SOVIET MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE EISENSTADT AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014500120006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Al.strta
SUBJECT '.oviet Military Activity in the
Eisenstadt Area
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One Soviet company underwent daily close combat training between
21 and 26 July 1952 in the area north Of the ammunition depot
between Isenstadt and Sch{ttzen am Gebirge r.
I levery day between 21 and 26
ULA.Ly g to ergar en via St Georgen. Small arms fire was
heard from the Tiergarten area. A forest fire broke out on. 23
July The Tiergarten area is surrounded by a stone wall; et sentry
is posted at the Osliper gate?
a: A military. rail transport left the Eisenstadt railroad station in
the direction of Neus iedi on 29 July. The train was made up of
seven closed freight cars carryin,- ~,iilitaryy personnel with bordeaux--
red service colors. one oassen -:er eqr f c,r nfi'f (Iero, v .,,,a ,,~v ral
.lit ears loaded with 13 trucks and two antitank Tun Lincln
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A column of 15 trucks drove through Eisenstadt toward the railroad
.~vritin on the ni-rht of 22 ,4urust., Each truck pulled an ,antitank
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The civilian te.lephonee line b .weer Eisenstadt and Neusiedl was
cut off by the Uoviets on ).9 Au,rust rd traff-te had not been re-
sumed on 28 August
7t, One t7-2 plane coming from the direction of Neusiedi and flying in
the direction of ~;iener- eustadt, passes over Eisenstadt daily at
0530 hours and returns at 073 h
ours
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8., A Soviet feright train was unloaded at the Eisenstadt railroad
station on the moriing of 26 Augusta The. following details were
established:
a;, Four self-propelled guns with six bogie wheels, idler
and drive sprocket, antennas, and barrels without'
muzzle brakes; one officer standing in the commanderls
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turret wore hordeaux-red service colors,,
be Four heavy mortars drawn by trucks; one of the trucks
had
c.. Four antitank guns drawn by Studebaker trucks, three of
These trucks carried soldiers wearing bordeaux-red
service colors,
d,, Several trucks, among them
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ZIS, towing a field kitchen bearing the
the driver, wore Bordeaux-red
service colors
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The gymnasium of the Eisenstadt high school is presently being
converted into a military bakery. The heavily damaged Kattne?r
and Rheinland housing :;ro ects which are not used but =guarded by
the Soviets, are under repair; the costs have to be paid from
Austrian public funds. Construction is being done by the A. Porr
Baugesellschaft, a USIA enterprise,
i0., Gonerally, only soldiers of a young age class are seen in Eisen-
stadt. A local gendarme on requesting the personal documents of
a Soviet enlisted man, learned that subject was born in 1933,
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I were noted in Eisenstadt between
July and August:
truck carrying five civilian passengers
truck arriving from the direct-on of Schfitzen am
Geb .rge with 30 enlisted men wearing black-red
service colors
truck arriving from the direotlon of Schltzen am
Gebirge with 30 enlisted men wearing black-red
service colors
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motorcycle with side car
jeep parked in front of the Soviet Komendaturs
truck
truck
truck drawing an antitank gun; the driver wore
Bordeaux-red service colors;
sedan
jeep, driver with bordeaux-red service colors
sedan
truck belonging to the driving school
truck, driver with borddaux-red service colors,
truck, driver with bordeaux-red service colors
U.S. type truck belonging to the driving school
F truck, driver with black-red service colors
truck belonging to the
wore black-red service
insignia
truck be long; ing to the
wore black-red service
insignia
truck belonging to the
wore black-red service
truck; the. driver wore
truck; the driver wore
driving school; the driver
colors and motor transport
driving school; the driver
colors and motor transport
driving school; the driver
colors
bordeaux red service colors
bordeaux-tired service colors
truck, driver with black-red service colors
jeep, driver with black-red service colors
sedan
ZIS truck driving in the direction of Vienna;
the driver wore bordeaux-gyred service colors
truck with airforce driver and ten officer
passengers
a truck converted into a bus: one officer
passenger wearing black-red service colors
Ford truck 3
struck belonging to the driving school; driver
ith black-red service colors
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ZIS trucks driver with bordeaux-red service
colors
Y Studebaker truck belonging to the driving
school
3-axled truck, U,..S- type; the driver wore black
red service colors
jeep
ZIS truck
T 7,IS truck, empty
jeep, driver with bordeaux red service colors
T ZIS truck, parked at Landhaus
truck, driver with bordeaux-red service colors
Studebaker truck, driver with bordeaux-'red service
colors
Studebaker truck, driver with bordeaux.red service
colors
Studebaker truck!, driver with bordeaux-red service
colors
Ford truck, driver with bordeaux-red service
colors
Studebaker truck, driver with bordeauxc-red
service colors
Studebaker truck
jeep, driver with bordeaux-red service colors
truck carrying enlisted men, driver with
bordeaux-red service colors
jeep, driver with bordeaux-red service colors-
truck belonging to the driving school
tank truck
jeep, driver with black-red service colors
jeep
truck,, driver with bordeaux-red service colors
Russian-type truck, driver with bordeaux-red
service colors
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edly heardn Wf,~a;.-
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may possibly be-
long to a radio station 102 miles north of Stinkenbrunn,9
a village loo,ated five miles west of Eisenstadt.
was previously report-
jeep seen n osterneuburg on 4 April 1952
and in Vienna on 15 July 1952
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