GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION FROM EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003701070002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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At about 10:30 a.m. on 5 February 1954, about 5 T--34/ 5 tanks
and tracks presumably loaded with ammunition, moved along
the Borna-Frohburg road toward I!rohburg. I
Eas . Germany
COUNTRY
REPORT
TOPIC. General Military Information from East Germany
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT;
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
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REMARKS
At about 3 p.m. on 5 February, about 5 or 6 T-34/85 tanks
On 6 February 1954, 12 T-34/85 tanks and 4 or 5 trucks
were cads m atcars, and unidentified go s from oxcarts q a 25X1
e ittenberg railroad station. The troops moved to the Flak Kaserne. 2
about 15 trucks. with AA machine guns and 20 other tucks stood
eady to move out
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The .following columns were seen driving toward Potsdam from the direction of Kirar.pnitz:
in the yard of the Adolf Hitler Kaserne in .Potsdam. 3
At
trucks
120 mm mod s an rue
At about noon on_J . ?ebruaary: truck3
headed toward east and with the locomotive under steam.
CLASSIFICATION
which towed 120- n mortars.
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owing
owing 57 mm AT guns.
At about 1:20 p.m. on 2 February, a shipment of about 12 trucks, 6 guns, presumably
152-an gun howitzers and 6 prime movers arrived at the Biederitz railroad station 25X1
from the direction of Loburg or G?raamiern. The depar-
ture of the shipment from Biederitz was not observed. At the same time, an empty
train headed toward east and with the locomotive under steam stood sidetracked. At
7:30 a.m. on 5 February, a train with about 15 trucks, and 6 to 8 heavy guns, pre-
sumably 152-ten gun howitzers, was sidetracked at the Biederitz railroad station,
elements of the 10th Ode Tank Div.
4. ~ c a ent. ele3ne;nts' of the 299th Gds
Mort Aegt of the lCf*vh Gds Tank Div which presw ply returned to the Kriegs Schule
in Potsdam from exercise ..at Doeberitz troop training grounds a
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The obse atiora ccnfirm the shi ont Uo alxd from A.J.,tengrabow of
elornont of the 34th . ty Div = betxreen 1, and 5 F* binary The units conch c d
Air1rg practice at A ,to abow4
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