ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON MISSILE UNITS IN THE GROUP OF SOVIET FORCES, GERMANY (GSFG)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A030100440001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 12, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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I'4NFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORR
COUNTRY USSR/East Germany
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SUBJECT Additional Information on Missile
Units in the Group of Soviet
Forces, Germany (GSFG)
DATE OF Mid-1961, except paras 6 and 7
INFO. which are late 1961
PLACE &
DATE ACQ. USSR
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. PAGES
REFERENCES
/Z March 1963
2
RD
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Note: This information supplements
dated 7 March 1
1. The four missile brigades stationed with~,the GSFG in
East Germany are believed to have been there between 18 months
and two years, the first of them having arrived some two years
ago and the last about 18 months ago. One of the brigade
commanders is known to have been posted there in 1960. The
brigade he commands was there some time before his arrival
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2. The missile brigades have been inspected at least twice
during 1961 by Chief Marshal of Artillery Varentsov, who also
visited all artillery and army staff headquarters. During one of
these visits V,~rentsov met with Major-General of Artillery Kupin
in Dresden. In the late summer of 1961 Kupin was transferred to
the USSR as Artillery Commander of the Moscow Military District
.in place of Col. Genes Likhachev, on the latter's retirement.
3. The commander of a brigade of the type with the GSFG can
be either a colonel or a major general; if a colonel does particularly
well, he can be promoted to major general since the slot is for a
major general. At present two of the brigades are commanded by
colonels and two by major generals. There is a Deputy Brigade
Commander for Engineering Matters, and a battalion engineer for
each battalion who is responsible for storage, maintenance, and
operational readiness of the missiles. In this connection, there
is an overall shortage of trained technical personnel.
4. One of the brigades with the GSFG has two missile units
of fire, one in readiness with the units, the second in the brigade
rear area. Four units of fire are allotted for its initial mission,
although in fact there should be twelve in all, echeloned back in
depth for several hundred kilometers. The units do not have nuclear
warheads; these are stored under the command of the Artillery
Directorate of the Group of Forces.
5. Because the existing supply dumps for artillery,in the
GSFG were not adequate for storing missiles, larger protective
storage structures had to be erected; these are both higher and
longer than the normal structures and can be spotted easily as
they are difficult to camouflage. According to one officer, leaks
which were discovered when fueling the missiles had been caused
by "sabotage" by West German "diversionists".
6. The FPN of Colonel Khoroshilov, Chief of Stafe at Artillery
Headquarters, GSFG, under Kupin until the latter's transfer, is
14039-
7- Colonel-General Frolov, present Commander of Artillery of
the GSFG, is to be replaced by Colonel-General Pvrskiv or Lieutenant-
General Khodakovskiy.
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