MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE TEMPLIN TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011400210002-4
• 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 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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LZilitary Information from the Templin Training Area
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was prNbiou.sly
Bed inning 23 February 1952, military rail shipments coming from 25X1X
Loevenberg and proceeding in the direction of Tea,lin (l 54/U 51)
passed through Zehdenick every night. -
tanks moved through Zehdenick in a northerly direction
or a ou tnree hours on the night of 25 FF ebruary, Shipments which
gassed through.Zehdenick in .i northerly drection on 29 February
included:
dl a ~3 a,~,rz 34 boxcars with troops, 1~coach with officers and 19
flatcars with side racks, carrying 33 trucks.
41 boxcars with troops, ]. coach with officers and 13 flatcars
with side racks, carrying 34 trucks and 3 light artillery pieces.
12 boxcars with troops, 33 flatcars ^wit', side racks,
carry:i:ng trucks, light artillery 1,p eces, ro9ket launchers, field
kitchens, deeps and T-34 tanks Nos 230, 260, 2'0 and 280e
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Reports had been heard d z4 fro_w I'^c d4--^44c:~ the training area
since 23 February, Foresters, who had to discontinue their work,
stated that ma or f__eld exercises of units from Oranienburg were
held in the area of Loewenberg-Bergsdorf during; the period from 23
to 27 February. Source noted that despite the r:ilitary shipments
abservad in Ze.hdenick, that there had been no increase in traffic
as usually observed when units moved to the troop training grounds.
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activities in the Templin training area. The first rail moverrents
in the direction of Templin were reported on 24. February 1952.
25X1A The troop trains obs`'?rved on 29 February 1
possibly carried units of the 25th Tank Div from Oranienburg and,
according to tank turret numbers, Prenzlau. It is possible that
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during, the period from 23 to February 1952, field exercises of
units from t)ranier.b rg wer o held in t e Loewenberg...i3ergsciorf area
and that these units later roved to the Templin troop training
';rounds for a short period. On the whole, it appears that the
~'i : d exercises were only short ;rainin. , operations which did not
:r d lcate amore p:.rr^anent occupation of the troop training grounds.
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