RUSSIAN FORCES AND INSTALLATIONS AT ROSTOCK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600090011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 27, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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ELLIGENCE GROUP
E#CE REPORT
COUNTRY ermany (Russia Zone
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1. Present Russian strength at Rostock is 1,004) to 1000 men,. billeted at the
former Adolf Hitler Barvacks and the Artillery Barracks. Two other barracks
in the town .have been cleared of troops.
2.. In the grounds of the Art.Ilery Barracks approximately sixty tanks are
parked. They are an improved type of T--34, and are termed T-42, T-43 or
T-44.
The 8v?erage age of troops a-,; Rostock i5; seventeen to t'eonty-one years f1
Ma of them appear to be ra,v recruits,,, only the noncoria'ai.ssioned officer:
have a proper military bearirg.
In general the uniforms of thn men are noticeably, shabby arid worn : a
will, turned out soldier is rarely seen. Uora le is low and the desertica
rate high. The MtVD, assisted by the E:::::]poliace, makes frequera, rak- is
for deserters, The civilian population has been sternly warned of th
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On 1.7 January 1-9447 a railway t 'ain left , oatock with th9
the improved tyke of T-34.
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6., There is an Officera& School in the former Adolf Hitler Barracks. eased upon
observations of changea is officer personnel,, it., is assumed that ;hs courses
last from six to eight a?cs,.
7-, Besides the soldiers noted atove, there are about 700 marines in t to is
Accordir to locaal r?nor,, all soldiers are to be withdrawn and rep1a?.ced q
5, 000 naval pers onnel .
The camp of Vlassoy now is cleared of internees. AU inmates were shipped
by rail to Russia in mast-Docember? 1946.
9., The political corabrc nda ct of Rostock is -4 liajor is srov, who has M
in the same house the i' i- on the Stephanstrasse,
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DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
Auth: DDA_rR7G. 77/1763----_
Date:2O/4/P11
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