SOVIET TROOPS IN THE POTSDAM AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003500540008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. a. An artillery unit with nir4a guns o 7'about 150 nn caliber was
entrained for ALTEN( tA130W (i! 5/Z 00) at the railroad station of
11. DPARK near POV~DA:4 (14 53/Z 63) the afternoon cf 23 June 1949.
This urru.t had been quartered in the former 4juftnachrichtan 1 aserne
POTSDAMA-FICHE.
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With the departure of the artillery unit, the former haft-
nachrichten Xasorne was lightly occupied by recruits and training
poreo n3o1.
June 1949
2. a. The POTSDAN- COLM A .aserne was occupied only by a rear detail
of an artillery unit on 27 J!rne 1949.
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13 July 1949
a. 't'he POTSDAI(-N LITZ kasornes were occupied by about 500
troops, allegedly infantry ,troops,, on 13 July 1949. Three high
radio assts, formin; a triangle, were observed in the kaserne
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b. Tank, artillery and infaneryy units totaling about 10000
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6. ?i'a.nks were unlocideu -. 1.'Q L . train of 25 flatcars-at the
Sii.T --oi, railroad stati em. The tunics left in the irectlcn of
tl)(i ...a-: it'it'2 "-sserne.
rp1 s:;.c i~d.~klrs~ stx~~ctitia :-..on on of the .era, r o3'
on (:Mc was 1.cioateo. in the i'-)r to
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hColf t1At1 eY.';erno of on 15 4,::1y 111-.-149. Col
wa:.a ;of p uric poi :?i.i4OAi, wav : eputy/ C)ofS of t hi.s soctici'i.
The 1'or,:ie:c w?- 5illctec at 05 :Iao ;ora.t.'ieo and the lattor t
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a. One section. of the kaa : r:ie was occupied by
a Loviet :one police school. The Sov.,ct,-occupied kaserne section
(seven build' .n?- a) has a capacity of r.bout 1,500 troops.
b. he ' LhDLiTZ kaserna is also referred to as formier
LuLendorff Aasor e .
according to pray ,::us 3ni'or:.ation, t e i OtSE:;.~ Msera ea are
,ssu. ,. U to be occup c:d by the of i o u'ta.= wn
a. z or,tiea" Lu. 'tnaChx''.Ciiten I'Xser?1(i '(}` (~Y,~',SLA ii *UL:
Art .ller.?y unit of the Nth uc:.s . ~tsxa t~ct "r-A 25X1
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troops left the 1'.0.2Q11 t 1.::..a r?a1lro;;a sti, L icn f 4,, AJ TE->
(nL 1~~ in Jur'e nnc:F earl- July ;?t-4). it Is cllt vc6 t..r,t al'.1
troops co~.lcerncu bolos ?'c:. to the sa!ie a.7t1llcny unit.
t). ,teas e me of P C)i'SDA ?a"U1~.:
whether or not ;.lie
kaserne anc the YUA'~i . ?':t- 1CI Luftnt chrichl;en :mss c,.-:xx?a
a;?a Identical.. it appo rs however that the kase3rncg :nent.ic':nda
are different Installations-1
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troop (pze~s :~abl.y 110L u.ji~:.e } in ?;ha iiuc:endoi fa .-I,aserne. in Gantry
troo-as wer 55reviously obeervec in either kaserino,
d.
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ti ,ioo
in .the
former
s chile .
kaserno:
I component unite of the lst
.:::a or Trans Re t of t ho .jM.L a were eta-
Meares isit- wu i~ahr-
e. a'or xer itdolf -Hitler .aserne :
i has not yct been possible to icie :ztity the .writs stationed in
the for..er Adolfs=4Titl?r kias t ., believed that uAts of
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s e'rec pons a tn_e.t the Supply and .Ad:::inistrative Section a the
JO.e fs .Flay be lcxcatcci in the i OTSILa.: Adolf Hitler Aasc:rnc. No per
tinent infor:,.ation has as 'cat been receive.ii
The report,- o officers are un'.aaor.n.
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