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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500370008-7
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• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,11.1tary :Inf'orn?ation from Rostock
EVALUATIOf
DATE OF CONT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES,.
PAGES 2 _, ENCLOSURES
REMARKS....
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CLASSIFICATION SECRK'
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DATE PREPARED, 5 Felaruaarv, 1953
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1. From 29 December 1952 to 14 January 1953, the :''utlitz- Kaserne on Yemelor
Strasse in Rostock was occupied to ca,.city by an estimated 1,200 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black-epaulets including 'some with artillery insignia,
The barracks buildings were ?30 percent and the headquarters building was
about 50 percelrnt lighted at dusk. On 31 December, about 30 soldiers were
seen practicing without weapons,, P -n officer and 60 soldiers practiced on
six :57--mm AT guns. Between 4 axed 5 p.m. on .7 January, about 500 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets were seen drilling. One 100-yam AT
gun was noticed. On 13 January, coupling coupling of four 76.2-mn
AT guns to trucks observed at the Noun RAnythohn
training field.. Th . ces were inspected
was " puary, five trucks
towing gure which were AT guns
were seen at the training area. The gums were a .ng used for service of
the pi nice drill.
Prior ta' 14 'raanuary, the barracks installation on Ulrnen Strasse was
occupied to capacity by an estimated 2,2O `soldiers, About 500 of then
were marines, the . others wore red-bordered black, black-bordered black
and black-bordered crimson epaulets. The barracks buildings were about
80 percent lighted at dusk, There was much activity in the installation
duriw the e
do rotor e?eliic3.ee
were seen dr5_va_no
The settlement on Thuenen Strasse is boundd by Detharding Strasse,
Ern' `'I lemann Strasse (formerly Skagerrak Strasse)., Thuenen St;rasse
noticed on Heidenn=n Strasse, Radio truck I land truck
were seen there. Numerous$other motor vehic es
were seen in the area of the settlement.
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On 29 Decen'ber? about 100 unarmed soldiers organized into groups
received basic training in the Putlitz Kaserne.. About 130 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaule c,s and carrying carbines and submachine
guns were observed leaving the installation toward the Ronnbahn (race
track) At 11:30 abr:, on 23 Deccirber, about 160 soldiers received
training on eight 10O-ran AT gins and about 90 soldiers on seven 57..
AT guns. On 5 January, about 70 soldiers received training on nine
57- rare AT guns and about 140 soldiers on six 100-M. AT s , Four
57-min AT auns were d at a garage. Motor vehicles
ware seen driving to the installation,.
5. On 1.0 and 11 January, the Putlitz Kaserne was occupied to capacity by
soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets including some with AT
artillery insignia on the upper left sleeve. About 2 p.m, on 11 January,.
16 soldiers were engaged in airing practices w
th two 100 nra AT
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25X1 About 3::30 pa., about 10 officers and 80 soldiers armed 1..r4th carbines
and carrying field packs, blankets, entrenching tools and sacks and,
25X1 in a number of instances, baggage lined up. After laying down their
equipment, the soldiers ran to the garages upon the corsmaand of an
officer who tined them with a watch. The soldiers hauled 12 trucks and
25X1 1.2 AT guns from a shed which sheltered about 20 trucks and about 20 AT
guns. The first of the trucks left the installation at 3:40-.p?m.., towing
25X1 an AT gun and carrying an office,,:- and six soldiers along with the
equipraent and baggage they had laid down. All the twelve trucks had
left the installation at about 4 r. m. Tha AT mans had a a-1411, .,4' 7?~, ,.
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On 10 and 11 Januery, the barracks installation on LJlmen Strasse w
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m.,erines. No training activity was observed.
l AICo ent,. Rrior to mid-January 1053, the barracks installation on
~Jlnien Strasse and the Putlitz Kasernze were ' ccupied by units of
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had already indicated that the settlement on Thuenen &Le vg?n nnminjoA
by an 11GB unit or an SOC unit
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