SOVIET TROOPS IN MEISSEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700320008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On 13 L Jar..uar; 1252, '.~e Larrav ~'~s in ,,
t ?_:?_>ist.all.~_t ..car. Mi,.~r. .,za*.-: (:. 52/F 09),. raoi^n:itzsch9
on the w%st .side of o 101, vas occ a sec' b troops ;:ho acre red-? arderecl
black opal, lets, usually >:ith tank i.n i-nia. Local residents said that the troops
there riu.:~bcred bout 2 ,O0O. On the occasion of a field exercise several days
prior to 13 Janucry, about 50 heavy tarJ,s r1oii_n, through ' ohnitzsch6
Three tail's r our, tir_?, C:~-,w:-? zurts and 1 half-track arnorecE personnel carrier were
seen in tno billeting area.
2, .C:n 13 Ufa 'iara'J the tank repair shop on '=oethestrasse
corsi tec of 3 large :forks?'_op buildings and 1 ;iiardhouse, but apparently con-
tained no facilities. is hialf-track aruored personnel carrier mounting
a 2O?.irri r,;un was seen standing hes-idy the guardhouse; ni r Brous "..on wearing
coveralls and of ficors were observed in front of the ,..-:,.rkshops. A local resi-
dent said tanks drove.a froi!i the ?hop to the r;:li_1road station and were loaded for
shipuont a.Lnost ever:! day. *
II~;nri_eret~ the observation of rued?-um tanks indicate
that the Farrar.?:.s i:-:e -talla.tioo, in B hn_-tzsch still uarterar:ci the 95th Tank i'e ?t
of the 9th Tank Div ifaich nnas last coofirrec ien ' eissen on 25 Oeto
ber ithe, esti::,c ted. n r.ber of troops specified 'f_I1 cis present report
is too high to const:i tVz, t' Io persora-el of one re The 5 Cth Tank icraair
r_ anc:/or the 6th Crcrance Bn of the First Cds "acz Jkri ny are carried in the tank
repair shop on acct?.i6jtrassc in tote :,erou";n of .'c