1. SOVIET OFFICERS SCHOOL IN JAUER 2. SOVIET TANK UNIT IN LUEBEN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013000090010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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c?.ATE PREPARED_2uae 1952 .
Soviet Officersi Solvay)), in
10 Prior to J6121Zary 1951!) 5 OVi
B 90) in an old barracks ainst;
town and west of tho rai.3-xanad
school of the Gernan.-Arn.c3, The
the thoroughfare 'Go Ljegmit
kft ellen ore ta 3111
controlled by a comand renoi
from that post?
o fE ce.;7s 6choo1 lIVIE 1 oca 4..7.1 in ,Taui:
11,1i:don situated on the 11101-c hen), per:
Ltion which formerly hi ad an NCI'
LlStallatirm, which was lccAted on
(0 52A3 included
a-16, Lle o,.dnance and ve'n .:le store
in Licgnit,i and frequentl:' inspecte,,
2. a or to October waE com:-:anded by a Sev
replaced by a colonel in A-tal-,o1,-,,,r :125C Accordirr; to the
the traineos., they 1,e..lon ed to -vaariou.s br3nches o.f serval
eficer from Goorlitz (0 52/P )0) an: anohor offioer fr
suction of 7,ast Prufsia, both Imhom wer known to sour
holding ranks from ,:ctrnior lieu'tenant up to major were tr
The cadre porsea cel consfoted air 50 h o 6 L;oviet soldier'
instruction opened on I (.retober? of every year and lasted
3, 71eapcns and equipment obi
12 taril,,.., another he.r.it
threo 76.2 zra icT7,uusa5
small short-bareled guilt
batUry comiander s
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to CW the weapons.,
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:orve(3, tho school incluried fc-
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re s of 100 to 10 mc., an UT
fou-c 120 af7.1n mortars an unidea
000r and r.-17 ria:e finders; ::.tudeb
Lt,, Training emphasized clar.lt:room instruction,. Then workinc,
observed., in one of the ta,,3:011,S,,; lar:!;e6? modern sand
device to mark the bursi-,t. of ..3h5Als y small bulbs,. Trai
mentioned weapons took place, la the 1,arraoks yard. Goraba',
the terrain north of the ?!:.own? Prior to the tertrination
weapcns course was moved to Neu:flamer (0 1;2,,e13 34) for re
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Soviet Mginoor Unit and SuAct Iledquarters in Jauer,,
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The barreck i131ati. n of a ovic t la) tori&ld e;vine r mit ad:pined
the officers, school to the woot? The Ixnrracks install:. whir. 4 was
bounded by thQ rajaros line to Liw.:nitlif in the northr9 icludod iDur red
billets one Lf.taen cic mctor?vehicie and ordnance s -p.:.alsouso aid
aaother
6. The unit l'ias comandeC uy a ,doviet colonel. The size of die unit ::as
estimated at 400 nen, ,em 3:';0 to Sj roeruits arrived f i the fa21 of
ave7y year. e se Idior5 wol.e eoaules nouatin a neta] levies
con5istini*; of crosned niokals anel a pair of dividerb,,
k
romall arms -were the ?nil ea ons obnorvod with the uni,T1i0 engiaeer
oquipmant aonssted of orid?buildag equipmeat includi 16 spec.,ial,,type
tri.nks with ponteens? T!isido, an midelAified number cf a eoats was
obsorved? atcr or:let-leas Were held aorthvest of the -tri on the -'inetends
Neir3so Aj.ver? eco di to sCidier... pTatdces were else hr,qd
on o.he Oder Aiver,
8,-, The Soviet koznndature 271s iccted j,.n a former hotel o: Ate market, place;
a ;,:ioviet 9pte1fl wls in eharie of the irstallatioa. An 1:710 agency was
located about )40) ileter non ii of t a officers, school OA the nes ii side of
the road. to Liogaitz,
Polish Officer in Jane::'
The Polish. militia .disty.ict cffine asIccted in the eiatern secor,of the
town on the north oiee of thr tharavgbfarc to Arlegau 51/N 09), ?Tbc;
offce of th4 .to-on iallmsaocated. fA, tha townhM on the nor 't p1 ce
The Security Police (1.30 district office was located, inThe same 'ouildinf?;
an the mdlitia office
Savict Yank Unit in. Luban,
.1:II,. Prior to December the large inrracks installation ocated ow the
1.orthern perimeter of ;ab c.12 (G 52A, 84'j was oocupioq calacity by a
tank unit,. 7sleavyi i;a:aks and rotor vehicles werd c a si. ortaTLi observed.
. -near the installation, was commoa, knewledae among the population of the
town that the unit is ulardinate to a headounrters in Lia:Titz ,
to late 1950,, the former district insane hosnital locited nol-thuast. of
the town was also occ)o7,,ed. 'ay soldiars,?, Llotor -veTh ales were froquentl,I
obsorved in the br.r.,let ara, Source know from. hearsay that, anV:1, azency
-4as located hero c.
6.1 Offices in Lueber;?..
12, he Polish militia .d.iset Offie -,las lose te,3 in the ,:JC. t(Ialhal: on the
:.;outh sida of the 1.ana, The 3ecurity Police COT) dintrict office wa 3
located on a side atrea. due 3a st of the milroad statia.
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CONFIDATIAT)
13,, Another wom,,an resettler5, nzd noticodl, in early
Soviet soldfters in Lnebea, bsIied thflt viot roops woL-
locatf0 1n the torn in Iexuary 1951, -;)ource also knew tL
3oviet nor Polish troops ::ere ..tioned at Haynau (0 52/Y
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Commell-L Accordin o pn-Ivous .,.'e2ots, only one
-cat3d in j'auer in Larcackt i:istaL.ation oa the east
.f.-Are,A0 It is vu at -,.-Jnet'ner this unit is identicaJ!
writs mentioned in th.e pr.:eent roport, officersschii
lied by the NG:'?*
Comaentt The unitJc; 'oelle'rod be all amiy ea:.;inenr
control ad by Vie VU?,, cy.17,:nae.3r anis i iniaohaped
nc,d pre43enl, ;Ire 1L-lo-n,
Corl:leat? This is V iit report to ;z:ntaem a ri1'
Ci Lt.abeni)hou-1.1 seurce tc.;? :',ont!-- be (..:onfircteA,, the
tanic re4_i(:4:nt directly tc t e7:13F,
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