SOVIET TANK REPAIR SHOP AT KIRCHOMOESER-WEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900100005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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PACES-, EN LOSURES (NO. & TYPE),
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Between 21 October and 3 Novel mbsr 1951 - 5J tanks ? apparen I.iy
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and about 10 other truc'Cks,
Soviet Tank liepair Shop at Kirc ~tftceser..,6r s
type t S-1112 were parked in the open on, he ;remises of ene
Soviet tan:, repair steep at .i"rchmoesor 4J st, Sixteen more tanks
of the same type were in the former 1nt:omotive shed, Three or
four tanks left the shed daily between 21 and 235 October,pr occeditii
tow rd the open country and returning; in the evening.
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no entraining or detraining, of tanks during tnro tir:e
of observation, probably aau;to_o! by the unfinished status of the
ramp and. the par. an -Lot_
Before being overhauled, the tanks were dIee.sset~,hl down to -xles
and hall. The hulls were nou ntcd on wooden- blocks _ un t E ;.a on rails U
After hei x overhav l ed , the tanks ;-ere -;reassembled in the mair.
hall. Spare parts tterd manufactured i ti"!e work shojis. `tZ us
large stocks of bof,jIe .,,heels nci axlos were ava.ilable. T 1e 4.tarni' t
shop i : the r_a in a t~2as pray .tee with not yells than 20 lathy s ?
4. The personnel at the tank reps it shop is estintated ,at# about
19000 non, The work shop comp&n y was equip ~,ed rc;~th 3 trucks
mounting a ho3stin g are 1 tank h s is menu t g a ho ,st ng geai
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'Ung, The in.-for: ation confirms the soviet tank repair shop,
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plant at a:irchmoeser anti l early Ilo;t-et .}.per 1951. It herong to the
123d Central Tank Repair Shop of 4he GOO, in
~.Auellrose and -iirchmocsera 25X1C
25X1A iloports on r all 1.o"Gemc$ntss indicstod that,- there is an
increase in the supply of spare parts uiscerhibie . L, tires ent.. .'or
instance, there were about 70 boxcarloads of snare parts I1stcd : n
September 1951.
25X1* "gcaTi it... The _riotor vehicles belong to the G0FG and to the
7th Gds Tank uiv of the Third Gds ',iecz Arrmya .
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