MILITARY INFORMATION FROM FUERSTENBERG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100810010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 7 June 1951, heavy traffic of motor vehicles and pedestrians, mostly high
ranking officers, orderlies and woven in uniform and civilian clothes, was
observed as usual at the restricted area on Roeblin Lake, Fuerstenberg (N 54/
U 62). The large buildings in the restricted area still had red flags on
their roofs. No changes iere noticed regarding the arrangement of telephone
lines. Officers observed walking to and iron the i;estrtcted area included
2 lieutenant colonels with tank insignia, 2 lieutenant colonels wearing red.
bordered black epaulets without branch-of-service insignia, 1 lieutenant
colonel with artillery insignia, 1 infantry lieutenant colonril, 1 lieutenant
colonel wearing black bordered black epaulets, 8 to 10 majors wearing red..
bordered black epaulets., 5 infantry majors, 1 lieutenant colonel with medical
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2, No charVe in the occupation of the restricted area on Baalenseestrasse in the
center of Fuerstenberg was noticed prior to 7 June,, r. .tries there wore red-
bordered black epaulets. Telephone lines from all military installations at
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The sound of work was heard from the tank re air show on the factory promises
on the southeastern perimeter of the city, and a tank chassis
stood in front of the tworkshopo The castle was still used as a hospital,,
The wwester?n section of the hutment near Ravcnsbrueck, which is between the
railroad line and the road from Fuerstenberg to Lychen, still quartered about
2000 troops with black borraered black epaulets and rec? bordered black epaulets
on 7 June? The ;sroges in the central 'section of the hutment were about 60
percent filled with trucks. The supply installation in the eastern section
war guarded by sentries. No activity was noticed,
On 7 Juno, trucks were being repaired in the repair shop opposite the western
gate of the so-called outer concentration camp on the north shore of Schvdt
Lake, The doors of the garage belonging to the repair shop were closed.
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1.,he quarters on the north side of the vest-east road billeted about 40 troops
yrh o wore red bordered black epaulets and ~lack. oorderod black epaulets with
signal insignia, The supply installation in the former sawmill in the ueste-rn
section of the outer concentration care was guarded by a detail of six
soldiers who wore rud-bordered black epaulets. There maa nc vehicular traffic.
;o guards were nc ticee. at the underground supply instalIation adjoining the
former sa. ill on the east. The long garage on the read to the southeast
eras filled :~ith trucks, Sentries there wore red-bordered black epaulets.
The officorse billets on the lake shore were occupied. Little traffic of
officers and EL was observed as usual.
6 The traffic to the so-called inner concentration camp on the northeast shore
of Schwedt Lake indicated that storage installations and workshops wore
located there. Movements to the camp area and ;naide it were very light.
New truck tire; were unloaded from four boxcars standing on the railroad's urc
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;.bout )O soldiers wearing red bordered black epaulets were seen erecting
wooden poles with cross beans and porcelain insulators, probably for a
telephone or a lighting circuity in the area north of the inner concentration
camp The line came from the direction of the hutment between the Fuersten-
berg?Lychen road and railroad line and ran toward the south. The villa on
top of the hill north of the point where the Fuerstenberg-Lychen road crosses
the railroad line was vacant, A radar set was previously seen at the villa.
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Comment,, The report indicates no essential change at the xuerstenwalde
~ .a y p6sf over a report of late February 1951
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