MILITARY INFORMATION FROM NEUSTRELITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012700080001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Russian Zone)
Military Information from Nenstrelitz
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THIS 00CUlli ENT CONTAINS INFOROATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEPEND
or THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE NEADIFIG OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 791
LED 794. Or 'MR 0 S. CODS. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL.
AMON OW ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHOLIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF This FORA IS PROHIBITED,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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rays the restricted area on Gerhart '!auptriann ntrassel ::eustrelitz (1.; 5)4/u 54-
Cluartered--about, 2-,0 troops who wore red-berdered black eeaulets with artillery
I , -.11181-13VIP' ,On vpb out 70 soldiers were enga.7ed in physical exercises, while
r.1-1413aeeoldirIss"?ardheM:ilto ?the restricted area from their quarters on Dr. Kuelz-
stresse? Troops practiced TYring with tto 122-7 field howitzers, 25 soldiers
were at combat firing- --with r1l4les, and 20 sclp.i.vs were instructed in the' handling
of a snbnachine ..Tricenty4Ave1.014).er6 practiced "ar'f..entation in the
terrein by mans? !. On 6r.'.ay, -12 srldiers pradticed.*ith a
d;e1.-472-? 7.."=4.27-71e field 25. other _sOldiers- practiced orientation in the
terrain by means Of prismatic Ceinbass. On-t nay, -about? 35 seld,iers received in-
struction on five 122-mm -.1.*id libuitzers in a"ront of a low temporary barracks
Tren;-S'prattio-edIiirine? with a 122-nr. field howitzer on the terve;
range. Twenty soldiers were instructed on two telescopic sights. On 6 !:ay, the
restricted area on Fritz -ieuter '.transe was occueied by about 200 troops, including
soldiers with black-bordered black epaulets with signal insignia. No ',--roues,
of 32 and Lie ren respectively, equipped with rifles, marched into the restricted
area. A groups of 1 soldiers wearing black-bordered black epaulets with signal
insirnia and equirped with field telephones left the billeting area. 50X1-HUM
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. 2. On 7 :'ay, a group of 60 soldiers wearin red-bordered black epaulets with tank
insignia and equirped writ.h entrenching tools marched out of the Leue Infanterie
Easerne on Penzliner Chaussee. Twenty-eight soldiers with red-bordered black
epaulets 7,racticed with subeachine runs on the Tannonhof drill grounds. Two tanks
with t'e turret and SP gun were also seen there. About
3C' soldiers marched from the barracks instnllation into the wooded area of Glam-
beck Forest where a tent camp was situated. a heaCquarters
with a radio station was in the tent cam-. A telephone line ran fror te tentr
to 7,alter Ulbricht Stress?. 500 young soldier e-
tween 16 and 19 years of age rem unloaded at about 6:30 a.m. on 7 -av ne-- 4-'--
woods. Vehicles identified near the ::eee Infanterie Zaserne 50X1-HUM
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3. On 9 ray, several ereups of Officers asseebled at the Soviet memorial on t0X1UM
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market square. A speech vas riven by a colonel.
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4. on 30 April, the kite 1.,renadier 1,aserne Ctrelitzerstrasse quartered troops
wearinr red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia. Ten soldiers wearing
red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insii-:nia uarched out of the installation.
Other soldiers cleaned 10 mortars ' in rifle drill
a:6 physical exercises. Vehicles were identi-
fied. *
Caliber
model 1944 7:5?mm tank gun
u2 MM
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:'uzzle velocity of the armor- 792 meters per second
piercim7 shell of model BR 365 meters
star shell model TR 365 K
'Fragmentation shell ,odel 0 365
Shell with tire fuze model 0 365
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;;eif,htof armor-piercing shell and star shell
eirht of fragmentation shell
-aximum nressure of ex2loding charre
Len7th of barrel
Lng.-th of grooved section of the barrel
Da-ber of -rooves
Length of grooves
Anple of slone of ;rooves
D.uadrant anrle of elevation
Lar-est angle of slope
flxtent of traverse
Thrnal lenr-th o. recoil
7ronFure of recu7erator
Ar-ount cf 'laid in the r.cuperator
P.mr'unt cf fluid in the recoil brake with
compensator
9.2 kg
9.6 kg
215C5k for 1.
cm2
4,645 mm
3,465 mm
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25 caliber
from 70 to 90
5?
360?
' 210 to 320 mm
34 to 37 otmosrheres
3.15 liters
3.25 liters
Aount of fluie, in.thn recoil brake without 3.65 liters
comr,ensator
Might of the gun barrel with recoil brake 1,160 1/c
ars! recurerator without armor
7:eight of recoil parts. 900 kg.
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the f5-mr, tan:c run model 1944 is instal:L(50m -HUM
in th,. T-3);/f.5 tank torrcther with nodels DT and DT!' -achine tuns. "if",* equipment
nodel ch-15 or ch-1( is used.
6. Prior to 2C April, no field exercises were conducted in the area of Roebell
west of 1".eustrelitz.
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* Comment. ::eustrelitz military post vas 50X1-HUM
still occupied to capacity by com7onents of the 9th Cds Tank IAN until the ber:i nr9Yr,A "lu'v'
of !'ay 1952. The occupation of th,-. individual nilitary installati.ons krees with
previous informati on. The tent carp near the post pre-
sumably in a traininr bivouac of- an element from the Ieue Tnfanterie Kaserne. The
shiment of allecedly younc soldiers, cannot be thterpreted as no information re-
lative to recruit shipments from the T.F.%. .-as. been obtained to date.
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