MILITARY INFORMATION FROM QUEDLINBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700050006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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...DATE PREPARED
29-May 1953
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to Prior to 9 May l953g, the Quedlinburg airfield was occupied by an estimated 100
troops who wore black-bordered crimson epaulets,
25X1 Thirty to. 4 so ers were repeatedly seen
25X1 receiving training in ri-rlng In the training area south of the instal lationo
25X1 the barracks installation would again be occupied in Maur;;
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25X1 ruck as almost daily seen on route to the airfield. Six 120 -mm mortars,
rather than small guns, had been entrained during the previously reported loadingsn
20 Prior to 9 May, the Harz Jugendheim (home for youth) was occupied by an estimated 200
to 250 troops wearing red bordered black epaulets without branch of service insignia
and blue-bordered black epaulets with signal. insignia. On 19 t1pril, abo?tt 90
unarmed soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets marched toward the town,, Truck
25X1 I Ioccupied by about 20 troops who wore red-bordered black or blue-0erderad
25X1. black e ets entered the in,~:tallationn On 20 and 21- April, jao and
25X1 sedan ere seen in front of the quarters., On 23 April, eight ere
wearing blue-bordered black epaulets with signal insignia, and six officers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets without branch of service insignia went toward
25X1 the komendatura. Sedan which almost daily was seen in the town, was seen
in front of the komendaturae 2 May, about 120 troops, who wore red-bordered black-
and, a few,, blue-bordered black epaulets and carried small arms ma., ched toward the
Altenburg firing range. They returned at about 7 p.m. Truck parked in front
25X1 of the installation, On 7 Nay, S officers, including 2 wearing blue-bordered black
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epaulets with signal insignia, and about 90 EM, wearing red-bordered black epaulets
and carrying small arts, marched toward the barracks installation at the airfield.,
The unit returned at about 6 p.m. On S May, three van-like trucks., apparently radio
trucks, were seen near the radio station Truck ]arrived at the radio
station, coming from, and later returning to, the town o Four underground bunkers were
under construction near the radio statione2
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co ng to informatlon In this repor g e
r e , on May,, was oc major guard detail only. Therefore,, the bulk
of the 597th Mtz Rifle Regt of the 207th Mtz Rifle Div carried there is believed
stationed in the wood cramp southeast of Jaevenitz, where other - elements of the
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division engage in summer training. It is undetermined,, whether the regiment
will return in May.
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conjunction with the preparation of a practice mobilization. The radio station
probably also belongs to the signal detail..
unit be :Longs the unidentified signal ree ent of the Third Gds Mecz Army.
signal detail presumably serves a forward trunk line of the army,,, which is
located in the expected concentration area of the array, north of the Harz
Mts0.It is fairly definitely believed that this is a routine practice in
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