GENERAL INFORMATION FROM EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100840004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. At about 10 ann. an 30 March p 4 T-34/85 tanks I a?
gun which appeared to have been a JSU-122? 1 JS tanikp 2 boxelarloads of 25X1
ammunition and about 30 soldiers were loaded in Wittenberg,. The ammunition had been
hauled to the station from the Beaeler Xaserne on tracks I 1
2. On 13 March a train of 2 boxcars and 4 flatcars with sideracks carrying 2 T-34/85
tanks p SP gun SII-259 and 1 SU-152 passed through the Wittenberg railroad
station toward Dessau.e At about 4 a.m. on 15 Marghp a train of 3 boxcars and 8
flatcars with sideracke with tanks was unloaded.? At about 10 a.m. on 25 March, a
train from the direction of Kirchmoeser stopped at the Wittenberg railroad stationp
unloaded 6 JS-3 tanks and proceeded toward an undetermined direction On 30 Marohp
4 T-34/85 tanks 2 St1-249 SP guns and truck /1 were loads+,
at the Wittenb rg railroad atation. The majority of the troops wore at the post.'
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3. At about 6 p.m. on 26 March, 20 artillery pieces of about 220 mmp 20 prime movers p 25
to 30 trucksp 1 field kitchen and EM were loaded onto an undetermined number of
flatcars and about 15 boxers respective4,
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At about 9 aam. on 26 March, about 400 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with
artillery insignia, 16 prime movers including 8 towing 122-mi field howitzers, 16
trucks with trailers and amuunitiono 16 personnel carriers, 1 ambolancep and 1 sedan
were unloaded in Geraa I
. The troops moved to the Reuss Xaserne upon unloading. At about 11 a.m. on 26 Marcia,
about 400 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia, 12 prima
movers towing 8x75-mm. AT guns and 4x100-esa AT guns, 10 prime movers including 4
with trailers carrying ammunition, 22 trucks land 1 sedan were
unloaded in Gera. The troops left for the Reuss eaaerne.e 25X1B 25X1
5. At about 7 p.m. on 27 March, T-34/85 tanks and trackel
land a carload of boxes were loaded in Weisswasser for shipment toward
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Arty Brig (US) of the XXVIII Gds Zits Rifle Corps which presumably came from, or
went to, the OHRDRUF troop training grounds for combat firing.
25X1A 6. LISAlaaniu. The tanks possibly belong to the 91st Tank Regt of the 9t225X1A
Mecz Div from Luebben. Another source observed intensive training activity by
the 9th Mecz Div at Weisswasser from 10 to 26 March. See
25X1A 7.I LAMM& Another report by another source indicated that this train
carried units of the 64th Gds Hv Tank SP Regt of the 8th Gds Mecz Div to
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Magog& Another. report of source of paragraph 1 indicated that, 01225X1A
13 March, elements of the 78th Gds Hv Tank SP Ragt were loaded in Wittenberg
and that the materiel loaded included SP gun p I, It
? is believed that this train, too, went to Werder?markendorf rather than Dessau.
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3. I L.Q. *Ix This train is believed to have also came from Werder?Markendorf.
4. =pasiastakt, Presumably, replacement tanks from the tank repair shop of the
GOFG in Kirchmoeser.
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