SOVIET TROOPS IN NEUSTRELITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800600007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Soviet Troons In Neustr:el tz
EVALUATION._._i
DATE OF CONTE
DATE OBTAINE
REFERENCES-
nATc pprpAP! n 3 January 19
PAGES? _ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
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strasse, Noustrelitz (N 54/U 54), was occupied by about 500 troops
7 Iovember 1950, the Alte Grenadier Kaserne on Ernst Thaeimann-
wearing red-bordered black epaulets,, Thirty officers and 240 ELI
were seen marchin into the installation that day,, TTo motor traf-
fic was noticed,, (1)
2,, The Neue Infanterie Kaserne on Penzliner Chaussee quartered about
3,000 troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets. On 7 Fovember,
'0 officers and about 650 En, were seen at a wreath-laying ceremony50X1-HUM
in the market square of Neustrelitz, When the troops departed,
6co officers and about 400 men left toward the LIeue Infanterie Kaserrie
and 30 officers and about 250 :yen toward the German motion picture
theater
About a thousand troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets were
stationed in the restricted area on Glambeck Lake, Following a 50X1-HUM
vzr.=eat -laying ceremony on 7 T?ovember, about 100 officers and 700
E' were observed to march into the restricted area.
4z. About 400 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets were quartered
in the restricted area of Schlossgarten,,
Two ammunition sheds were under
construction beside the two ammunition sheds previously observed in
Schlossaartenv Two sentries were seen for the first time at the 50X1-HUM
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About 200 troo;'s wearing red-bordered black a aulets were quartered
in the restricted area of Tier;arten0 Truck ,was identified
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6, About 300 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets were billeted
in houses on 1irschenalleeo Twenty officers and 200 ],' were seen
leaving the billets on 7 November to attend a ^wreath-laying
ceremony0 (3)
CLASSIFICATION
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
CONFIDENTIAL
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CONFIDENTIAL
S OFFICIALS
7. On 25 November 1950, the Infanterie Kaserne, or Douaumont
Kaserne, still seemed to be only partly occupied. About 40
percent of the barracks windows were lighted that night. Trucks,
whose numbers could not be determined, were seen through the
doors of the first garage on Penziinerstrasse, just north of tnc5
billeting area, on 17 November. (2)
86 Between 17 and 25 i ovember, only little activity by military
personnel was observed in the Adolf Hitler Kaserne on Strelitzer?-
strasse in the daytime. Not more than 40 percent of the barracks
windows were lighted in the evenings, No motor traffic was noted?
About 30 officers with black service color were observed at the
railroad station at about 9 p.,m. on 21 Poven,ber., (4)
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aat y was also Occupied to capacity in mi -f:Tovember y
I Iew-e- d
(3) The other barracks installations in Neustrelitz seemed to be occum
}pied to capacity in mid-14ovember,
(4, most of the elements of the 9th Gds Tank
Div were at the post in mid