MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE BABELSBERG RESTRICTED AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012800250009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. labile in the 3abelsberg restricted area near Potsdam (N 5naa 63) source determined
that preparations for a transfer bege, an the restricted Estee on 25 1.-sy 19520 Source
learned that all Soviet women who had been employed in thc restricted area and all
dependent e -woad be sent back to the ' nn,S.R. Beginning 2( nay: troops left the
restricted. arca by day and night by rsie shipments and tmck colemns. All offices
in the reetricted area and in Adolf Ta-aer Kaserne on napeel Mee, Potsdam, were
being transferred to the Wuensdorf?Zo :;en (N 53/Z 91) am- where they were allegedly
to move into the underground installaens of the former 'narrecat headquarters
near Zosson. Source believed that the t'ansfer had been re ,e in erest haste as
there was mach confusion. German emel .7)es received order, to gc to naensdorf to
prepare quarters but there were no dieeetives as to =ere eupple.offieee were to
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used for tho transfer. Unconfirmed ru stated that the restri2tea area would be
occupied by Volkspolizei offices. ler at workers discnargea at inle adolf Hitler
Kaserne on Pappol Allee believed that ate installation 110.1 be reoccupied by
military lance, Aleksandrovski (nn) supply officer ie ;uonedorf, and his
office were moving to Jueterbog (N 52, C 69) ? Altos Lager, aorth of the Jueterbog?
Treuenbrietzea road. ** Supply Officc; ajor Buguden (fnu:e, previously stationed
in Stahnsdorf (N 53/Z 73), and his ofain'e moved to an nnknoen dcetination.
2. On 20 Tfay,, Colonel Portnoy sup le officer of the a, ay in tho soviet Zone of
Germany, vas arrested at his desk and d,41orted to noscow, ellegenly on charges of
irregulareties. His place is taken ly Lieutenant Colonels ',",ukhikh (frau) and
Popoff (fnu).
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25)(1 fft is known thet tee headquarters an offices were transferred
by columns of the 56-tri Motor Trans Reet of the GOFG. The eetabliehment of the
headquarters of the 00FG in the underereund installation a the former nehrmacht
headquarters in Zossen probably depenas on the condition of the installation. The
reference report also contained vague iedications.that the Adolf Hitler naserne
would be occupied by Volkspolizei, It ie conceivable that the nehelabarg restricted
area, will no longer be occupied be Soviet offices because it is too close to the
Soviet zonal border. Colonel Portnoy aniu), mentioned in paraeraph 2, is known
from previous reports as chief of sueely and of the commercial department of the
GOFG in notsdayn One of his substitutes, Lieutenant-Colonel Zukhikh (fnu) probably
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is the Lieutenant Colonel A.P.Zukhil, chief of the personhel &ection of the
commercial department of the Sr.les who ie known from prevous reports.
Commentii, One Aloksandrovski (flu) without rank$ is known as chief of the
rade a ministration of the Third Grir Pirmr.?This ofAce ite?ll be moved to
Jueterbog along with the headquartor of the army.
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