MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BAD KOESEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013400080005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC ~_ i ilitrxr Info rrlG ;io11 from Soeserl
" ~.. ., ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE)
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I. On 1 I June 19529 the i3ad Ke=a `n 52/J '8) training area ti zas occupied
by i estirrtatcd 500 to 1.,000 so1ciors i:cicaria'et; black-bordered black
epau .its, blue-bordered bi ck epc::ulets i red-?bordored black epnulr ~.s
.:n e ! tisr=ete d 2,UUU to 2,50C:, soldiers had left t e area on 2 Jwie Y'hiie
'ilmv It ea the officers I I a:care en&ix 'er i;ioi_t,rlirt,a t ice . troops
w%,or~~c : ed--bordfeYred black opLu1 uts arid sinn:11 Im aber of soldiers YL tank
iasi 11 a and motor tYd a,-,.: poJ t il~1.~,.1;nla O
2 On 6 Jn4e.9 the hood camp n ar f s:oo en ?-as less heavily occupied than
on 2 4 s."war 4 about 200 soldiers were still them, o
mote : vehicles were noticed in th_i entire tr.ndning area Q The soldiers were
core merit the engineer battalions of the
'Ugy' i^~Lls R,vrcy which f-,d moved b. gixlnin 2 acne to U of >ss~il~ 3uhse-
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Otlae ruts have me,3ta',t11 e con -irme that the 19th Indep 13m,
r 113ra of the
;i f a (3d.9 zri and- the 67th ;`ht r fin (U:) of the 57th Gd Utz Lifie Div
rett ned from flesi.;`.iu to Bad Coesori on 21. and 22 Jtule. They probably had left
1arl rear deus,chmonts c^ itt recruits in 7i .td Koesen. ;.n infantry officers'
sch-)'9 of the Volkspolize1 is in 1aur1bu; G
CLASSIFICATION
seer r!agoc: in athletics rand cuLtin
naI 0j (IT'') received infantry tr,:ini
nor: It of the wood cr uap.
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timber.
f a- ith
Between 350 ,and 400 olks.
carbines in the training area
tetey crone .Vrwu
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