SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS TO THE POTSDAM AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012700220004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Sovt Trcon Movements to the Potsd.am Area
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The I,Indnusrters nersonnel had been ordered to pr pa e .or
the move.
Beginning at 2 p.m. on. 27 nay, 45 boxcars vere loaded vith
ecitail)ment at the Wildpark railroad. station. The equinment
? the 1Crisp:sschu1e Potsdam and was hauled by vehicles
At 2 p.m. on 2.0 May, anotncr
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was Loaaea in.tn equipment.. vun_cles observed
Beginning on 25 Tay, there vas a continuous arrival of ?tru '.r.
convoys, carrying billeting equipment, at the barracks ins al
1..a1dpar;c. West from the direction of Langebruecke. The
convoy's observed
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Some of the loaded vehicles were parked in the barracks in t1 la-
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_t_t_tgolual? The observations mentioned in the present -ep..)rt
clearly agree with the assumption contained in a previous reeort
that at least elements of the GOFG would be moved from PotsOlm.
a troop train was dispatc
irom wilaparx to 4ossen on e( Lay 1952, and therefore it
certain that the movements mentioned in paragraphs 1 and
present report were from Potsdam to the ,;uansdorf-Zossen
Reports of an extensive resrouping in the same area furth
sa stantiate these conclusions. ilfter the barracks instal
at Wuensdorf are vacated, the Hq GOFG, which has been sta
in the Dabelsberg restricted area since 1945, will find a
accommodations in Wuensdorf also. It is undetermined if a
sections of this headquarters, particularly the Hq of the
of Rear Services in the Adolf _Hitler Kaserne, will be aff
by this move. Only the loading of offices from the Nriegs
Bornstedt4 could be observed thus far. The officers cours
the GOFG, which were previously quartered in the Hindenba
atW nsdorf, are believed to move into the Kriegsschuie
googatt. All truck convoys belong to the 5oth 7Totor
of the GeFG which has been previously stationed in the Ca
Kaserne at Wuensdorf, the re
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quarters of the 56th Motor Trans Regt of the GOFG will be
in the Potsdam area. This assumption appears to be confir
present information. It remains to be seen, however, whet
barracks installation at ":iildpark West will be permanentl
by this reglment, as a brigade of the 34th Arty Div
previously stationed there.
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