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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012600350005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF. CONTE
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LDATE PREPARED
On 2 ,lay i952, a sentry woarirZ red-bcrdered Wick epaulets - .th tank insignia
and about u0 soldiers., who were di iiirt; with carbines, were seen in he Alte
Infanterie Kaserno, ors August 3,ebe] :;trasse, Tur 53/Y 8l), 11o other acti-,
=fitic;s were noticed in the billat':za s area. Fourteen to 16 tanks covered orig.
canvas were in an open shod of the tanks N ere provided with riuzz Le
brakes. About 20 trucks were par':ed in trio other open. sheds.
the ma jorit.f of the troops r-ar. ained in their quarters and that only a
few tanks had been entrained.
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On 2 the : euc I.nfaa:itorie 1'aas.:,Yrr_e on Zerb tar Straaso, quartered about
300 troops who wore red-bordered blade epaulets ::ith artillery iris i;rzia0 1`0
activity was noticed. About 200 troops wore seen in the adjacent training;
area en ? r ed in field, . t:reini i A with snail arm and ; iier -shoctir r.ac ti tie with
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_c mj ori.t y of the
arfiiLiLc y troops .fro..: there s;ere at A tenon?aboi. ?" 3/Z O0)W
identified botaeon the- barracks installation and Altenr,rabo7
On 7 the Alte Irfanterie Kaserne on August :c'al Strasse was occupied by a
aeavy rear unit of about 50 officers and 300 soldiers who wore red -bordered black
epaulets, rios;tl.,r with tank insignia . con; wore artillery insignia. One lieute-
cant colonel tart. insignia was the rankinu: officer A ca r s-covered Ta-3.&
tank stood in -16-1 e barracks `rand, "rocks were swan 50X1-HUM
icavtn the instAlation toward the Kraehonher,-e: training area and rettariiixi,7 to
the ii:st lation
On 7 -say, the 'eue Inf anterie Kaserrie on Zerbster Strassso was occupied by troops
who wore red-bordered black epaulets with arti.lieryr insignia. Almost all.
quarters v cre lighted after dusk. About 30 soldiers wearing red--bordered. black
epaulets w-? tea artillery insignia en ,a.,;od in fs:ti j_te duty and another .30 soldiers
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drilled to .fem ination in the barracks yard.,
insignia was the ranking offices
Gomnent. an SP gu battalion
t he 'ZMh Eras llv T k SP flea of -tie std s~k Arr. r can. still be
carried is the Alt e In.Lanterie Kasera after 21 ,pril 1952. P.'ost of V-10
m its of the regiment noved to the Letzl_ing r oath during the second half 50X1-HUM
of April 1952, taking along a total of 30 JSU 213 gun and 1C J-3 tanks.
,omnen The information
e eue , Knto le Kacerne does not concur,
changes re arding the occupation. havD occux,red,
it is pos ible that elerionts of the ar?tille j unit 50X1-HUM
Carr =cu ore, presumably of the Third Shock Air ' or of the T XIX I?tz Riiie
Corps r possibly of the unidentified AM Fwo 't of the cores are absent 50X1-HUM
from the post for practices. 50X1-HUM
It is known from proFrious in. "orma.,ion that components ?f the )44til 0?) 1 F
Arty Brig are permanently stationer. at Al.tent rabowa
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