SOVIET TROOPS IN GRIMMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012000280002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, on 5 April 19529 the Stras.;bur Kaserne on Leipziwerstrassa, 'srima (N 52/E 1i3)
quarrterod aba:xt 2,000 troops who vote rod-bordered black epaulets? On 2 April,
7h tar'. zs, mostly T-346., and about 20 tanks of a heavier calitor ;sere noticed in ti-
billeting area a. Aleut 50 to 63 uniformed :nor-on. were on;;ajed in rifle drill in tll'te
ba: rac?ks yard. A `out 50 soldiers ?rith red-`bordered black epaulote, including a
drrni cr, practiced with small arras,.
2, on 2 Ipril, the Llsnor Kaserno on i?'ranz -.(aliringstrc75`.C3 "Ias occupied y a si rah.
unit. * The jority of the unit, oc(u3.p?yea with aJ-.::an tents, had departed for a.
troop training grounds at the and of Pabru.ery, 'kilo training activity was notice('
in the billeting area of the 1;1: nor Kaserne.
3? At the beginning of April, a ixeadquarters rra housed in Vie Negor on Franz
ehrin utrasoe,, Accordin- to a resident who .!.ado a business call here, a divi=-`o herdgr:a.rters is stationed in the :;a~;enn. Soviet soldiers state:! that there reioro
x,,300 to ?x.,003 troops in the ..rim a military _.,o t,, incl iing the division hoa dcci
an(. the town komendatura m -*
25X1 * Co ,enter According to t' e ox?esent and two other sources. Soviet un t:; in
sone o vi on are unid.entified,, are believed to include the Nq th Gds 1)lv in
thy: lh germa, a for_nier barracks installation souti of the -loner Kaserno in the iron:
?:e'iring Strad: e, an unidentified sis al battalion in the -lcnor 1asorne,x also refer'
to as alrtillerio Kasorne, at the intersection of Franz ;..ohring :,tras:so and talin
St:.'a's ;c, an unidentified Penal -unit in the -ilenor I..asor.-ie; the lst Jids Tank .:cgt ?..._
Vr_, bixasebur,; Kaserne on otalirr trap;se; the 133d Ode ,. nfr Bn presursalily in t e
St:^as;sburg l aserne; and the koa :di.atura in fiv. villas on .~talin tetras. L,, corn x .
Friedrich Engels Strasse. Ho,.-.,aver, these units would have an ag rotate nu.nbxr? of 4'
rre 2 at the highest. ;to indications ror ardin ; the or ;sence there of further units,
:in;luding air force units., arc available,
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25X1 *4 0Oo-vv.enta V w unidentified'. signal bat `.alion has probably moved to
'7.te na ?tin a con. And- )ost exercise ret?Zer than to a troo_o trainin ; ~x ounds o
rail shiomonts nor. e ro oortr d' to `:rave : gone from ' uehl1aa anon to 7xri1.:1:a and vice Very,
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CLASSIFICATION Wse
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Class. Changed To: TS S
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Auth,: HR 70.2
Approved For Release 2003/08/15: CIA-RDP82 Rjf67.R 2 2> 2~0 By: