MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DRESDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200180006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC- M its.rv Informatian From Dresden
EVALUAT1Cld
DATE OF CONTE
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
EPARED 19 January ., 1953
PAGES 4 -ENCLOSURES (140. &'TYPE)
REMARKS
la On 10 December 1952, the former 101st Grenadier Regiment Kaserne,on the
northeast side of Kurt Fischer JUles, was occupied by an army headquarters
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and a guard detail which was exchanged at irregular intervals.. About 40 25X1
percent of the windows of the barracks buildings were lighted after night-
fall F "O 1 to 10 December, main]- offiec rs of various branches of .sir-
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2. On 10 December, the Luftnachrichtersaserne of the east side of Alter Post-
weg, Nickern, was occupied by about 1,500 troops wearing red-bordered black
epaulets,, some i.,rith artillery and the others with motor transport insignia.,
About 80 percent of the windows.of the main building were lighted at due c.
From 1 to 10 December, intensive combat practice was held in the training
area. No other heavy we4pons than the AT and field gins observed resi .ously
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3. On 10 December, the Adolf Hitler Kaserne south of Kurt Fischer Allee was
occupied b-Y a signal unit with black-bordered black epaulets. About 50
buildings were lighted at dusk.
4. On 1.0 December, the Bucher Kaserne, east of Marien Allee, was occupied
by about 250 troops wearing black.-bordered crimson e- tlets. The leveling
of the barracks 7n rd was still under wa
5. On 10 December, the AAA emplacements in the damaged area of the former
101st Grenadier Regiment Kaserne, northeast of Kurt Fischer Alee, was
occupied by about 60 troops. Sentries wore red-bordered black
amulets with artillery insignia. 'the roo -s were quartered in one of the
three buildings referred to as kost-ondatura. About 50 percent of the
barracks building were lighted at dusk. 25 I'lov^mber a '76-mm AA uti .
was in the emplacement.
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Leampl. an enginee ~'
battalion, possibly the 134th. Gds Engr Ba of the 11th Gds Tank Div
which has been carried in the barracks inste..l1ation In Uebigau has been
stationed in the 88 Kaserne Wilder Mann since late October,?
This assumption is not confirmed by i.nfor-
ma on con 9, no in paragraphs 10 and 14 of ;yresent report.
ln. he 7th Gds Hv Tank 8?
Refit of the llth G's Tank Div and a reps r sbop are carried in the
Koenig Georg Kaserne,
11. La . t. la unit
stationed in the Dachrichten Kaserne in Uebigau had left. It was therefore
concluded that the uni. enti.fled engineer regirien't of the First Gds i'llecz
Army was retransferred to its en np aintlnz site at Muehiberg,, north
west of Riesa, This assumption is strength< ned
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his A,.?A. emplacement was known previously,,
G A The Pol:izei Kagorne: in Hellerau was occupied by a unit,
probably of recruits end a hospital ik the 4 rirater of 1951/:1952. Since
April 1952, the installation had been occupied by only a guard detail
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