SOVIET TROOPS IN AUSTRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012900230010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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L On 1.6 Lay ).952, the. fol1 owi ng vehicles -. rer se :n driving to, and comic f 'omn,
the former T'undesgewerbeschule in "loedl_.=.nr; (0 49/X 3?) : soc:an arid
jeep bath driven b ,-,r soldiery with re bordered. black epaulets;
sedans a:ad and tr,ac all, clr. - van by soldiers wit 'i
red--cornered black epaulets; jeep and truer, both driven b.-
soldiers with red- bordered :laclr epaule'.;s; jeep c:riv~ jy a so:i;ier
with red-bordered black epaulets; jeep
trucks and .e81
driven by soldier., wit'hi re,'-bordored b-?_ ,.ck epau? ets
soldier with black bordered black; opaus_ is a truck
driven by soldier:; with black -bordered glue epaulets;
oldiers with black-bordered
Th:',ee radio trucks and a cloced trailer stood
in the yard of the Iiyrtl Grphana ge whi.r ". was guarded by a se?itry with red-bordered
blacsc epaulets. Tracks a.11 occupied by 50X1-HUM
soldiers }V1th red-bordered black epaulets, wei?a parked in front of the ins'.:.allr,tion.
Twenty-four soldiers wearing black-boreire . black epaulet r-pled hoavyy- field
cables rear the orphana ;;ee Armored sco . , cars and trucks were on blocks in the
sheds of the former auto and air plane ::ngine factory on iabcieler 1ltrassen
Trucks driven by a soldier vv :th red-bordered blact epaulets, and.50X1-HUM
stood in the yTard, *
Kaisersteiri hruch,
20 Ci 15 ;:;ray, 12 trucks, eac!a :.irryin; an . gun i,,vit a a flash hider and 26 other
trucks ,per.) parked in the ca:Ztonme_it oK:..}t of, Ka:isorsteinl,ruc;i (P 43/X 67)Q [boo-t
60 soldiers were engaged in fatigue dut: es, Forty soldiers v ,3arin rod-bordered,
black epaulets and carrying field esqui -.ant arched into the cantonment from the
direction of Sommaroin (P a/X 67),, lac: by two ca?tai?3s who wore red-bordered
black epaulets with article:?;T insignia '.rotor va.'ai.cles o sewed at t'YO canton ant
included. jeep rsd trucks
all, driven b glaciers r~r th red-L~or{lered black epau e to q
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blue epaulets;
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