MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THURINGIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300010011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 21, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R0003000
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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CWJKTRY Germany uasian Zone
SUBJECT Military Activity in Thuringia
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1~ At the freight station in Altenburg (K-27) twenty-six World War I model,
210 am fortress guns were observed; the Sun barrel was approtimately two
meters long. Thirteen of the guns were on gun. car?r?iagea with wheela one
meter in diameter, and the remaining thirteen were self--propelled.
2. An artillery unit with vehicle numbers in r o 064+ series are quartered in
barracks near Altenburg station. Forty-three modern guns were observed, and
others were parked in sheds; thirty wes'e 150mm long-barreled ;rams, and the
other thirteen were 15Omm field howitzers with split trails,
3. At Dorna (K-39) a tank unit is quartered in barracks near the station with
vehicles numbered I 1 39 12, 1 36 48, etc. Twenty-one T-34s (five
bogies, long-bar?r?eled 76.2mm gun) mere observed, three of them being numb-
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