SOVIET TROOPS IN WISMAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100490003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC... Soviet T'roors in fismar.~~..;_~
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E'JAL.UATION..,- --._-- -__-----.,..PLACE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTENT 6 April and 26 April to c; *:av 1951
SOURCE
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DATE PREPARED 27 June 1951
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1 a Prior to r j!ay 1951, the Flak Kaserne on Luobsche Strasso ismar (M 5l/T f ,9),
which is difficult to observe, was occupied by only about 900 infantry
troops and 400 to 500 artillery troops. On 26 April, a convoy of 1 personnel
carrier and 20 trucks, occupied by 300 to 350 infantrymen and tovrin; 4
artillery pieces of about 70 , entered the installation, having corA
from the direction of Schwerin,, Seventeen of the trucks were nunbered:
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Officers seen walking between the installation and the oficers& bt.?.3ets
opposi to the installation on 9 May included: 1 artillery colonel, 2 artillery
lieutenant colonels, 6 artillery majors, 2 infantry majors and nu serous
companyo--grade officers. Five platoons of about 30 infantrymen each sere seen
roturninr to the installation from the training area, and about 200 infan-
trymen and 80 artillerymen were drilling in the billeting area.. A radar
set with ears, connected by a cable to a truck, was seen in the southeastern
corner of the billeting area:. Vehicles observed in barracks traffic were
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2 a About 1.00 meters southwest of the F?3..ac Kaserne there was a Dr- station i'i th. 25X1 C
four m oden sheds, Uir?ee of which housed Adcock I Vi Because - c bsenaed
soldiers walking; between the IF station and the barracks installatioon, he
concluded that the l station was occupied continual. y,,
3o Documents found at the barracks installation on 6 April and I irrcludeth
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a,, An envelope addressed to a soldier of Un t postnariced 26
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20 :'e=;ruary 1961,
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c. An envelope ad-'r. essed to a soldier of Unit
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b. An envelope addres:-ed to a soldier of Unit poste arked 211 January
1951, examined by Cc nsorshir Office , and z ilod from the
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Cornnent, The report stroncthens the belief that the Flak ;anerne
quarters t-?e 288th dads ??tz i ifle itn,-t and the 29th Gcls 01,,n I:rt;r ~~f wt of the
94t,: Cds t'tz Rifle Div. The streni; t~~ estimates 25X1 A
given in the present are he o t:^.e T 0 stronz