LOADINGS AND MILITARY SHIPMENTS IN JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300760004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLAS81FICAT,ION T!77~
East Germany
Loadings and Military Shipments in Jena
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15 June 1955
10 The following shipments were loaded at the Saalebahnhof in Jena on 4 an 5X1
the Landgraf training area.
and 4 officers with bridge building insignia*
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lay 1955:
From Forst Kaserne (8225). At 0800 on 4 May. 8 x 122-mm field howitzers 25X1
and 14 trucks.
Fro14 69261 ,]se"jbO and 1100 on 4 May, 11 SU-100 guns,
1 T assisp $ ffm~ y is, 2 light canvas-covered AA
vehicles. 3 tank trucks, 1 radio truck and several other trucks
Between 1130 and 1400, 10 T-34 tanks, 8 armored scout cars, 4 other armored
infantry guns, 2 armored vehicles, and several trucks
earrvina TMP steel pontoons
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From Polizei Kaserne (8223). Between 1130 and 1400 on May, model GPA 25X1
US-Ford amphibious vehicles k for troops 25X1
with a trailer carrying a motorboat three-axle trucks
Between 0800 and 0900 On 5 May, 28 trucks with TMP steel pontoons, 3 radio
trucks, 5 trucks for personnel, and 1 canvas-cov red motor boat.
Additional trucks were seen on the 1"41 ramp. 25X1
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2. Asegggft $ k 1 e+esidents, the oMO$S dt the post, except for a rear
ds*@ile ~ W 'eeM~ for Ohrdruf prior ft and to return from there
on 15 ISep~r1~A 25X1
3. Between 2 and 17 May, little activitt was observed in the barracks
installation in Loebatedt. Individual tanks left toward or returned from
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4. Between 6 and 14 May, groups of up to 50 soldiers received training in
the barracks installation in.Jena-Zwaetzen (8221). Individual JS and T-34
tanks were seen in the barracks aoeea mod on route to the Lane raf training
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5. The Polizei Kaserne was only lightly occupied.,On7 , a rear detail
constructed a bridge across the Saale River.
6. On 14 and 16 May, 11 tanks aof an undetermined type were seen in the
Landgraf training area.
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1. Comment. Elements of the 172d Gde How Arty Regt of the 20th Ode 25X1
Mecz iv were entrained and are thus confirmed in the Forst Kaserne until
May 1955-
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to 14 tanks of which were entrained at 0000 on the same day,
Comment. The T-34 tanks probably belonged to the 66th Gds Meoz Regt,
have also belonged o this regimen *
The SU-100 guns may
Comment. Elements of the 88th Gde Engr Bn of the 20th Ode Meoz Div
Comment. Although no loadings of units from the Zwaetzen Kaserne were
observed, it is assumed that elements from this installation had also left.
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