SOVIET OB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700680007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATAN
COUNTRY East Germany REPORT NO. 25X1 A
SUBJECT Soviet OB Summary DATE DISTR. 10 July 1953
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1. At 2 P.M. on 7 July, 12 guns with a caliber of about 80 mm., four 57 mm
AT guns, 22 trucks and personnel wearing red-bordered black epaulets with
3. The construction of barracks in the Vogelsang area is being continued.
4. At 12:30 A. M. On 6 July, 15 x 120 mm mortars, 35 motor vehicles and
personnel wearing red-bordered black epaulets were unloaded at the
artillery insignia were entrained at the Pankow railroad station. Tanks
were also loaded at the Lichtenberg, Adlershof and the Schoeneweide
railroad stations.
The military posts in Riesa, Oschatz and Grimma were again occupied to
capacity between 22 June and 2 July.
Dallgow-Doeberitz railroad. station. The motor vehicle
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identified as belonging to the 29LLth Mortar Regiment of the 1st Mechan-
ized Division. 1
r. On 7 July, double sentries wearing red-bordered black epaulets, posted
about 50 meters apart, were seen at Pankow, Buergerpark, A.rnswalder
Flats and at the intersection of Dimitroff Strasse and Kniprode Strasse
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in Berlin. On the ,.same day, troops
69 Ten IL-28's from another airfield landed at Werrneuchen airfield at
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12th Guards Tank Division were encamped in a wood patch west of Buch,
northeast of Berlin.
about 9 A. W. on 29 June. At 6 P. M. on the s ame day, no IL-28's
were observed on the field. Two to three trains loaded with trucks,
equipment and large fuel containers left Werneuchen on eachdiay be-
tween 29 June and 4 July.
Ten IL-28's landed at Finsterwalde airfield between 9 A. M,M. and 3 P. A.
on 28 June. Forty-two IL-28's were observed there on both 28 - 30 June.2
Comments.
1. The same unit was reported to have been entrained at Dallgow-
Doeberitz on 3 July. It is believed that these troops had gone to
Jueterbog for the usual firing practice.
2. According to available information, the bomber units and the air
reconnaissance units was transferred to Finsterwalde. The field had
previously been occupied by one bomber regiment with about 20 IL-28's.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATON
COUNTRY Poland
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
10 July 1953
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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1. On 1 July a return rLm from Brest operated only at night and without orders
from the Brest railroad station. All orders of the Polish railroad pilot
had to be strictly observed.
2. While passing through Warsaw on 2 July, a Polish pilot stated that martial
General Unrest and Disruption of Rail
Traffic
of bridges had been blasted by the underground in the Poznan areas
On 6 July railway personnel of a Frankfurt/Oder-Berlin train stated that
riots had occurred on the Polish side of Frankfurt/Oder (Slubice) on
5 July* Firing was heard and railroad traffic was disrupted.
law had been proclaimed in Warsaw.
During the night of 3 July the Polish railroad pilot stated that a number
5. On 6 July a brigade engineer reported that reparation deliveries were
being loaded in Szczecin (Stettin) Harbor because railroad traffic
through Poland was interru.pted.l
C mm2 is All Soviet passenger and freight trains passing through
o an have.German engineers who are organized into locomotive brigades
and/or columns. While travelling in Poland they are accompanied by
Polish railroad pilots whose orders must be observed.
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