MILITARY INFORMATION FROM PERLEBERG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011500350001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

COU NTR Y ??. r (YE K'l ;17`J ;'Quiet 'Lane) -.-REPORT
-Ila Zni orr-ation from r or.LeuOrIT
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EVALUATION A_:
DATE OF CONTENT.
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES . ____ENCLOSURES
REMARKS A.__-.
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DATE PREPARED 28 ',1`a eh 195:2
I.n Until 1 '.;arch 1952, tie /':rtillerie Xsserxne on i,l,ndenstrasse, Porleberg
5b./T 70), was occupied by an estimated 1,200 soldiers wear sheets
rod
,ordered black epaulets. _j lp were washed monthly for the Artilleric Kasorne,, Small units were often
seen marching to the training field daring the time of observationo.
On 17 February, 62 troops carrying 8 LT rifles and 5 light machine guns
were seen, and lr officers and 32 Ell, carrying 4 r.T rifles and 1 corn. ander's
telescope on 25 February. Individual training with 62-mm mortars, 76.2-m
field guns of model 43 and artillery pieces of about 150- was seen daily
during the period from 20 -February to 1 :"arch. A band of 24 men and about
200 soldiers on 23 February passed in review before an officer who had two
2 n Pr-.or to 21")' February 1952, the Fliegerhorst Kaserne was occupied by apx roxi-
ria aely 1 500 troops wearing red-borC Ore d black epaulets. F_ _1
more sheets were washed for the Fliegerhorst Kaserne than for
th lrtil "e: Kaserne. Student drivers were seen practicin^ with. a T-31.a
chassis. tanks were in the -araaes
3~ All houses in the restricted areea. at Bayerteich were occupied on 26 February.
16 or 7 off`icers' families were bil.l.eted there. Three
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physicians were a.s sir ncd to tho _hospital, Five officers wearing green
caps and green collar patches were seen enterinc; and loavin ; the re-
stricted area
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,:i u.ary, the switchboard had vacatod, 'U he building cr. ieetzer 3traasen
The building was cleaned and reconditioned by civilians. Four new tuo--
iro circuits connected the restricted area at `.ayertoich with the
barracks installation via the athletic field and .riopfenstrasce,. flew
poles carrying oi-ht two-,r?i re circuits -,sore not up from the barracks
installation in the direction of s7 tlit7.Clothing, and. ration supplies
of all sorts -ero stored in l: he depot cn The
depot -cas supol .e~, by the central distribution point in ,"a`?c.eburg, Two
boxcarloada and 12 or 13 tons uroW-,-ht by truck arrived er week and were
i r, ued to the units in the barrackcs installation, at the airfield and
in t ho restricted la,rerteich area. :'onthl, turn-over exceeded 120,000
eels t r. arks,
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Prior to 29 February l952, t!--(P .'., till ar _rs i a ae3rr e was occupied airiest to
capacity by about 1,000 old, crs ;oE rin' red-'bordered '. lack epaulets. Two
76.2-r n a rtll.lor r pieces an,,, 6 T-311/,25 tanks bcin-- washed were seen in
he r ae!! s '.rc Y'G ,
In Vie afternoon of 29 Febru^ry, the F1ie ;crhorct haserne did not appear
to be fully occupied, 0 saw ioprints of t nook tread".- and believed
that the troo_Ps had left for oxercices,:, T-3-4/85 tanks
.Ere seen in they barracks -card. F_ I
6 Colonel larabash (.fnu.), cor:.rr!andin officer of the Artila.:er e Kaserne, had
not returned to, the installation on 22 i nbruar:r 1952,: Lieutenant Colonel
aclr in (fnu) acted as his de put;r? + ro~x.ps of fro-:i 30 to $0 men, totaling
to 300, daily marched to the post trainin ; field They were e uipped
vii i:n LT rifles .. `1 i'""ht and heairr machine ..uns and mortars. I
r"' ey wore followed by true 1: o hick towed a 12 i*_r? ^.i?T'taT.
On ? 9 February,, 122 -l-
.Di iovritzers were seen for the first tine leaving; the
installation ir.div dualism, ?le interpreter of the construction bureau
said on 21 :'eUruat- that 2,900 non ate daily in the installation. The
switchboard at 01 J oetzor 3traoso moved to 2`uild _n~ Fe G of the !xtil.lcrio
9ic`LsPrne or ) - ebruary.
"' fc switchboard vias .still under the con .end of Senior Lieutenant t'.,;tankov (fnu)
w7,o wore C 1_ack-b ?rdereC black epaulet s with siarlal ins-.4? nia.,,
7, 0cmeral lnauri. (fnu) was still absent on 22 February 1952. The units sta-,
tioned at the airfield are still. under the coir.r nod of Colonel :'.nanyev (fnu )
gtnjor Zorokin$s unit was taken over by the 'Astor Vol ,:ov (fns;i)., Lieutenant
Colonel i'7(, -a.-f_'n {fn,..t) is no Ion, or at the post'.- i,;
and his successor are rc,L known, L eutenar't Cee1orel !.ra ac,ri -o {fns)
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;received matpriel from the construction bureau on
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a a:r n wFan i ov fnu , _or?eviousl; r rc ported as I ar:ikov (fnu ),
IS an ath ini^trative officer v o as natic rc>pon,:,iIle for the airfield
at "erleber" b;,' the Kech office in. :Vwrh rth 'it- also ha:;' acne Cf)"r nee ion
with units in T nWwi sluust and pearchila '%cc
n at the field on 27 I'ebruar
tir -Tr.?carec roconna?ssafCe
oar of t;, e BA-64 was seen at the airfield. a v;o ,^ajors, one woarin" red
bordered blac',r epaztle 3 with artillel i ns-i.gnia and the other wearing
black-bor6erod black epaulets ai'th en inecr insi ;nia, were seen at the
;uarahouse:, The si_ nal unit bi:h,ich ha(' boon billeted at 6l ;c,etzer :;trasse
as transferre(' to ;3uildin ; t.o 2 of the Xarrac .s installation. The b3.-1l
:'or electric li;;ht i.as -iven to an irterpretor the re.-ark that he.
was to pass it on to senior Lieutenant ,tankov (fn.) 4:s,
In addition to the units of the 5E`th ; ecv Let of the 1` th
Co.aent
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stationed ir_ the %rti llcrie ':aserne 122-c?ar? or lc'2 ?r. artillery
r,ypce; gore also ab:~er~r ci
It is possible
-t,hat components of the 1054th ;ion Art;, Rest of the 11;th ;:'ecz Div which
is believed to be stationed in Ludi'iigslust may be located in Perleberg
The ration s tren ;th nertioned in ra ;raph 6 of the
pre sen repor ' .oos not ap?ear to be exaggerated as, on the ha t.s o ' the
T/r, the r?iochanised regiment alsone mad number about 2?O0 ;:tens The nov ?
:-[ent of the switchboard from Reetzoi 3tz asse to the rtillerie Kaserne has
teen previously i npcrtecl, `'??^ of .' .vcru arc ' ror;:nc?
n r? +?'T
vri iv a /OC':' LC3 :. C L i? T CL ~~.> , . , W:'P
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Pork Lerg i^ reported' for Vie first tir!e s iricc the ;ail of 19.:)1fl
''tartars of 160-rim have nover been observed there pveviously.. It
rosin to be z d t< r: ~ir..c d uhothcr they bolon - to co:-^pononts of the
unidentified nortar re iment of the l(th -ocz -;iv believed to be
sta 1ioned in I.:c'vr:~.~s1uSt.
an er cry unit of
a Th jor ?asi elicv frm at tic! r I ie:;c rhorst i . , ' me tri.th components
apparently stationed in Luc':: -;