MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE 'ALTENGRABOW-TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013800400005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION
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DATE OBTAINED--J
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ENCLOSURES (NO. & 1YPE)_
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12 x 122-mm artillery oiuces and trucks
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t?'he una left for Cane i 05@i1cru~ a
A train consisting of 2 boxcars and 1), flatcars with s4 dcraci-x-, ?yrryinr- an
undetermined number of trucks
Troop trains unloaded at the =-1-,engrabo.J (IT s;3/ 00) railroad station during the 25X1
period from 18 to 211 July 19;>2 included: i8 July. A train consisting of 11 boxcars and 1.9 flatcars with sideracks carrying
19 Jule A train consisting of 3 boxcars and flatcar: ratn sidoraeks carrying 25X1
~x 7.-mm AA ;mss and trucks 125X1
The unit departed to.aard Gimorr'annsteich (laho ? 25X1
20 Jul3rm A train consisting of 30 flatcars with sidle raciks and carx ring now unnm korod
trucks, coa:zin from I rest Litovsk, 41 train corzsi-tiri; of 10 boxcars and 35 flatcars
with sideracks, carrying 1 x 37--r i AA guns and trucks
A train. consis tiny of boxcars and 9 flatcars pith sideracks, carrying 10 heavy 25X1
machine guns and an. widoterninod number of trixcks
Me unit departed teward25X1
mennsteicha
A train consisting of 31 flatcars with sidetracks and 8 boxcars, carrying 12 x 37
AA guns and an undetermined number of truck
`jibe unit departed. toward Rosenkruga
24 u_ va train, consisting or .3 boxcars and 11 flatcars with sidera ;k , care vinrr
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3ype rocket launchers and trucks
BATE PREPARED ?".-.:'
The unit de ,arted toward i osenla-uc, 25X1
A train consisting of 12 flatcars with sideraciks Wd 3 boxcars carrying; 3 .13-ty: o
rocket launchers and trucks
ripe unit left toward
28 On 2 Julys, lloc.il ?c si clernts that,, d bring the precedin - -woks
units repeatedly left, and. new units arrived in Llten,rabo . )'hey included units
from Potsdam and -Zathenow,,,
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Cnx 24 July, the Nordla ger ,xia s occupied by COO to 1,00:) troops, Garin ; red-.
bordered black epaulets, ~rnpIacin and. displaco,rent of six 160-Lm morti..ars,
each with a crew of 5 to 6 an, was practiced at the training area op )osite
the campo Driving practice with two T-31L chassis with angular supers fructuras
following marked tracks was observed, At about noonp 30 colder d ear:in 25X1
black- ordered rid t t ,
.-Aa o s a,.1c. ojLluip x;ca WI VI s.rall arnis returned to the
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rom
Thirty heavy artiller' Pioces. incluc';in,- 10 x f.
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brakes, were seen at the gun parking lot in open sheds, About 80 to 100
trucks were seen in the southr,ac? t
section of th - camp, ;',xrrr;biia.g in a row,
Only individual soldiers were soon in t ho, ar -,uni.tioa depot and the fillirn ,
station of the ammunition depot. No -motor vehicles were seen, A Small camp
of lo:,, wooden au._L, dtn 's, a bout 14 km south of cross I,;aebars, ra; occu i od by 25X1
about 8 to 10 ;:ien only, who wore red-bored. rci black eaaul.etso .tor vehiclos
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Oom lento The unloading operations observed in, Altongrabow during the
eri.od m om 1 to 214 July 1952 are corrunented on as foli.oiws:
Jul ,, An artillery unit of the IV Art ~'orp,, probably of the 6th Arty Div
rom randenbuxg. he trucks probably belonged to, the
eighth Gds Arrl;r a ao Y u
19 July. An AAJ, unit of the Third Shock Ar;mr?
20 Ju , An AA. unit of the Eighth Gds Army; an A!, machine gun corn many,
probably of the 6th Ods Div, (US); and an 11 ;; unlit, possibly of the Fourth
Gds 1.Iecz Army,
24 Jul A rocket launcher unit -of the GOPG, probably of the 21th tL Brig
from Frermitz? and a rocket Launcher unit of the
Eighth OdF Ar,;
p3f Oor* en ;c 111(3 bull,, of the units occupying tnc Altongra oot firing run- consists of_ units of the Third Shock .iii" ,ay, the ut11 :..rty Div from - atiionow and
Brandenbur' any. t e 314th Arty Div (US) from Potsdan,, Some of these units were
rotated to the firing range and reneated.l r ea
., ~ ...a.cliangc4 their rear details at
their, postsO ',mall. units of other
e'rT;k3rl~r Y' c"i-Y'2rLie S 3?'1 ~ S'G;;rll,
,part. . ~,. a ',.rnc wag ' u Arryy and the Second Gds ,..ecz Aria
rotated eler.2ents for short-~tenn firing u r is also
" practices to the firing ran~,O tinlu.c'n, as
compared with a previous report, appears largely occup ad as previously. See
. The motor vehicles soon in the training area belonged to the
GOI{Is, the Third shock -drr:1y, the Eighth Gds Ar , the Third cis Locz Array and
the unide;ntjficdd artillery battalion of the 12th Gds Tank Divo
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