SOVIET OB NOTES IN THE BERLIN AREA AND MECKLENBURG

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 26, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP,
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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Rathenow (Z-15)
Some new artillery units have been added to those
Rathenow and all barracks are fully occupied.
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Based inside the Karlshorst enclave are the following: one
infantry regiment used for guard duty, with staff and two
battalions located in the former Engineers School on the
Zwieselerstrasse; one infantry platoon in the Marksburgerstrasse
and half a platoon in the Waldow-Allee and Kbpenic'ker-Allee;
twenty to thirty communications troops in the Weselerstrasse;
two naval companies. whose staff is "Located in the Hentigstrasse.
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the a e w garrison was strengthened by P,?,_:, ery
units shifted there from Bitterfeld and Ranis., Thuringi-4)
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Eisenberg in the Ziethen Barracks; and 1,600 fVD men, almost all
of officer rank, quartered in private houses in the area leading
from the railroad station to the center of the city. One of the
barracks is reported to shelter 162 tanks.
an officers' school: 23500 infantrymen and 150 officers order
Colonel Boriskov in the City Barracks; 23000 artilleryii n and
250 officers under Colonel Grumikov,1n the former Artillery
Barracks; 4,000 armored personnel. and 350 officers under Lt Col
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4. ecklenbur,
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As of 20 June there were no Soviet' garrisons in L 5wenberg (Z69)9
Herzberg (Z,7,;9'5, Rheinsberg (1 1) and Zechlin (U-31).
eburr (160)
On 21 June, a newly formed infantry division with some tanks
was observed quartered in tents and dirt emplacements fifteen
kilometers northwest of Magdeburg.
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