GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400770008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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General Military Information
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DATE OF CONTENT
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than Q, infantry,, tank, artillery and er iriee troops were quartered
in the barracks installation at the end of- March F One Colonel Urbanov
(f nu) who; arrived at Iiagenow two months ago wa,
allegedly in comrnRd
and a -club were constructed on the premises--of the former Daimlei Plant in
Juensdorf-Zossen. Construction work was started on A.
April 1953 and is
f f completion by 1 October 1953e At, present, about 40C wor'kers,.. , , ;
were employed at the building site. Their nurber..>was - to ..be brought up,,.
to-800, 2
-15 threte- .tQ'y,
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3. Eetween`16 and 2J4 April, the troops of Rathenow= r.?ost were transferred
to'Altengratow? The guns -,-ere loaded ' at Rathenow-Nord rail mAd
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A mer orial or Stalin: was attended by-,
,The following columns passed the road bridge in lagdeburg and proceeded
to 9.'0 .&; .w stj3 Iy directionQ
8 om on Air l; 6 BA-64 ar :ored' Scout -cars and 2; trucks.
At e . ~1 ? I sedan and 44 motorcycles a
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s too a e to ensee railroad station, headed north,
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a. After 26 April, the unit wearing black-bordered black epaulets and
black-bordered crimson epaulets started vacating the barracks installation
in Potsdam-Galin. The unit was entrained at `-!ildpark station. 5
- On 30 April, the 100 AT artillery unit from the former Ileeresbekleidungs-
lager I, Fernau, too was transferred.
At 10 a.m. on 1 a a train with 8 T-3 85 tanks
8 boxcars and 1 sedan was seen at the Brandenburg railroad station.
6.
Comment The report tends to indicate that, until end of M rch,
the 283d Gds 111z Rif le Pegt and the 107th ads En En of the 94th ads
z _ e v were at Ila;enow airfield-
Cor,MOnt
The Dairler Plant is unknown.
Gammoxz a transfers to Altengrabow
;of-units of the 65th Mort Brig e 18th How Art; Frig
rail between 19 and 22 Aprils
Comment. It is believed that rovements to Letzling Heath of units
of the lgth ads Me:cz Div 1, ch war b from 17 to 21 ,1,pril,, continued
The observation of an AM
ship :ent on .24 April confix~r s
,~, s~ ipmen s of r edi ur. E1Af1 a the 3d ads AAA Div in I'a _ recur were
oaoe an a same day-, presur bly for wustrow,
Comrzent,? So far, a signal ca*_dmunication battalion of the GOFG
=and aorkshop unit have been carried in the barracks inste.ll.ation in Goln,,
Cor:ment. Other records tended to indicate that the unidentified AT
~,r ty Frig of the Fourth Gds Vecz ,U-my transferred from Bernau to Templin
in six shipments between 21 and 2+ April. The shipment mentioned in the
present report may have been atrain of the brigade that nrrived behind
schedule
G?rzaentm Possibly, a sU rent with tanks of the 10th Gds Tank Div
which arrived late at Lotzlin , ?laath
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