h n ?Tarac es.
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*1 J o= .1entTh info miation in paragraph ] indicates the pcsssibilitY
that the (~c?s ilv Tank 31' egt of the 13th 'lee", 1 iv iay? tae} stationed
t ai-,-fie d _ v?T'tk yeas Fara`.'ra. ph 'i supports the asaui ptiori stated
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llogt of the 13th ,iecz Div are the tank training battalion of n e 59th
i1ec.z 1;(,;t are both stationed at Tochentin airfield,,
41* Co-.- onto The Alte and the I ue rteiter Kaserne are still believed. to
barter the 1554U, A.ow Arty Ile rt and the 31,3th T;n`r In- of the loth ecz isv- -
The present report contains no indications rog 'ding
the location of the .159th T:.ecat there., but more is no reason to doubt
that the re inentt is quartered in the installations concerned It is
poc.sible that '- r : r:onents of the regixntent ria;; be stationed at Toehen
tir airfield I i according to
the present report, the division"s unidentified mortar regent is presu ak.
located. in the Alte and the aaeue Reiter I+aserne -,
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