MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EBERSWALDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013600220007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONTENT
18 April to 2h June 1952
DATE OF
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On 24 June 1952; the Schuotzen Kaserne in Lbersoaldo (N 53/V 00) quartered 703 to.
800 troops who wore rod-bordered black epaulets with artillery; si7nal and ma'oor
transport insignia. -A column of 18 model 1:!-13 rocket launchers; 20 trucks and
radio truck left the installation toward Finow at al:out 4 pri. on
14 June.
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20 officers and 301) troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets with artillery
insignia; steel helmets and carried folded blaakets and rifles. The column
returned to the installation at about 9 a.m. on 18 June. On 13 Juno at 11:30 am"
3 officers and 40 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaolots with artillery
insignia stood on the market square enc,azed in a mao-reading exercise and terrain
orientation with the help of prismatic compasses. At about 4:30 p.m.; about 60.
soldiers cleaned 12 x 120-mm mortars in the billetinc area. On 23 Jun at about
2 p.m.; about 50 soldiers practiced aimin7, with four rocket launchers in the
barraclos yard. On 24 June; an officers 1 neotinq was hold in the offAcorsi club near
the Schuetzen Kaserne. The followin: meter vehicles wore parked in -2,ront of tho club'
betweon 10 and 11:30 a.m.:
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Motor vehicles observed in traffic to, and from, the bermcks installat:1
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2, On 24 Juno, the western section of the tttillerio 1:aserne Les occupied
250 troops who wore red-"bordered black epaulets with artil'ory and :I.o'Gor tram port
insignia, On 20 Juno, about 150 soldiers with rifles marched out of the
installation to the target range on Tracloor Chaussoo ht 76.2-ma field
were towed into no installation by about 70 soldiers at :lieu+ 1 , ,I. on 211
June rotor vehicles
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barracks installation, On 19 Juno, the eastern section of l'no Artillerie
Kaserne quartered a rear unit of about 250 soldis who worere:,-bordei-ed
bllck apaulets with tank ilsirmia,' .',bout 150 soldiers wore at drill with rtflcs
near the installation at about 11 a.m. on 17 June. 25X1
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At about 9 an on 17 June, about 40 soldiers werin-; rod-bordered bl,ck epaulets
with artillery insi7nia and gas masks and 24 soldiers with aiming circles and
field glasses marched free the Maerkische Elektrizitaetsmrk to the AA gun
om)lacement in forest section No 19, Night ainirw: practice at jot planes
approaching the AA emplacement in the beam of a ,sear&Iii:Jit were repeatedly
observed, At about 2 a.m. on 13 June the troops were relieved in a total black-
out. Motor vehicles seen goilm to, and opining from? the as%trizitaetswerk
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40 On 21 June, the supply depot on hupferhammermef! recFived 2 :Aosxcare from the
Kr:letsch firm in 7.1irzen consigned to Unit 1;170 9 TY'rir r'c flr.rorn + le srt4.,, 25X1
refinery in Halle? Trucks
I 'made supplj triia. LT, acout y a.m. on 22 June, lo new, pneumatic-tired
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field kitchens on flatcars were shunted into thp riontvE On 24 Juno, trucks
picked up ration sMptiT0
50 At about 11 a,m, on 21 Juno, the following trucks were parked in front of the
army hospital on Oderbergor Straso:
They subsequently drove off with hnnan,yr,
, Every second day, 2 refrigerator corr with neat for Unit Davidov arrived
Eberawaide railroad station where the meat was unleaded onto truck
It was dispatched. by Soviet Arnv- '7'orplin,and consigned to Unit
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amunition from 6 bozcars and left toward Bernauor Neer , A 4
about 160 technical sergeants and NCOs wearing red-bordered black ,epaulets with
artillery, Signa ns
l and. motor trapi)rt insignia arrived on ttlo regular passenger
train from the direction of Templinc-Upaa assembling and being processed in the
Maorkische Elektrizitaetswerk, thez7 marched to the barracks installations in
individual groups. They left aain at 3;30 p.m, on 26 June.
7. Remittances made to the German bank incl).2ded:
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'0 On 19 Junes the [;chuetzen Kaserne occupied abotee, 50 percent by troops wo wore
red-bordered black epaulets with ar.tirlory insiglia and bla
epaulats -ivith signal insignia:, A cairrar.1--cairered- rocket 'launcher :3tood in the
barracks :yard? About, 30 soldiers strong a telephone line on !';'ramper Chnussee
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by soldiers with red--b3rdered black epaulets with rz:to., transT)ort,
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Tho cantonment on Breitscheid 3tranF 'till occupied by a sina1 unit or 39
June? Trucks I enc.% carrying 10 soldie7r with bla.,k-hordu; ei
black epaulets, signal insignia and te2ephone equipment 7.oft 1-11e bilUiti_11'!
Comientsa
the Jellnetzen Kaserne is partly occunied by. the DO
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elements of the units absent from tho installation ray be -carred at various
troop training grounds in the Soviet Zone of Germany., Units of the 3121 h ads RI,
Ret of the for mentionod :71rmy wore in firing pr8ctico at Lieberose
from 14 to la June 1952,,I ato mortar:5 oerved ln the
installation possibly bo ong to the 57th (?) 3trIX Regt of th Fourth Gds. Tricez
Army. Althowh no exact recorcls on the organization of the mziment are availabia,,
the regiment is believed. be the only unit the Schuetzen -i'Caserne that couls4
be equip2sA with mortars, L'ame SOtrree re'3orted. 20 X 160? to haiAi; betV1
the instarlation in narch 1952. J.17,)-Re.71,-..r,? the En1119 170170
believed -b.-) have hod a caliber or 120-nvr 82-ma rather th4n
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(2) Confirms previous information on rear units Of elements of the 6th Gds u.ecz
Div in th:! Artillerie Kaserneo
(3) Source referred to the AA mn en-lacement at 7iestondschu1e., south of
Schtlstrasseo
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(5) The cantonment was last occupied to capacity at the beginling of I'ay 3.952,
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definitelvdeterminedo It belongs to the (Y.,F:t or to the Fourth Gds I:ecz Alm7y0
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