SOVIET AMMUNITION DEPOT AND SOVIET UNIT NEAR KOTZENAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006200360001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The aimmnition depot b tai south of 1iotzenau (0 52/x; 6L) in
Dilesia, is housed in a former G;rrian ai:.n: n.ition do:)ot and was
dir::ctly as i; .a.ed to an arr, hoadcjuart..:rs in Lie;;^.aitz (0 52/13 82).*
Commandant of the de-:)ot and of the army unit stationed thero was
Colonel : skin (fnu). His adjutant was L7a;jor Vasadin (feu). The
de pot is locacod in a thick pine :woods, :soiae hundred raetcrs .rest of
the Dohna railroad station and has a co:anuction to the railroad
station.
2. The depot covers an area of 2,500 x 800 motors and .was su'odivie?eci
into three departraonts. Departm-nt I stored mortar arraunition of 32,
120 and 160 mn. calibers, and. :sr1a11 arms araraunition packed in boxes
and stored in earth bunker:. Department II had AT artillery ammunition
of 37, 57 and 76.2 run calibers and AAA a: mnition of 37, 57 and 8 r:3n
calibers. Department III stored artillery a:;nunition of 100, 122, 152
and 203 rata calibers 'alon :?rith the suitable German cart-ridges. All
bunkers were filled to c:ipa.city. The stored armunition wav well cleaned
and ;reased and its cleanlinos.; as currently checked. Three cleaning,
shedS,, two %ia;azicaes, oev.ral wooden sheds an en ;ine ciled for the
depot railroad, in addition to a water point and a loadiaa, rare with a
shed forded as~art of the do ?ot. !all buildings -aere camouflaged brick
structures with flat roofs. lnco.mi ng a-.-,munition shipments arrived
irre?ularly ly rail. JutGoin shipments were seldom ob7sorv