GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EASTERN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014500070010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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,. At 6-430 a.m.-on 2- August 1t--34 tanks 5 JSU 122-mm guns
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I and 7 boxcars with troops were loaded at the Dall-
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:ow ?Doeberitz (N 53 Z 65) railroad station. The wooden shed for vehicles in Neues
:aj er north Of Highway No 103 was empty.. The concrete shelters were occupied by
about 25 T-3b tanks and 4 JSU 122..,E guns. (1)
25X1 I I _ After 15 August, an advance party of Unit Lieutenant Colonel Knotykov (fnu) wearing
:,sec'-bordered 'black epaulets with artillery insignia was observed in the quarters
o.ff'unit Khiopov (fnu) in the Olympisches Dorf, 2 km west of Doeberitz-.~,ltes Lagers.
i"he ac'vance party, which apparently had comm from the area of Orani.enburg (N 53/2 67 was still quartered there on 6 September. (2)
25X1 L_J3. On 6 September, thn barracks installation on Seehurgerstr asto in Gross Glienicke
('N7 53/?, 64) was occupied by Va sn ei wzrent for one builds that quartered
the Soviet "order Guard Unit
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25X1 "1.. in early September, source learned that, in '\.uFiust, the electricity consu"7`ption25X1
of all t:nit3 quartered in the Flu rlatz. Kaserne, Schoenwalde (N 53/Z 66), had
25X1 decreased b 2.0 percent over the preceding months. A colonel of an AAA unit using
~:edan rras identified as commanding officer of the installation. II W
25X1 05.' On 28 Auf-ust, the Panzer. Kaserne: On Seeburgerstrasse in Gross Glienicke was occur. ied
by Volkspolizei. No Soviet troops were observed there. (3)
25X1 06. During the period from 23 to 29 August, the cantonment in the restricted area of
25X1 Berl in--Karlshorst was occupied b: about 2,000 troops who wore black bordered
crimson epaulets. No training activity
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7. A foreman at .he -'.'ittstock (N 54/U_;l.L) troop training grounds stated in early
September that the exercise of the troops quartered at the training grounds would
allegedly be completed in ab c. tt 3 to L weeks. The informant also stated that the
units were to return to their posts 3 to 4 weeks earlier than during the preceding
..years. (5)
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25X1 the unit loaded probably belongs to the lst
v., is atisumed that a enn s were transferred to the Ieustrelttz area for
. ? ping p ur-cses a
2) These ob:,eruativns confirm reports by other sources on the arrival of an advance
25X1 p.pa.rty 'in Okprspisched ltorfr this advance party
is believed to be?onr to the 2d Light Arty Brig (US) which was stationed in the
:'.eisse gtadt in 0ranienburg. Lieutenant Colonel Knotykov (fnu) is probably identi"
cal with Lieutenant Colonel Knoehkov (fnu), reportedly regimental commander of one
of the ieFgiments of this brigade:: Unit Khlopov is the 11th Gds AT Arty Brig of the
Fourth Gds ecz Army. Rear units followed the bulk of the unit to the Templin troop
training grounds in early August o
25X1 ( ) The barracks installation in Gross Glienicke quarters a Grenzp olizeibereitschaft
of the Ring-cm.-Berlin and Soviet Border Guard Unit which is allegedly
subordinate to the SCC,
(.) The decrease in the consumption of electric current presurrnbly resulted from the
absence of eel.ements. of the ?1st AAA Div and of the 90th RL Reg t (US) stationed there-
(5) fl report from. Crary ienburg also indicated that. the troops were expected to return
in Se-otemi.. er r
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