UNIT DEPARTURE AGORDAT BARRACKS AREA, ETHIOPIA

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 2, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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NPIC/PEG (2/82)
UNIT DEPARTURE
AGORDAT BARRACKS AREA. ETHIOPIA
1. (S/D) SIGNIFICANCE: A UNIT, TEMPORARILY HOUSED IN A BIVOUAC
AREA SOUTH OF AGORDAT BARRACKS AREA, HAS DEPARTED, PROBABLY TO
PARTICIPATE IN A LARGE-SCALE MILITARY OPERATION IN THE PROVINCE
OF ERITREA.
2. (SID) REMARKS: THE LARGE POSSIBLE MILITARY BIVOUAC SOUTH OF
AGORDAT BARRACKS, WHERE PERSONNEL PROCESSING .WAS OBSERVED ON
HAS BEEN STRUCK AND A LARGE CONVOY OF
145 VEHICLES (PARTIALLY SHOWN ON 1 ,tAPHIC) IS ON A ROAD HEADING
SOU HWEST AWAY FROM-f TOWN. HOWEvER, THE ARMY BARRACKS REMAINS
NEARLY NORMAL WITH TILREE PROBABLE .TANRST :0-RE SIX-GUN FIELD
ARTILLERY BATTERY, AND APPROXIMATELY 60-VEHICLES/PIECES OF
EQUIPMENT PRESENT.
CONSISTED OF AT -LEAST 134 TWO-MAN TENTS.
THE BIVOUAC HAD BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE
TEN ADDITIONAL LARGE TENTS AND A LARGE NUMBER OF PERSONNEL NEAR
A PROBABLE PERSONNEL PROCESSING CENTER.
THE LARGE TENTS HAD BEEN STRUCK. MANY OF
THE TWO-MAN TENTS HAD BEEN STRUCK, ND 30 TRUCKS HAD BEEN
ASSEMBLED WITHIN THE BIVOUAC, INDICATING PREPARATIONS FOR
DEPARTURE.
(S/D) AGORDAT IS APPROXIMATELY 75 NM WEST OF ASMARA IN CENTRAL
ERITREA PROVINCE IN ETHIOPIA.
3.I COORDINATES 15-32-35N 037-52-55E
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S/D) THE LARGE MILITARY BIVOUAC WAS ESTABLISHED
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