GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900780002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE PREPARED 13 March 1953
can 8 February 1953, a .column of 1 jeep and 21 trucks., each
occupied y a ut 20 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets; and
including 3 trucks tours a 76.2-gem AT gun each was seen on the , o?' n-
ber --Cottbus road
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and 15 truckN each towing a 160--mm mortar..
2. in mid-February, all unito stationed in Naumbur g,
except for the engineer units, were in the Lossa are3ao On 9 Februa_k y,
120 to 150 trucks with covered numbers were seen on route on the bridge
across the Saale River in Naumburg, proceeding toward Freiburg. During
the night of 12 February, 12 'S-3 tanksF_ passed
through Naumburg toward Freiburg, n .. . e rurary, several
columns passed through Naumburg, proceeding toward Weissenfels. Tan tiu eks
towing AA guns left the Bismarck Kaserne, 0 - _ s
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Luettich Kaserne and the Hubertus Kaserne. On 18 February, 20 trucks
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on 14 February, a troop train consisting of 9 boxcars,
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each occur ed by about 30 soldiers; and an undetermined number of
flatcars carrying 8 trucks towing 120.-mm mortars; and 6 T-34 tanks
passed through Oberbof toward Meiningeno3
I I on 15 February, troops and materiel re..
urn n to the auen z.en aserne in Wittenberg included: T-34/85
tanks 1 x 85-mi AT gun., 1. amphibious vehicle with.-
and an undetermined number of motor vehicles including
radio trucks and tank t rucks;
and 9occueya'otal
of about 180 soldiers who wore
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red-bordered black epaulets on 17 Febniir'y, armored
scout cars F_ I and motor vehicles
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by about 220 soldiers., wearing red-bordered black epaulets; and
carrying billeting. equipment, gasoline barrels and food stuff,
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let the Installation, proceeding toward Berlin.4
5. On 16 Februarys about 300 trucks were seen at the barracks came and/
or tent camp in the 3ilosterhols (woods) south of Grimma, between
K1o:sternimbschen and the Grimmer-Grossbothen railroad line. Numerous
soldiers wearing r ed-bordered black epaulets and brassards patrolled
,,b,) edge of the woods. Soldiers wore red-bordered black epaulets,
including some with motor transport insignia; and black-bordered.
black epaulets, Source did not observe tank nr rn finery units,
Overhead lines
measuring l,,. %,/+ meters, were equipped with stoves, about 1 meter
hi . Troops and materiel seen en route from the barracks installations
in Grimna to the Klosterholz on 15 February included: 2 jeeps and
cupied b,-:? each about 20 soldiers with cable-poles, at
a tank
occupiod by personnel and caring blankets, food s-4 , sections
of Prefabricated houses, stoves and stove ipes and field kitchen
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ti.nualldr s u , e between r mma and the Klosterholz.
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occupied by about 1,300 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets
with tank insignia, On 15 February, 50 soldiers wearing red-bordered
black e paulets and equipped with a JSU-11 gun E:::~ nraetiand Una
penetration of a position.
6, a ary, the Koenig Georg Kaserne in Dresden was
7. From 15 to 20 February, the Wilder Ilann Kaserne was occupied by
about 150 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets with tank
insignia, Four sidecar motorcycles were seen at driving practice at
the Holler training area on 18 February, and 24 motorcycles occupied
by each 2soldiers who w ore red-bordered black epaulets were in the
installation on 19 February. on 19 February, 16 trucks
towing heavy AA guns and occupied each 20 soldiers wearing red-
bordered black epaulets were seen on the' MM sstmn.n,Rssdnhn,..g road,
Asa On lb Februarys T-34 tanks T-34/85 tanks
and 140 soldiers wearing re - rdered black epaulets with
tank insignia .were seen in Camp Nochten, on 19 February,
80 soldiers wearing,red-bordered black epaulets a carrying full
field pack arrived at the Ueisswasser railroad stations coming, from
tha :lrection of Cottbus. The unit left for Camp Nochten.
100 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets, carrying
aggage and armed with carbines, left aboard a trait: toward Cottbus.
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and 2 sidecar motorcycles, armored t cars
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MIA Imanta I on 12 and 13 February, reported
large movements in the Cat bus Welzow area of units stationed in
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February also belonged to the 9th Mecz Div. The division probably
held exercises in to area southwest of Cottbus in the first half
of February, as was observed at the same time with other units in
East Germany.
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on large troops movements from 21 to 18 February in Thuringia. See
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that the units ' of the 57th Gds Fitz Rifle Div stationed in Naumburg ? .
were assembled in the Lossa area prior to 12 February and that in
addition to the shipments of elements of the division from the Lossa
area to the Zeitz-Gera area between 12 and 14 February, other units
moved to the Zeitz-.Gera area by road. This possibility had previously
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carried elements of the 117th Gd
Mtz Rifle Div, which went from tSe
advanced combat practice firing.
y definitely believed to have
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iningen to Ohrdruf for a 2-day
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. The columns observed on the two days belonged to the
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Kaserne, Wittenberg. The elements which left the installation on
17 February, possibly left for several tys, as the trucks carried
billeting equinment0
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The troops observed presuam