MILITARY UNIT DEPARTURE ASMARA, ETHIOPIA (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90T00784R000100150009-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 7, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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MILITARY UNIT DEPARTURE
ASMARA, ETHIOPIA
NPIC/IEG (12/82)
7 DECEMBER 1982
1. (SWN) SIGNTFICA"N CE: A PROBABLE ETHIOPIAN INFANTRY
BATTALION WAS LEAVING BY COf1VOY FROM ASMARA BIVOUAC AREA
WEST, POSSIBLY ENROUTE TO TIGRAY PROVINCE.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: TWO CONVOYS TOTALING 32 TRUCKS AND 17
TRAILERS, CARRYING A PROBABLE ETHIOPIAN INFANTRY BATTALION,
WERE LEAVING ASMARA HEADING SOUTH ON A ROAD 25X1
WHICH LEADS INTO TIGRAY PROVINCE. ONE CONVOY OF 17 TRUCKS
AND TWO TRAILERS WAS ON A ROAD AD3ACENT TO ASP~4ARA BIVOUAC
AREA WEST WHERE A PROBABLE ETHIOPIAN INFANTRY BATTALION 49AS
IS ENCAMPMENT WAS HERE 25X1
AND CONSISTED OF APPROXIMATELY 25X1
150 T~VO-MAN TENTS AND 12 A4EDIUNI-SIZED TENTS. THIS CONVOY
WAS HEADING EAST TOPJARD A CONNECTING ROAD WHERE A SECOND
CONVOY (NOT ON GRAPHIC) OF 15 TRUCKS AND 15 TRAILERS WAS ON
THE ROAD HEADING SOUTH. TI-IIS ROAD GOES SOUTH FROb4 ASMARA
INTO TIGRAY PROVINCE WHERE ETHIOPIAN FORCES HAVE BEEN
FIGHTING 'f HE TPLF (TIGRAY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT). THE
GROUND ORDER OF BATTLE REMAINING AT ASMARA BIVOUAC AREA
VJEST INCLUDES TWO TANK COMPANIES, ONE MECHANIZED INFANTRY
COMPANY (BTR-60 APC-EQUIPPED), TWO SIX-GUN ANTIAIRCRAFT
ARTILLERY BATTERIES, AND TWO FIELD AkTILLERY BATTERIES (ONE
FIVE-GUN AND ONE FOUR-GUN BATTERY). 25X1
3. (S)
COORDINATES 15-17-02N 038-58-09E
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