MILITARY INFORMATION FROM POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100830011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, On 28 May 1951, a German female kitchen helper employed at
the Kriegsschule in Potsdam (N 53/Z 63) said that tll.ree? month
officer training courses were being conducted there.. The
tr,- inees were organized into instruction groups of lieutenants,
senior lieutenants, captains and field-grade of ?a ce} s . There
were about 200 officers in each instruction group. The Kr?iegs
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kitchen helper sty tt : t~i=at the on icers mess t,4rere c:ver_ ,;Q
2. "On 23 Lays the former Eta quarters of the Adolf Hitler Kaserne
housed a high-echelon headquarters. Except .fo-z- small sectionF"
used for the storage of army supplies, the :he adqu.arteer:?s
buildings of t,ne -3 n.st .ll.at_LUn v~?ere destroyed, k. German f erg ).e
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200 officers of the headqua.rter's;
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3 ., On 31 i.aayy, about 200 rec:ru?Lts v;ere seen in the yard. of the
northern sect.in of the Delius KaserAne. ~\\ priiie rover te)v:i
a 152-mm gun left the installation. Soldiers _,ra .cticed with
another 152x-mm gun in the area orposite the barracks
nst ll.ati c?n. Sentries in the snuthern bar,: a