GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011400160009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Tt33 ICa.,~,,~.. General
CU; A IATInKI see below
DATE OF CONTENT 10 February to 1 .arch 1952
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1e, On 18 February 1952, 1s x 7602- mm guns and 6 to 3 trucks.
were unloaded at the Cransee (II 5)/tr 60) railroad station. .umrous
fed grade officers, including a lieutenant colonel who wore tank insignia
were observed on the train,
2,, T3et en 10 and 24 February, no troops were unloaded at the Iolmirstedt (.: 53/
Y 61) railroad station vah' ch is the detraining point for the Letzli_ng Heath"
training area. Terri troop trains were unloaded.: at the I'la-debura. (11 153/V
gain railroad station during the night of 22 February,
13 '".arch 1952
A troop train unloaded at the Neuhaldensleben 04 53/Y 51) railroad station
on 28 February carried 100 soldiers i T-34/85 tanks 2 SP g?uns
unloading of a unit at the Ideuruppin (I 53/Z 49) main
railroad station an 23 February, The train arrived from, the direction of
Loewer berg 4:
5... On 26 Februar five '.'.'-13 rocket launchers
and an unknown nurher of 76,277m,. field guns and trucks were
unloaded a. .e Volten railroad station. (L)
C? On 24 February, about 20 trucks, each carryin
the ramp at Doeberitz (I1 53/Z 65) airfield?
total of 410 to 50 Soldiers 7777 reQ7 or tiered acct epau e
were observed 0 (5)
train v.tiich was loaded at the "'atzkorn railroad. station
~~Ion 29 February= consisted of about 2" cars with soldiers wearing red-
or erect black epaulets, 3 cars with light AAA puns
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On 1 La.rch, a troor -' ain, without an engine, was observed at the JueterR,
9,, On 14 February, ''O to 100 soldiers were observed in ',cissig near I'resdea3
(I.' 52k 29) constructing three overhead lines along the road to Dresden-
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o car witn a rod antenna was seen san in^ in w7eissigu 8)
The quo Rio' trains probably ca; :e from the Gre iz .swaldwa.eu'brandenburg area
where wall elements of all units subordinate to
a A II exercise on 1F Ftqbruarv 1952
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This indicates that the tank firing; practice by spa components
of ali tans: units in we ?ioviet Gone of Germany will be resumed at Letz-
ling Heath as has been done durinc the (3)
o a., y carne Toil the V ue er og area whereto components
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of the division moved on 18 February 1952.F- I
The the launchers belong to the unidentified rocket launcher regiment
of the Second Ods I eez Army in "r-Iinr+ri'atal tar9
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The troop train carried a component of the unidentified .,A division of the
Fourth Gds Yecz Army,, The unit probably came from the Fuersteanwalde port
from which all components of the division departed by rail on 27 February 1952
a :rain with a comnonent of the sayqp division
going toward Beeskov: via Frankfurt/C?d'er Ins the
train observed at the Jueterbog railroad station did not have a locomotive,
the troops rare possibly unloaded there.
The trucks observed belong to headquarters units of the First Gds ' ecz Arrnby
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