GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002900210002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
!ast Germany
w_r.. REPOR1 I`IO.j
General Military Information
EVALUATION-2ed below
FEAT E OF CON i ENT
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^ 2, At 10:30 : a mid on 5 October, . 8- T-.34/85 t .rks
25X1 B passed thxou a Spreri.i5ea g cma n roll the direction of Nuskaaj taxi
25X1A proceeding toward Cottbus. All tanks appeared to be ~ actory-neb ..2
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1. On 12 October 1953, 17 7--34 tanks, 6 c zavas covered tracks', 2 a~cczLns and i
boxoarloads of as niux44tion boxes and clo hin.g were us3 caaded in Cottbus. Thza
srhipnent had arrived _ from the direction of Frankfurt/Oder and. left toward i.?13
center of the town.
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C ra October, Y sot re * detc -ii:ined ?t t n eat of Rio en, Lied tr io r area nee*
Apollendorf hrac 't : en vacated and 1 at the area cap occupied only by a .a-?~C,
detail of about-60 tr:?ccps. The wiadc`w:s of the insta .13tions were open and t v
billets appeared to be rertdr. otor ~~eiele gas s~ e; in the car _~:r
its arch.. 25X1 B
On 9 October, source 1determiried an A.A Emplacement. with 4 x 85-m -ma AA gun,
about 3000 to r C, me -ex~s north of thy, east end of t h autobahn br.df1e or"
the Elbe ` Riv -r between: Doc>wig and DOsan. A rang f nder grata about 45) r e .#=? 3
from the east end of the bridge. Thy guns ware -Lmn_o ?f:_'ed. Several soL.diP:UII
were seen with the range finder. Other emplacements were seen isOC; to i ~,OC>C' . e,?.
tsars north of this emplacement. 4
25X1 A I
O..Cmm ie~ A tank unit of the 9th Mecz Div Probably returned to the po t
from the Forst Tauer training camp,
2 JB 2 I C;ent. tanks of a mechanized resi ,ent 25X1A
25X1A I I oniilent. Another sot3rce on 29 AnntR'mhnr rrc arnrah1 r ~w~.,A 4-1
ifs
the ;;card detail held _r
to the nth Gds Ta . .v.
25X1A L,., ararlaent. The AAA emwo3aceaner?t, of the 62d IAA Div (US) has been: known.
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