MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800420002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA002800420002-6
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EVALUATION_
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OSTAIINED
REFERENCES-'
Bran enburp
_DATE PREPARED
PACES. ENCLOSURES (No.
REMARKS
21 Ootnber 1953
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1. On 25 September 19539 the Generalfeldzeugneister Kaserne, Brandenburg, was
occupied to capacity as previousl by troops wearing red-bordered black
epaulets with artillery insignia. Between 800 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on 18
:;eptentber9 4 gun barrel t ai lets l un motor carriages, 10 prime movers,
including. 4 trailers and .2 trucks; and another
12 tx ticks lllr a tie k1tClIeW
seen en rang the ins a,uaon,coming
from the direction of the Dra.ndenbur ._A1t.stadL railroad station. On the morning
of 21 September, 96 officers reported for dutp. Between 9 a.m. and noon, the 50X1-HUM
troops passed in review before . a general. At about 6:30 a.m.-on 22 Septe
a column of 2 gun barrel trailer for . carriages, 6 rime mov rs 50X1-HUM
trailers and
about troops left the installation toward the ro ing mill. The column .50X1-HUM
ret:.:rned at about 7:30 p.m. On the same day, about 150 troops left the n,
returning in the afternoon. At a .bout '6.3O aline on 21,. September. tr:srk^
occupied by a total of about
ua vupsj lel . Tin__s tai1atson to-ward, the rolling mill. On 25 Septa fiber,
a column of 20 trucks -tc:wing 10 x 122-mm howitzers; and 1 sedan,
'left the ins tallataon.
The column returned at about 7pem. 50X1-HUM
2. On. 22 September, 40 troops wearing red-border.4 black eata,j? is received instruction
on 3 x 203-mm howitzers at the firing range on Quenz See (lake) Two majors and
four lieutenants were seen with the troops.
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Coznr:.en'.. The Generalfeldze
gmeister i{asortze b.-, carried as- being occupied
previously by units of the 124th Hv How Arty Bra g prior to 25 September.
On 18 September, a shipment of the bri . e h6d ,
a ive rora engra ow;
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA002800420002-6