GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100780005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC-- . C 3neral Military Znfornation
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tanks,
and truck
After martial law had been declared in Dresden by the garrison corvandezz
Major General Shi yrov and the conmander of the temporary headquarters,
.Lieutenant Colonel Bogdanov, the fo tanks and guns took position
at ntioned, T__43 tank ugastus Bruecke,
tatik tstadt; JS-3 tank arnored smut c
rind truck ccupied by troops wearing black-bordered
ennnl ota a: hra ` r af'o tderk a.ll nn 8 T une? 1 and JS-3 tanks
epaulets at Hubertus Plat;
Verk, JS-3 tanks
PLACE TAI
OBNED)
16 July 1953
DATE PREPARED_.__
This is UNEVALUATED Information
at Trachenber er Flats; 3 JS-3
and armored scout car
and personnel carrier
e Traro
Jmounting
Ana chine gun, at the c em: cal p -'an von Hayden, Radebeiil; and JS-3 tank
at the Sachsenverlag, all on 19 June. 2
occupied br-troops wearing red-bordered black
epaulets. rotor vehicles
installation. Five arr,ore
scow cars an
were near the
4 On 28 June, about 1,CC0 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets, and an
undetermined number of field guts, tanks, AT guns and AA guns were
assembled in the wooded area southeast of Brandis airfield, 5
i-ere seen en route to the
riored personnel carriers
komendatura.4
wearing red-bordered black
t 15.05 a.m. on 22 June- a of umn of 9 T-34 tankO
passed through Pomssen, coming from
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hours, it was followed by T-34 tanks At about'
5 p.nie on 24 June, the nine tanks returned toward Grirunae
3, On 29 June, the Flak Kaserne, t'erseburg, was occupied by about 200 troo
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IIt is possible that the
i anks moved from Koenigsbrueck to Grimr~a on 18 June, and Joined the
elements of the division employed in Leipzig on 22 June.
Previous reportr, tended to indicate that elements of the 7th Gds Tank
Div from Letzling Heath were employed in- Merseburgd
The assumption that elements of the 76th Arty
Prig of the XXIX Gds Mtz Rifle Corps from Kindel returned to
Merseburg is ba ed on1~r ors the observation of 1C4~tns AT Bursa
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