MILITARY INFORMATION FROM NEURUPPIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003700970004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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staedter Strasse was occupied by a rew unit, in addition to:Unit `Vakow
previously fibserved there. Major. Y.ishchikhin (N) was supply officer of
the new unit.
].. --On 21 January 1954, the Friderii:us Kaserne,. Neurc ppin, was occupied to;
capacity as previously. About 10 troops ware"attend1ngJS-2 tarrk6
in a shed and about 20 troops received jnstruc tion on JS-3 tanks
L in the area in the rear of the installation.
these troops were recruits.
On 21 January,,,.:the Friedrich Franz Rasorne vas trccupie 1 as previously.
On 19 and .2C January, about 2,40 troops were drilling ark about 50 troops
. _On 19 and. 21. Ja
received instruction on 4 guns in the barracks yard'
2 trucks towing AA guns left the installation, returning 'in the even
'? On 15 January, the post hospital was occupied as previously by the }Iq.12th
Gds Tank Div Colonel Yornotenko (fnu) had returned from leave,
during which he had been promoted to the rank of colon&..
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6. On 14 January, the See Kaserne was occupied by about 2,000 troops wearing
red-bordered black epaulets, including a few with tank and artillery insignia.
About 200 troops received field training in the area between the installation
and the lake. About 20 troop h+ r Lion
with 54 apartments for officer families from Fridericus Kaserne was to be
built on Alt-Ruppiner Allee.
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7. Cn 1t+ January,, the Friedrich Franz Kaserne was occupied by about
1,OCO to 1,200 troops wearing reed-bordered black epaulets, including
a few with artillery insignia. About 30 to 40 troops received
instruction on 6 x 37 AA guns in the barracks yard. Little traini'.ng,
including drill and infantry training in group o about 0 trco s
was observed on the other da s of observation
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9. On 23 January, the Fridericus Kaserne was occupied as previously. On 20
January, an undetermined nua ber of troops practir. d a ng on 3 x' ;3'1-
AA guns in the b?zrr WAS v ^' AnA
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10. At about 1:30 parr., on 21 January, 3 tank cars with fuel were unloaded
at the Paulinenau railroad station. The fuel was shipped toward Fridericue
Kaaserne by tank trucks
Caranent. Compared with observations in early Janus', the inf'oriL\atioa
does not indicate any change in the distribution of units of the 12th Gds
Tank Div in Neuruppin prior to 21 January
information fails to indicate in the See Kaserne the 186th Gds Sig In
of the division which, since recently, has been carried there. Weapons
observed confirm the 75th Al Regt and the 226th Fort Regt in the
Friedrich i !ranz Kaserne and the S Kaserne respectively. Unit o w .'
the }I: 1.2th Gds Tank Div vith the kno
Colonel Yomotenko f. anu until 15 January 195.
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