MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE LETZLING HEATH TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600110003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC _ 1Rilitary Information from LetzlinC Heath T ` Area
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DATE OF CONTEN
2, The it rovernent work on the barracks instal-'lotion south of UchtsprinCe was
conducted under the designation of "state oettlernent0" ? a.
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DATE OBTAINED- DATE PREPARED_ L "uGuis 1951
Bound at the i:orrner site of the teat camp
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25X1A Ooa unent0 On 13 June 1951, Soviet troops in a
eWY7can northwest of Salchau and identified primarily of the
25X1 A 19th Gds Vecz Div there a which is on
tho envelope described .n n report, belongs to the 99th Cds How
A.r?sy Regt of the 19th Gds ecz Div and o nfirma that the tent carp quartered
eonnone nts of this division,, The hutment there sc'f~ms to have been newly
25X1A built, possibly from the s removed from the former camp site
south of Nottendorf o It is believed that the components
of the 19th Ods ';ecz Div
, that were pr-:viousiy accommodated in the tent
camp are now occupying the new hutrient.
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Comment. The reconstruction of form:ir German Armed Forces build ins
so_ tl u ` Uc'za? sprIn:..e was .previousiy re ported by the same and
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25X1 C The tent camp previously observed in
11Y woo about !Wrie ers northwest of the aforementioned road intersection
was no longer those o In its place., there was a hutment surrounded Ty a
board Cence? The troops quartered there were estimate 000.
The fragment of an envelope addressed to a soldier of was 25X1 C
uw,del.eg?en alone the Cardelegen.:3alchau road as f?
Schnoer:,-,ersburg crossroads were
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I. On 21 Juno 1951, only each carrying about
12 solders, were seen on the Jewenitz-Letzlingenn=horn road in the Letzling
Heath (M 53/! 53) training area, The road was open to civilian traffic.
Gunfire was heard throughout the day from the artillery range east of the
Je.ment tz-born road a Trucks with troops seen driving from the direction of
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Co., rient, Most of the vehicles belong to the 207th '7'tz Rifle Div
and inc ivi ua ones to the 7th Cds Tank Div,, the 18th Mecz Div and the
l}th Orbs T'ecz Div 4
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