MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE TANGERHUETTE-BITTKAU TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013800170012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Fi~ilitary Information from the Tanaz?rhuott Bltttkau Train: n tArea .~E...!
DATE PREPAR 19 -August 1952
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on four pontoons moored in the river was being dismounted. The
place was vacant when source returned on the following morning.
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)_,
1, On 10 and 11 July 1952, a command post exercise was held in the area
of Grieben Of,, 53/y 63) 9 The officers and personnel involved left the
area toward Tangerhuette during the night of 11 Ju1;7. 25X1
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2. At 3 p.m. on 26 July, 1 officer and about 30 soldiers wearing
black epaulets were seen near Polte on the be Rivera Twenty
steel pontoons lay on the shore. A heavy pile driver mounted
3.
On 14 July, the area of Jerichow, Kiitynick, Ferohland, Medeich
as far as Parey locks Neuderben, Parey and tluesen was unoccupied,
Nor was there any training activity on the opposite bank of the
Elbe River. Between 10 and 15 individual aoldlers wearing blaok=
bordered crimson epaulets were seen in Jerichow. Between 25 and
30 pontoon' lying, in two groups each guarded by a sentry, were
seen on the a.be River bank about 300 meters southeast of Polte
on 15 July, The pontoons were all the same type, each about 5 meters
long, about 2,30 meters wide and about 1,20 meters high, with a
raking stem and a square stern, the engineers 25X1
practiced chiefly in the area of the river bend between Polte and
Sendfurth. Fingineer practices were continuously held there in the
summer of 1951. Temporary bridges were repeatedly built and
disassembled there, but no bridge has been built this year.
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tgineers had, occasio;lally practiced with pontoona stored there.
They built ferr1 eso These engineers, wee quartered in Jai ttk