SOVIET TROOPS IN GERA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011400190002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,., Abut 2L February 19x2, the Fuss Kaserne in 7ora ( 51/K 06) was occupied
to capacity. A German working in the installation said that there were
3,)00 to 3,500 troops there. All of the troops were restricted to quarters
and forbidden to drink alcoholic beverages. The newly arrived troops in the 25X1
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epaulets without branch-of. serv_,'_ce ins!.;, nia. Tine trucks towing 7602-+`m AT
g;u s, were seen moving out of the .:cuss !. aserne on 13 Fe')ruarl,r
vo of the trucks carried 30 soldiers with red-bordered black epaulets. Cretins 25X1 B
of eight soldiers practiced aiming and loading with two artillery pieces of
abut 100-x. in. the barracks yard? Officers with artillery insignia were 2A .p
2, 200 troops were seen assembling in the barracks yard on 23 February. Lore trc cs
were still in their Guar ersa
2~ No changes in the occupation of the barracks installation in G:era-Tinz were
determined prior to 23 February,
30 Prior to 15 February, the Panzer Kacerno in Gera-Tinz still quartered the unit
from .,eimar which consisted only of-. officers and 11COs who had not been seen
performing any routine duties. Source had the i ~.pres ~ i on that only classroom
instruction was held in the installation.
It. Prior to l' February, the i uss Kase. ne quartered about :1,300 troops who wore
red-bordered black: epaulets ry. German working in the installation raid that
the easternmost, villa-like building in the billeting area housed a 'brigade
headquarters. Source himself believed that the I;euss Kaserne quartered only
ore unit in addition to the aforenentionod headquarters. Several trucks on
blocks were noticed in an open garage on 9 Februar. Three. AT guns of about
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8 mm stood in the barracks yard on 11 February. About 200 troops
fr.-)m the Reuss Kaserne practiced the throning of hand grenades and
airing with rifles in the area northwest of Vselsweg from 8 to 10
a.m. on that day, *
Comment. The two sources confirm the unidentified AT artillery
rigs e of the XXVIII Gds Ltz Rifle Corps in the Reuss Kaserne, Gera,
The headquarters and two regiments of this brigade are carried in Gera.
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IThe brigade's third regiment pro-
bably moved to Rudolstadt.. Source of paragraph 1 has repeatedly mentioned
newly arrived units with tanks in the Panzer Kaserno since November 19510
:tith the exception of the training unit from .1eimar-11ohra which., according
to the source of paragraph 3, is located in the panzer Kaserne, there
have been no definite indications as to any other units which might have
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