MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DRESDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000500010-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE PRFPARED-_ _ ~.
__-_ENCLOSURES (Ho. & TYPE)
After the troops from the ileriaann Joerin;M Kascrno in Dr scion--Klotzsche
left by rail on 11 and 12 tpril 19x,1, the installation was occupied
between 23 ' aril and r. L y by only a roar unit of about 233 troops.
Thee soldiers of the rear wit ?iore red-bordered black e-aaul.et; with tan;.:
i.ca~ a. ,ni.a b .xx n tor? vehicles aalcl. tr;o trucks ware perked under canvas
covers in tho billetin, area. 11o trainiaa? -activities .wore observed,
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wore soon. 'T'ale hA
,aasq 'iroU7ous y on-)laced in the area nor h of the inc al~''ti-)n~ had
been withdrawn
;3znco 14 ^,pri1, only a rear unit of 10;? soldier:: wearing red-,
bordered black c oaulots without branch--o.f--sorvicc insignia "suave boom
c;uartoored in the ~ a gala 4 Only a of the installation :oro
:li".'.teal at ni";htfalla :dith the ca;;:ceetion of the laundry, .rhi ch eras still
in o x ,ation, all -. as ,a1.1 ations in the bitleti,i-* area seo:.teal to be un-
u::od a (1) ,
a3_l.zei i asorane in dell:, a,a and the hou:.)i.tal 7 n the Feats ~,iolh-aus
( es oval ;)131"''SC` ae) -.-ere Vacanta (2)
On 2 Lay, about 100 soldiers r:lacic bordarod black eoauloots Loll
in at the -3achrichten. KLas.:rne in Dro::d.an Uobi`au. ':rased on their .: ear-
ance and the troinin activity, source believed the soldiers wore recr:,aits..
Only one an a half floors-of one barracks build in, , occu Died by troops
with red?-tordared black epaulets, were li, htod at ni ;lit fall, r not,aer
building occupied by trooes with black-border. d bl:aclk s aulets was fu?-ly
lighted in the cvon.ina It was said that the eninae ar battalion stationed
there was coxananded by Lieutenant Colonel K.-,v lcov (Lnu)a Pranch-of--acervice
insi.; tai:a , havin ; the outlines of a pontoon, were observed with t'.eee troops
for the first timed wotor vc'n i clcas observed in the mate ll a Lion included 25X1 C
trucks , occiv:aiud. by soldiers e:aot ri n<
re&-bordered black epaulets with artillery insi.mia; and sedans
., occu-,,ied by oldiars ,aearin;; his ck-b=ordered black e wa'ulots a
The !4A sun e; lacVant still contained four 76.2--,-.ri , ns@ (3)
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;fin 3 I? i~ the Flak Kaserne in Tlickern see::iod to he occupied by
only a rear detail, tt few soldiers ~reear" _ cloyed black
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seamed to belong to this rear detuil0 ( }
c W only -a few soldiers :nearing rod-bordored black e~aa;Ll .qtr yore: seen
in the S Kaserne,, milder :.ann, from 15 to 26 Aprilm The in ta17ati,)n
seemed to have been largely vacated. Officers wore no longer soon
standing guard at the northern barracks gated Gate ;uarcd wore rod-
bordered black epaulets, whereas th .300 e soon prior to ]3 Apr il had ;aorta
blaa ck bord.ered black epaulets. (5)
On 1j ^ orils the troops in the i oo:1"ig 3aorg i:azorno wore apparently
:weaoaring for departure. About 100 soldiers tearing black Lor.1- ad black
epaulets and carrw_iig, folded blankets, and 33 T-34 tanks. ai.th consoc-,.tive
uribers from $2$ through Sal, were soon in the 1-:illetin- area. The
northern section of the billeting area coer.'ted to quarter only a rear
(iet;si:L of soldiers wearing reg.'-bordered black epaulets :aitth.)ut branc!ihaf-
service ineirmia,, and the southern section a rear detail of soldiers
rrea c?in black-bordered black- opa filets o Two trucks, inclut: in;; one -tith a
static
of the
:., On 190 2L;., 26 April and 2 1 , the La schinengewehr Kasorne ::pas only spar-
tiall - occupied, probably by a rear unit, of about 50 men and about 100
recruits who were enga;;ed in o1-Wsical training0 All troops "1oro red-bordered
black e'')aulets e, '"racks seen in the billeti n, area inclizled 3 with numbers
of alto numbers of Vie raid f; with
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n .':.our days between 23 A;)ril and 2 lay, the Adolf 4litler Kasorno quartered
f'roe,t 0) to 1 ,000 troops? The troops observed ~riore red bordered black
e )a;tl :ts, with the oxco )lion of some --oldier ,roaring, blackborderc:d. blact
25X1C v?a~.tlcts who were the drivers of 15 to 20 trucks with canvas tops, high
trero identified at the installation?
"I.O On four days prior ',' o nay, the ^dolf ;:i v? er Kasorne .ms oc .heel to
capacity by from l COO to 2.000 troops jn1(-1jrrf- - e- red: 4aor #lor{od
t)la ck c: aa:ul~ is ? were, idora.t i.
fried, 25X1 C
of L xch probably ;ender a rotation pro c?aartq On 13 .1pril.a two cor.mnnied, of
nave keen )ar7lied. in ,!nn irtgt;al.laation for a long tit?e0 Vehicles
rocruats ?;rho ;yore red. bo.x% Bred black e paulots and whra told irifor.-mant that
they had coy from the Crimean .'?-o e`iW:troy arrived at the installatio: ;, in-
fornant learned fro:, a sergeant that each platoon was equipped with 6 -!"Yi-
disc-sha )od raagaz inr)s,;
office of the installati.ony ;~;hi.c'n :.as equi.ppcd wit a sove;ra t~ l tc~]..etyp ? ax?i.tera,
was headed by ow Lieutenant l azirair fnu 0 ti, tole -fie dial ram seen at the
office bore the nu nborL G7 The filling station
of the installation was controlled by Captain tiro? nov (fnu), Its fuel
capacity was 'es timited at 18 cu.,m. iior..ie of the fuel was stored in d.rwas.
!-Noll was brought on trucks 0 The instal-
lation included a warehouse for electrical equipmeent, which ;aza~a-)lied al1
barracks installations in Dreothin0 It yeas Linder the management of senior
Lieutenant F;oksin (fnu), who wgis assisted by :12 soldiers wearing rect.-
oorderad l ck epa,.{.u .ets.y (8)
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12, ( 13. i a r.9 the urornadier Kaserne quartered 200 to 300 troops ;gearing
red?~bordered black o?aulots and, in its northern i~cction,, one or two
companies of eoldirrs ;tearing black-bordered black epaulets,,: Groups
of ..ip to 23 soldiers were regularly seen norching to the target range:,
,..otror vehicles observed at the installation ?sere; 25X1C
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Comments.
al.) The Sel-1110 and. another source rs carted that troops from the installations
wenU to Koenigsbrueek by rail on 11 and 12 .?:prig 1951..
The present report confirms that the units of the 11th ',;do Tank Div..
including the both :ads Tank .. ogt from the llermnaann G aerin g I aserne and the
Na la,, departed for the troop training ;-rounds,
(2) A're ra pus reports indicated that the i'ol x .oi I:nsornc air? the t'e: tapielli. a sae,
Hellerrs u;9 housed only a hospital.. 25X1 A
(3) i ^.e: ;Taclwichten I aso.;rno, ar;;scion-Ue ,1 aua is believed to c .tarter an
en ?'n.neer component of the 11th Gds Tank Div, possibly the 134th klc gn ;?
Tra., and an P.PiA unit of the I,th Ods AAA Diva
A Lieutenant Colo-iel Kr, uko v (fnu) was pre ous .y identified as the chief
of the political and cultural section of the :>CC on Hoepital Ctrasse,,
Dresden
(a) The Flat: Kaserno,, Pr'osden- Tichern, probably quarters the 496th (Ode?)
Arty iiogt of the 11.th gds Ton7c Div which is oocsibiy at Koeni gebrueck gather with other components of the division. 25X1,A
( ) The identity of the units in the Keserno' "ialder LIann9 Dresden, has not
been determined,. In addition to the unidentified. Uv Tank SP 2iegt of the
25X1A First ....s Lecz Army, motorcycle units, a signal unit and a repair shop or
filling station of the array may he located there.
The present resort indicates that the signal unit departed for field train-
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25X1A (6) A shipment of tr ?s -=pin: from Dresden to tooni.gshrnaeck was obser?veid on
16 t pril 1951 b~ . The present :report
indicates that the Oc s v Tank a og o the 11th :ids Tank Div, which is
carried in the Koenig org I,asernep may have left for Koenig brueck during
or after the .Addle of April 1951.
(7) The Laschir ngewehr Kaserne is believed to quarter an AT artillery battalion
(?) of the unidentified Arty Irig of the First Ode :,:ecz rrra.
The present report indicates that the unit left for sxrnraor tea nin4;a
(3) The information on the .dolf Hitler Kaserne only partially accounts for
25X1. the units believed to b quartered there. , 'The instal-
lation probably quarters elements of the IIq First u-c s ". z ,~xrra?,, apparont:iy
25X1C including a signal unit with the toletypo office a?le;;odly bc-
lo~n,~:ing to the signal co pany, was assigned to the lot i.Itz tin.(, In of the
25X1 C 23d Tank: brig in ":`end ar II and nas probably reassigned to the signal.
co.:, pany upon the deactivation of the battalion, Since the number 1141 7 on
the teletype diagram is Imorrn ~~~Wro agency in Dresden;, it is
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relieved that the other three hitherto unknown
25X1C Tyaclfi.nc gun companies have never before been observed in the .oviet Zone of
Oc r . my and can belong only to an infantry unit, whey r; ^y to components of
the 27th Gds l:tz rifle u;g : of the 11th Olds Tank Div which is b lieved to
be stationed somewhere in `ire-don., but it is doubted that there should have
boon as many as seven uachine- gun eo:rpanios. It is also possible that the
companies were co:'apononts of the motorcycle battalion of the First Ode Ile,=
IM, or the 11th ]ds Tank Div. The filling station and the ,warehouse for
:lectrical equipment, were oroviously reported.
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