SOVIET OB SUMMARY 19 MAY 1952

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012200050002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone) DO NOT CIRCULATEDATE DISTR. 20 May 1952
SUBJECT Soviet OB Summary 19 May 1952 NO. OF PAGES 1
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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1. Five trains with T 31+ tanks and three trains with equipment and construction
material were unloaded at Rostock on 8-9 May and 12 May respectively. The
guns and material moved to the Puetlitz Kaserne on Memelerstrasse. An estimated
15,000 men are stationed in Rostock and 4,000 men are quartered in the barracks
installations at Markgrafenheide airfield near Warnemuende.*
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unloading operations have
been underway since early May in S ra sun rr or and that rail shipments
have moved to Ruegen Island. Houses in Bergen and Sassnitz have been vacated
by civilians in order to provide quarters for 3,000 soldiers each. The road
from Karow to Prora via Binz was blocked by truck convoys on 9 May. The
troops arriving in trucks were billeted in Bergen and Sassnitz and in a
tent camp in Prora.
II Comment: This partly confirms another observation of the detraining
of units of the artillery brigade of the 79th Rifle Corps from Altengrabow.
The tank shipments are unexplained. The number of troops
Comment: The alleged unloading operations in Stralsund harbor are
connected with similar unloadings effected in Rostock harbor at the same
time. Observations of the troop movements between Jueterbog and Ruegen
took place between 8 and 12 May.
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Class. Changed To: TS S C
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