WEEKLY OB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300880004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Weekly OB Summary
REPORTI
DATE DISTR. 9 November 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITI
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
The following is a summary of Soviet and KVP military activities prior to
7 November 1954:
A. Soviet Troop Dispositions, Movements and Exercises:
1. Second Guards Mechanized Army:
Elements of the 31st AAA Division were moved in one shipment from Velten
to Fuerstenberg on 29 October.
2. Third Guards Mechanized Army:
The return of the 6th Guards Tank Division to Wittenberg was confirmed
on 2 November. One train with 15 converted boxcars, two boxcars and four
flatcars had gone from Wuensdorf to Wittenberg on 31 October. The return of the
80th Heavy Tank and SP Regiment of the 9th Mechanized Division to Installation
3300 in Drachhausen was determined on 2 November. Seven additional barracks
are scheduled to be built at Drachhausen~
3. Third Shock Army:
The return of the army engineer battalion from Tangerhuette to Barby was
confirmed on 21 October.
L,. Eighth Guards Army:
On 22 and 23 October, an artillery unit with 22 artillery pieces returned
to the Bismarck Kaserne (8385) and the Hubertus Kaserne (8382) in Naumburg.
The 76th Artillery Brigade was identified in Merseburg prior to 24 October.
Elements of the 68th Guards Heavy Tank and SP Regiment of the 20th Guards Mechanized
Division were observed detraining in Jena on 20.and 21 October. A rifle regiment
of the 39th Rifle Division was observed at its post in Meiningen on 20 October.
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5, Fourth Artillery Corps:
Elements of the 34th Artillery Division returned in one shipment from
Wildpark to Altengrabow on 22 October. One train carrying elements of the
32nd AAA Division with 32 x 37.2 mm AA guns went from Frankfurt/Oder toward
Berlin on 30 October.
6. GSFO U nits
On 19 October, three trains carrying major elements of the 36th Bridge
Building Regiment went from Magdeburg to Coswig/Elbe, presumably for exercises
in the Appolensdorf area.
7. Transportation:
Personnel Exchange Program: Thirty-five eastbound occupied
rains were definitely determined between 29 September and 4 November.
It is believed that 24 additional trains were dispatched during this period.
Forty-two westbound occupied trains were definitely determined
during the aforementioned period and additional ones are believed to have
been di8patch3d. It is estimated that prior to 4 November 98,000 recruits
arrived in East Germany and 81 000 dischargees have been returned to the USSR.
The following east bo d trains are scheduled to be dispatched between
9 and 16 November:
from Bernau toward ues r n ana eignT, a
from Jueterbog to Kuestrin via Frankfurt Oder.
b. Dispatch of Flatcars: The detachment of empty flatcars from RED
Berlin for shipment to Brest-Litovsk was interrupted on 3 November after the
dispatch of ] No more than 1,000 flatcars could
have been dispatched prior to this date.-Me purpose of.the operation has as
yet not been determined.
B. KVP Developments:
Two hundred and fifty men of Infantry Regiment Prenzlau have been detached to
Corps South. The KVP barracks in Niederschlag have been torn down.
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