GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003700120002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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February ? 1954
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At 4 p.m. on.12 January 1954, jeep I I and 8 to 10 sidecar, motorcycles,
each.mounting 1 machine gun and occupied by officers and EM wearing red-borelo-r-A
black epaulets were seen on the Bred ereiche-7,ootzen- %er?ctenberg road'. 1 25X1
On 19 January, 25X1
about 40 trucks and 12, x 120-mm mortars were seen in the yard of the 'iegsschule
At 10 a mn - on 17 January, 11 T-34/85 tanks 25X1
5 to 6 SP guns, presumably --? guns,
armored personnel carrier, 10 to 15 trucks occup. ed by troops and including
ere seen in Schwanebeck, coning from the direction 25X1
of Birkholz or Ahrensfelde and proceeding toward Zepernick.. 2
At about 4:30 p.m. on 18 January, furniture was unloaded from boxcars at the
Potsdam-Wild park railroad station and was trucked to the Kriegsschule on Pappel
All.ee;.
At about 7 a.m. on 18 January. 20 trucks occupied by troops wear3. Z red bordered
black epaulets, and about 20 prime 25X1
movers, towing 20 x 152-mm gun howitzers of-model 1937, were seen en route to-
ward Potsdam, coming from the direa tion of ktsdam-Eiche. At - about 8 on 19
January, _8 Shte--Kati prime movers,
7 and 25X1
towing 6 x l22 or 152-m guns passed over Lange Bruecke, coming from the
eke. r, fit` 5 minutes,
direction of Tegdlits and proceeding toward D Itz or R z
the column was followed by 3 prime movers, and tow- .25X1
plea s earing
ing 2 guns of 122 mm or 152 mm. and 1 truck r .er oc 'u
red-bordered black epaulets. At about s M. a occupied 25X1
by officers, and 11 trucks and occupied by troop:
passed over Lange Bruerke, coin ng r m e rec on o litz and. proceeding
toward M ehendorf . At about 8:30 a.ma,, on 20 January, 12 &-65 prime movers, each
towing a 122 mm or 152 mm gun, and 3 prime movers, each towing 1 truck trailer
occupied by troopewearing red-bordered black epaulets, passed over Lange, Bruecks
coming from the directi-on of Nedlitz. The prime movers had covered 25X1
G ?ent. According to motor vehicle
Second Gds Mecz Army.
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the column belonged to the
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Co eta . According to motor vehicle and tank J the tank
units be or e the a egt o t e 6th Gds -,ecav foal the restrict-
ed area in the west section of the Wulal.garten.lieilanstalt (former insane asylum).
C e . The furniture was shipped away by trucks of the 1.Oth Gds Tank Div.
This observation, in connection with the mortars seen, tends to indicate that
the 299th Gds Mort Regt of the division from Brandenburg transferred to the Kriegs-
schule in Potsdam, which, so far, had only partially been occupied. The regi-
ment would thus have, followed the 63d Gds Tank Regt of the division which, in
late October, transferred from Brandenburg to the Adolf Hitler,Kaserne in Pots-
dam. Pertinent information from Brandenburg has not yet been received.
transferred by road to firing practices at Jueterbog.
carried with the 10th Gds Tank Div, the artillery columns observed in l'otsdam,
according to their weapons, belong to the 34th Arty Div (L'8) nrr,hraV,'t
Gcur Ant. Although motor vehicle
units of the division had left via the same route already on 1/. January.
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