FURSTENWALDE-RAUEN AREA: BUILDINGS, ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT, PROJECT X-103, ASUCO WERK, WATCHTOWERS, AND RAIL SPURS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A059100220001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 23, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning 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 Ftirstenwalde-Rauen Area. Buildings,
Electronics Equipment, Project X-103,
ASUCO Werk, Watchtowers, and Rail Spurs
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE DISTR. 23 MAY 1961
(there is a two-storied 50X1-HUM
oui ing surmounted by a mast some 10 meters high. The building
stands in the middle of a fenced-in area measuring some 200 x 300
meters. The fence is made of double barbed wire strung on concrete
posts; the area is not guarded,
2. The building has a flat roof and four windows along the front of each
of its two stores and three windows along the side. The mast, which
is supported by steel guy wires running to the roof of the building,
carries eight metal dishes, each approximately 1 meter in diameter,
four on each side. Two windows of the building are curtained.
3. Appendix A is a sketch of the building with mast and dishes,
I+. The site is near the Fuchsbau site but is ?cnced off from it,
5. A 10-pair telephone cable was laid in January 1961 from this site to
run north-west toward Rauen, passing under the autobahn a short dis-
tance west of the wooden bridge for pedestrians which passes over the
autobahn. Appendix B is a sketch showing the location of the small
site and the approximate route of the cable.
6. On 26 March 1961, 18 armed men from the EGA. (East German Army) wearing
epaulets with red edges marched out of the X-103 Accommodation Site at
Rauen and went to the firing site. Inside the Accommodation Site there
are six wooden huts measuring some 10 x 20 meters and placed between the
main barracks block. The entrance to the Accommodation Site is from the
road running from Markgraipieske to the Rauensche Ziegelei, approximately
500 m west of the west edge of the Rauensche Ziegelei.
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7. The so called ASUCO Werkl ~rhich is occupied by So-
viet troops, is believed locally the a main storage depot.
8. It is bounded by the river Spree on the north side and by Langewahler
Str. on the south side. On all sides, except the north, it is sur-
rounded by a board fence 2 meters high which is surmounted-by-strands
of barbed wire.
9. There are three watch-towers equipped with searchlights and manned by
Soviet sentries. During the night, other sentries patrol the area.
The site is thickly wooded.
10. The number of Soviet troops stationed in this installation is esti-
mated at 400-500. They wear artillery insignia. A number of Soviet
officers and families also live inside the installation and there are
some 50 German civilians employed in it.
11. The storage halls and sheds contain stocks of spare parts for guns and
vehicles as well as reserves of trucks, cars, bridging equipment, bat-
teries, tires and guns. Overhaul and repair work is done in two large
repair sheds.
12. A rail spur runs from the FUrstenwalde/S .d rail sub-station into the
installation. On the bank of the Spree, on the north side of the site,
there is a wharf or pier alongside which barges can tie up.
13. BS 4504, FUrstenwalde, contains a Soviet medical unit or first-aid post.
Soviet troops wearing artillery insignia are also station there.
14. Appendix C is a sketch of the ASUCO (not to scale).
Distribution of Attachments (Attachments A9 B, and C described in paws.
3, 5 and 14 respectively and referred to as
Appendices),
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