SOVIET CANTONMENTS IN THE BRANDENBURG AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600660012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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REFERENCES
PAGES.- ?, .-. -- _-_._-_ENCLOSURES (No. a r/PE)
1. Camu Schweinvich (N 54/U 22)-,*
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a, Occupied by a 10-rnas.1 guard detail on 11 January 1950
Do motor vehicle traffic,, German workmen repaired canton-
anent buildings,,
ba Lt Col Ristrov, previous camp cornn ndant, was transferred
and given another appointment in early January 1950, lie
was succeeded by Laj Borodulin ^tose previous unit could not
be id ant if' ie d
2. Cantoz;,ie.at o Trebb n (N 53/Z 71) **
u. Cccuoisd by about 250 troops on 17 January 1950?
=Soldiers wore red-bordered black epaulets with artillery
b? Four trucks with mounted rail-type rocket -launchers
u&ta1in_Orge n'j were in the garages.
c~ A new,, 80 x 20-meter shed was built in the oantonment fl
about 800 meters east of the railroad station.
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3,, cantonment or Neu_Gersdorr (N 53/V 18):***
on 28 January 1950 n lumberman said that more troops recently
moved into the cantonments The troops quartered tore
were estimated at 500., Tr Allavadly arrived
at the cantonment o Trucks and 25X1 B
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CONFIDENTIAL
No troops were in Came; Schweinrich during the winter of
Ti`1i,At~freby regri~ ea tpo
This dc -l' the
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CON: 6e.?d,, 1978 tom the
letter In?:e!!Ige:n a to the
Director .United S:a;cs.
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1949/1950 The obs er-
vation of indicates
that troops W again move to the troop tagining grounda
presumably in or after Larch 1950,
Lt Col Ristrov was identified as camp co:cmnandant in the
Sumrne r of 1929
that the artillery unit in the Trebbin cantonment belongs
to th e
(Cadre), From previous reports the r eg mmt is assume to
be stationed in the former Reich Labor S@rvico cantonment 1,
Trebbin9
The troops observed in Camp heu-Gersdorf (K1obbic te-TramIA
troop training, ground.) in January 1950 are believed to have.
been artillery units from the 13 be rswaide-Bernau area which
held their winter firing practices,
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