SOVIET TROOPS IN KOENIGSBRUECK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011800350004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY (. err.:a:r..r ,oviet o; e) -~a,- ..REPORT
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_DATE PREPARE
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ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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~-c Prior to 19 Larch, the 1achrichtonsschule, south of the Koen.i~:sbrueck ra j_J.i: tJ?C..
station (I 52/A 31), quartered about 11000 troops who wore red-~t:'ori e-.rec. `,.;i:~ ~1:.
epaulets, including so;,:e with artillery insignia, A.bo-.it 70 sol~'"~.,.;_?e rgui... ; .
with rifles, sub,;,achine t::ans a,nd prec'Lice.targgets me-re.led fror,?- the r,?et.:a at o'n
to the ; c trainin {'rounds at about 9 n.n.. an 13 About 2i).) to '";0
troops were engaged is field training on th-: drill :rc:mds :bout '_O.J t,ld:i.er.r:
organized in groups drilled in the barracks yard on 14 1: circh., i'ra?' c~'J 0
soldiors practiced firing with black cartridges in the barracks ,arc and o,1;-'r
troops received instruction in several class rooms. Lhcut 40 soldiers ,",Te e
.en-aged in physical exercise, and about 100 soldiers c _^i7_led at ,-:troop "ten- e1,
the yard, Twelve soldiers nr zcticec with two mortars of about iO0.: n i ar,-~. a)--'U:
30 soldiers practiced racticed firing behind t_1 ' C bksu V1Zl.~_ ~C'ir h[l~,i.k-VL 1.~_.' n '
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with _ rifles, were engaged in . _!_eld trai r'_ -n-- in t -ie inc training are e " ":'ec>_
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was cordoned off The bet,-:~:c;n c3 and 1 i ~
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pistol fire ms heard during, that tire. -About 250 drilled in the barr".a.C,"
yard on 19 Lerch ~ The Aue tr in
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2. The Ait,es Lager northwest of the railroad s- T,,.. 25X1
detail of not core than 3; soldiers who wore red-bor6ere:I black a t,) ,.~-!1; ts.
iru SOne with art._i_.L-! ery insignia. * n 12 is;arch asc6__Lne (ru S ';'Tr'.7 ch fare
apparently filled, were unloaded frcxn trucks ~r.: i;:~ v;_25X1
in the tar e garage The fuel of to ~: truck,
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i Luar ere i r3 011."+_ C i.Z'oopS.: Soldier.' observed ore
black eaa.ulets, most~R_ y artillery ins a. 0n l13 .: arch, the rod tc
lager was blocked by a. road barrier nd guarded by sentries for
this year. :;roue out 13 :-"arch and the -_`reccean- rI. 1':5, ertil.LC.fire %,ci. t '.alt li,
from, the s rr ouildl.n` ^Y'e;t., the tr`JU, ~: als~ i .
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arlc were to be er. ptied. colunn c!a _)ve frc: thr C?i
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