SOVIET OB SUMMARY 31 MAY 1952

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012300210008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SU.B~E~'!'"' ?Sav~:e~? Sumsr~,ry 31 May 1952
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TN 15 OOCUNENT CONTAINS'1.NFORMATION AFFECTf NG THE Y'ATIONAt DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN-TNE #fEAfl T11G OF TITLE 18j SECTIONS 793
AND 7q4,. OF TNE V.5. CODE, AS ANENDED~. 1T5 TRANSNISS I6N OR REVE-
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. ~ oa e ary equipment., dispatched frcam ~E~he Griebnit~s~e,
:W~:1c`ipa:K'~ and ~'otsdam railroad. stations to Wuensdorf acid Zo~sexz.;,, Erne train
with vehicle spare parts and one troop train from Wuensdorf to Patsdam~and.
Wildpark; one troop train from Wuensdorf' to Gardelegen. 25X1
30 to 60 boxcars have recently been dispatched daily from. thy: f~~^iernitas!e~e.-
railroad station to Wuensdorf. -
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o cers t the headquarters of the GOFG would move to an urndetermined
..location in-one or two days. The headquarters personnel had been ordered
to be ready for the- evacuation.
Urn 27 Maya ~+5 boxcars were loaded at the Wildpark railroad-station with
billeting equipment from the Kriegsschule in Potsdam.. Another train was
loaded. on 28 May. During the period from 25 through ~"7 May, four vehicular
convoys t~f the 56th Motor Transport Regiment of the GOFOy loaded with
bil~etng equipments arrived in. Potsdam every morning. Whey came from, the
direction of Lange Bruecke and proceeded to the. barracks in~t$3.latiesn~, in
Wildpark-West:
.yz~ seven 7.62 cm A.A guns-.were- observed on Doeberitz airi'ield.-
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e :'nfarmation On the basi.a o~ alI ~;x~farmation
presently available, the following conclusions on the troop movements south
acid west of BE'rlin can be' assumed with a fair degree of certain,tyt The
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headguarters of the G(7~'G is moving -from ~abelsberg to Wuensdorf . Tt is not
clear whethsr all sections of the headquartersr particularly the ~Zesdquarters
ofthe chief of rear services in the Adolf Aitler Kaserne, will be affected
;by.ths move:. "The headq,uartersr headquarters' units and. the signal elements
of the 3rd. Guards Mechanised Arai~y~ will remain in Wuensds~rf . The offfio~rs ~
25X1 C courses of the GOFG -will .move frt~m the Hindenburg Kaaerne i,n
Wuensdprf to the Bornstedt Kriegschule in Potsdam. ~'he 56th Motor Transport
Regiment of the GOFG is mdving from thc~ Cambrai Ka.serne in WuensdArf to the
berserks installation in Wildpsrk-West.. ElQments of the 62nd: AAA Division
lrrcated in the Lutz Kaserney are moving possibly only temporarily, to the
C~ardelegen areas giving. them the opportunity to use Letzling Heath for summer
training. -There i s no doubt that Soviet troops, ar~d headquarters e'~iu~Yi aiici'
tweet of aerlin have beef decentralized since mid-May. It'remains to be
seen whetheir these msasures are .designed to provide billeting space for the
~~~"'VolkspoYizei.
Comments On 2 May, medium AA gurxs3 probably of the 31st AAA Division:]
were observed for-the first time on Doeberitz airfield. Tho information
pn'the presence of heavy AA guns is new. Shipments of heavy and medium AA
guns to Covet occupied airfields, which started in mid-April, are continuing.
TJp to the. pre-sent, AA guns have been observed on nine fie~.d:s . the airfields
oc?cupied by bomber units sau:theast of Berlin were the first installations
provided with AA guns. These were followed by Laerz, Koethen anti Doeberitz.
A device believed to have been an anti-aircraft d.ire.ctor was observed with
a 137 mm AA battery. AA directors- were not previously seen in the Soviet
Zone of Germany. If, as expected, directors become standard equipment of
medium AA units, their fire power will be considerably increased.. It is
believed that orders have been given to have AA guns emplaced at all air-
fields in the Zone. This measure, in itself not unusual, deserves special
attention as it coincides with a period of East-Wes.t tension.
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