ARMAMENT SUPPLY FOR KVP

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION OLU '1'
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR~
INFORMATION REPORT
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
course in July 1954., 20 IVP of the company belonged to VP-See. The students
have to pass a final examination by Lieutenant Colonel Boerner (fnu),
representing the administration of the special s ction of ordnance supply,
by the party secret^ry of the cadre unit of the central repair shop (ZW), and
by section chiefs of the V. ''er_.orer-artl_fienr officials 7raduated. from these
courses are similar to those of the former German Army.
2, rKPP ordnance officers similar to the technical officers of the former German
wero trained at a school in Pirna which, alt'no *h planned as a technical
col-107e, is still below standard because of a shcrt ge of skilled instructors.
Only short-term courses for ordnance officer candidates are being held at
Doberlug.
?!To rocket launchers, recoilless AT guns, machine guns of a modern type, or
Fanzerfaust series were observed at the ZW. It is believed that the central
ordnance depot (ZGL) does not store such weapons, In late July, a total of
14 x 37-M AA gun:' was seen ct, the ZW and ZGL.
Only small arms were a
artillery pieces will
Poerner (fnu), who
deputy of General
also responsible fo:
usted at Doberlug. A firing range for mortars and
onstructed in the near future,
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y promoted to the rahkk of lieutenant colonel, is
rind chief of the repair shop section. Boernor is
plants, such as the VEB r:t Qttenwalde and an
!rtenauer Strasse in U h6rmitz which manufactures springs
for rw ch ne gun: ? L:_nd -~_-_ machine guns
6. Except for small quantities manufactured at Boberlr ,, moot of the spare parts
for the ZW are sunrlied by the VEB Mittenwalde via the ZGL. The present
deliveries inclul3.e spare parts for small arms, except for bolts and barrels.
Since no. spare parts for heavy weapons are being supplied, artillery pieces hove
to be cannibalized in order to obtain parts for the repair of others. Repair
work is also done at Yittenwa1de. Most of the repairs, however, were deficient
and led to complaints. ' On 7 July, 74 bipods for light and medium mortars were
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the 74 bipods had been done at Doberlug, it would have taken a
total of-666 hours.'The VEME Mittenwalde which has a Captain Meier (fnu)
as director, placed orders to factories at Suhl and Chemnitz. 200 wooden
stocks for submachine guns arrived at the ZW from Suhl in mid-July.
7. In July, the monthly capacity of the ZW was three times as high as that
of December 1953. At present, 1,200 Soviet submachine guns and to be
overhauled and, by late July, to be issued to LVP units employed along
the zonal border in exchange for carbines. The Zeiss Plant in Jena was
ordered to develop spare lenses for Soviet optical instruments. The
lenses were to be deli?ered in late 1954. Dr Berg (fnu) of the Zeiss
Plant in Jena was in charge of the technical work.
8. On 16 July, the observations indicated no chap ^e in the number of
artillery pieces and in the occupation Hof the .KVp centra7 ordnance
depot near Dab erlug-l .rcl-.h; in_ as compare:' to June.
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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia IRi
TOPIC,
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EVALUATI0N_I PLACE OBTAINED,
DATE OF CONTENT
REFERENCES_
REMARKS-
DATE PREPARED 24 August 1954
This is UNEVALUATED Information
1 In September 1953, air activity over the HI?abuvka (4.9047? N/18?161 E)
airfield east of the Bielau: woods by 2 to-3 tvyin-engine transport
aircraft at- altitudes of 80G to.1,,000 meters was observed from Xuncioe
(49?483 14/180179 E) south of Ostrava ( aebriseh Gatrau) at a aista ce of -about
2,0CC meters. Fifteen to 20 soldiers were seen parachuting from each of
the aircraft which subsequently flew some loops, landed and took-off
again for more parachuting practices. This air activity took plve only
in favorable weather in the afternoons o Only white parachutes were used o
Firing practices, bombing or the dropping of equipment were never seen.
2. Three to four times weekly, single='engine piston-engine aircraft made
local flights at altitudes of 300 to 400 meters o
3. Between September and. late November 19539 single jet aircraft with
considerably swept-back wings practiced flying at altitudes of 500
to 600 meters in the Ostrava air space. The aircraft, rcraft, which
were all of the seine .type,, usually flew individually and occasionally in
formations of two and three. The aircraft were apparently not stationed
at Hrabuvka airfield o
O 4 onto The observations made apparently concerned air activity at
a uvka airfield. The field is mainly us for commercial flying, but in
addition is also used for. pre m~lftsarry -6kaining. Parachuting .-
previously observed here but only in oo nnect ton with Air Farce Day in
September 1953? The jet fighters observe in the Oetrava (eh-Yiseh 03trsu) ai.
space probably came from Prerov airfield r6here an air unit equipped with
jet aircraft is assumed to be stationed
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