MILITARY INFORMATION FROM COTTBUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000600540007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

8~ilitary i}rfnr tion J."ro Cottbus
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and west of Dresderer Stoma: se was occuiaied by about 1,200 to 1, 500
troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with, and without tank
Insignia,, About 60 soldiers received training in firing and two T-34/85
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:tom On 22 Jaraa.aar.x 1953, t:'hc 5ach.ser.dorf '1,a erne: on ,Jahn Strasse and
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iMadloner t?eg, Cottbus, is oecupt ? by about. 3,0:,0 troops w
red4be2rdered black j 5 ulets with t nk a. s Tillery, irroi:gnia".
.Abc azt 90 so__d.i er "INwo 'drilling ktvr the streF a, at tl`ie taitipn,
about 30 aoldicrs were, constructing iv' d fortificatio and about
20 soldi ex : anticed aiii iig bn t * ?a to m near' tla? _; stal.lati on.
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About 60 soldiers-received .nstrrctIo on seven 57 i AT
On 22 Januery, /+ x 76-m field guns and, 2 guns of about 8O r u ea`? iber
with barrels, about 1 meter longer than thoce of the 76- ii guns ;and
without ri zle brake, were -,c.-err in the ysr of the Alvonsloben Kasercae;,
south of Kent Liebknecht Strasse and east of Friedrich Enge s Strasse. o
Four 122 field howitzers which were ,-_repeatedly reported in this
3 .. On 22 January, the Funker Kaserne east of Pappel Al.lee and north of
Gulbener Strasse was occupied by about 200 troops werir:l.ng r?ed--bord gyred
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black epa viets and, a. few, black- r?dered black epaulets
installation. About 80 troops received instruction on the gt ns 0
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on 13 Decrrmber 1952, 18 tares: trucks, which E4ouroe bell ved belonged
to the airfield, were being entrained at the Cottbus ?a ilroad itation
12. A local resident stated that, :.prom 4 to 13 I . cxmber 1952, a ling e
n ,b er of mouses opposite the 411erma-m lens aserne had been
r :~ si a ~r aer ho e they had not yet been evacuated.
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the distribution of the ui
in the various barracks installations in Cottbus o
Thhe 1719th AAA Regtt of the 9'th !4ecz, ..v, on the ' $ s o this ;gin
the nr~ Cer se rases The
peg: e,vious c+rts, is believed station ? in
:a nforrriatio - son ?c( of psr a raph 9, according to which an engineer
u't is stationed in the Sachsendorf Kaeerne;, is received with some
:re.serve. The 82d E up- Bn of the 93th Necz Div i ay well be stationed
In Sp womb g~ keeording to reports by t other sm7rcf1 s. wmall tank
n . 7f t s, were tx ma f i ?.e d. from. Cottbus to Wt!ias mmssr on 21 and 26 January,
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