MILITARY INFORMATION FROM NEUSTRELITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011400200007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1.1ilitar Information from Ieustrelitz 25X1A
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25 January to 23 February 1952
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DATE PREPARED 20 ?are1G
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14 On 16 February 1952, a convoy of trucks I 25X1 B
I I i-las seen entering the Alte Grenadier
it.aserne on re tiers rasse, T eustrelitz (N 54/U 54). Each truck
was occupied by 1 officer and 6 men with red-bordered black epaulets
and towing a 160-mrr mortar > 25X1
Colonel .")rlov fn'u. commanding officer of the troops
in the Ale Grenadier Kasorne who lived on Kor~amandanturstrasse0 and
Lieutenant Colonel Kruv (fnu) political officer under Colonel Orlov
and who lived in the same building. Trucks
each towing a model 42 ZIS-3 76.2-ram field gun and 25X1 B
carrying 1 officer and 6 Caen with red-bordered. black epaulets, were
seen moving into the restricted Sc.lossgarten area on 15 February.
The Schlossgarten area also contained the r arstali, On 25 January,
a captain from the restricted Tiergarten area was seen with a letter
2. The following troops were seen asserrmblinL at the Soviet war
on 23 February:
mer:ori.al
Instal 7.at:_ T
una
er o TL'sI II
99ur pf glx Th
u;a'g '
cif
O
ffi
CeLra
,
Douaumont Kaserne
5
63
1,975
red-bordered black
t ank
4
Restricted Sc?loss-
garters area
323
red-bordered black
artillery
253
red-bordorc;d black
artil L_ery
2
Grenadier i.aserne
2
11
323
red-bordered black
artil1ery
2
Restricted Tier-
garten area
13
196
black-bordered black
engineer
2
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Restricted area on 17 462
Fritz Reuter Strasse
Restricted area on 22 400
&orhart Ilaup .r ann-
strasse
signal
red+-bor 1ered black 2
25X1A qp.M, = , The inforr.ation frot.r the Grenadier :asorne confirms
4th Iaort Heat of the t th Gds Tack Div with its commanding
officer Colonel Urlcw (fr_u). as 160-Ear-,i.. mortars have been observed
.At a the mortar rogix-;ont there, as 4M a!s w1t6the mortar
regiments in 1 eurui}pin and i`a ,_Ie'h'rg, 'it -4s Iairly definitely believed
'iaat a component of the mortar red; i raent, with tank and mechanized 25X1A
divisions, probably one battalion of each regiment. has beer, ree uiY+ ed
with mortars in r1ace of 3_20W-mm ones. ,
to the present report,
25X1A The guns whicht, according
c;o
!:ere towed into the restricted Schlossgarten area were probably ...A
guns belonging to the 121s' ( ) z.1J3. Rep-:t which araon other units is
carried in the restricted areaj 25X1
an on2 ine(-,r unit o
the Second Gr.s Uecz [rny which is earri:a in the rests icte ; 3er~
-arten seea 3
25X1A "otDrier.1, T1o de `inite infor-at ion 1_s available to dete ?iAne
he the occupation of th inst'rl1_at ions in ei.nstreiitz from he !amber
o " flags. The troop strengths and br~x_~c:ra-of-service insignia observed.
constitute only a clue .and generally confirm previ otis conclusions
roaard.i:r the disposition of 'nits in Neustrel itz.
TI, .e occur?atir,n of the Grenadier i,.caserno by about 1,000
trooT)s greatly emcee=.1s the strength of the mortar regimen- whic;h is
carried there and which is believed to number about &10 men. There
is the possibility that the Gren-dier Kaserne t uarters a hitherto
unidentified unit ;;!-asides the mortar regiment, or that tht, mortar
regiment has been reinforced during the process o: rearmament,,
25X1 See IIComment *, It is believed plausible that the regiment may
now consist of three battalions, izacludin,=; a 16C -mm mortar (.battalion,
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