SOVIET ROCKET LAUNCHER UNIT NEAR BREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004700080002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
USSR Brest Oblast)
Soviet Rocket Launcher Unit
near Brest..
This is UNEVALUATED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 21 September 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE, SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TEJ4IATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSEY",
In the morning of 29 May 1954, Soviet soldiers were observed training with
rocket launchers about 600 meters east of the railroad bridge over thc.
13iig River, in -Brest, about 100 meters south of the railroad line. A 25X1
group of soldiers practiced with 22;rocket launchers which were presumably
M/13 models. Another group of soldiers.. carrying field packs practiced
mounting and dismounting from about 30 trucks which were arranged in a line.
A third group of soldiers constructed telephone' lines.
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