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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001900190007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED `~ o''`ne 1153
REFERENCES
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1. On 2~ and ~9 p~fay 1.953, s?urce detern;ined that courses for artillery
officers were conducted. in the I,andesjugendheirr on Wriezener Strasse, atrausber~=.
At least ~0 artd not more than lOC officers, including about 20 captains and
several iaajort:~ wearing red-bordered silver epaulets with artillery insignia,
and 20 senior lieutenants and lieutenants wearing red-bordered silver epaulets
witki arti11er3~ insignia were attending the courses. Several f ieldgrade a~'ficers
wes.ring red-bordered golden epaulets with artillery insignia and a colonel
wearing red--bordered golden epaulets with tank insignia, wera also o'o;~erved.
Scarce had they 3,.~press3on-that two courses were held, Frith the students
wearing red.-bordered silver epaulets and the instructors red-bordered golden
epaulets. An &~-uun AA gun. was in the north section of the gymnasiur.? and two
block and tac~~le sets were in the south section. A medium tank and another
armored vehicl.e~ details of which could not be observed, were east of the
gymz2asiura. Bei;ween noon and 2 p.m. on 29 A~ay, about 15 officers received 25X1 C
instruction oz; tanks. At about 1 p.m., a lieutenant wearing red-bordered
gc~lderr epaulets and l0 E1~? wearing r'ed-bordered black epaulets left the
installation on a pneumatic raft toward Straussee (lake).
carr~ring ration supplies entered the installation. TYie bail. ing oppose e e
entrance of the Landesjugendheirn-was occupied as previously by abo~:zt 50 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia..
2. ~'ouree was no's able to det:~rmne the occupation strength of the barracks
installation on $traussee, Source did not observe any training activity ar
vehicular tra''fc. Gate guards observed wore red-bordered black epaulets.
T~ majors wearing crimson-bordered silver- epaulets with administrative
service insigr~ia, a senior lieutenant wearing red-bordered golden epaulets
without branch of service insignia, and ahorse-drawn ver~acle occupied by
two soldiers wearin red-bordered-black epaulets were een en-route to the
installation, were near2 5X1 C
the vf'#'ieers~ billets, about 1~0 meters nor peas o e ormer gist
home. 'T'he former ~ursehenf'uersorgeheirt; about 6Q0 meters east of the I,andes-
jugendheim-was occupied by about 20C troops wearing red--bordered black
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~ComsnentW -The artillery officer school in the La.ndes~ugendheitr~ was
occupied as previously by an instruction course:whereas the course
conducted. at the NCO school non S~traussee
probably ended in late Niay. he 25X1 A
seen near the officers bit e s e ongs o e Iiecz Div. 25X1C
25X1A 2. ~,o_m,,Xnexit, in Worlid 'Tar II, belonged to the 152d Crds Rifle
25X1 C e~~' the 5~?th B 1 _e Uiv.' I21 Ju7_v 7 ~G_f3. Pl Pmt?nt.S of t~hP r7i sri ei nn _ ~.rhi nh
were subordinate. to the Twenty-Eighth Army, .were in the Baranovichi area,.
Byelorussian MD. It is, therefore, possible that the abovementioned division
~.t present, is stationed. a.n Brest, ss3.bly belongs to the P1C0 25X1 C
school Q~' the- GOFG in the b~,rrac~ss ns a -a ion on 5traussee in Straueberg..
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