MILITARY INFORMATION FORM HALLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200080008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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7 Jar uary 1952x, a field exercise involving about 20.;) troops with redrlborc er_ cd.
black e; ulats and four T-34 tanks was observed in the training; fold of the Flak
Kaserne Halle_:,roernli.tz (M 52/D 92) on the road to : sen0 The infantry troop;:;
practiced a lvancing in croups of about 15 men _,ach., with the groups giving r eatua].
fire su port, -chile the tanks advanced'. in the spaces between the groups,, 'the field
exercise was interrupted about 50 rioter: before ;taepzi_, and V e troops involved. .25X1
assembled in four units for a critique. T-34/85 tanks which left the Talk Kaserae
toward 1 cesan on 15 January, marked with a rod star
in t7y a lhitd; line; nor ccc Sri ?a a red star without a boy-der lino:, The
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trucks occuoried by 12 ofi'i.cer u with tank irici,,z ia:
and trucks each earr;,,i.n;r; 20 soldiers who wore re ?--bcrde.r ed
black epaulets with to nk insi,-pia:, The. trucks were seen driving to card. the training
area at the I: r andber 'u (hills). 'T'roops seen in the western section of the bi.lletin a
area included: 25 men who wore red borcl.;rod black epaulet., and drilled with L x
76?2-n modal 42 field guns; and 13 soldiers who wore red bordered black o:paulets,
including sxaa with artillery i.nsigzni.a, and who or,scticod under the supervision of
an officer with a heavy machine Ulm with t;^; s?.,?;nt, mounted on a two-.wheel carriag;e,,
A total of 31-out 3000 troopy were soon drilling at squad level with and without
in the rrest.3rn section of the billeting area on 21 January. Six T-31 tanks
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3 :1&.-2 tank., were seen leaving the billeting area on that day, i'rom 6 to 8 soldiers
we,rin:- red-border:uyd black epaulets with tank insi;;nin and carrying cart inas sq,.aatt .
on eac 'ean:c About 101 tr
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ay s su re en a roa in field training ut heavy ,
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the trai:nin
.1 1 area south of the .barr n on 22 J inuary<
On 23 Janua--y the forr. r rravinzia3 Irronansta.lt (provincial insane asylum)
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western per Lmcter of hallo and east of the airfield was occu-Ted by a unit of
soldiers with red: bordered black epauletsc
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and = x > ri1 mortars, a radio station o1' trr-) x,ck
1 ar"t'~ick
radio sets with 2-meter antarria> was seen just 5 Y th of ti a
installation., lie officer an:i L. soldiers wonrin ; i;lack borderr~C bl_acl:
epaulets 'with ai:.r~lal insi _;ni7 acre obaervod at the radio stnti':.):aL _, tot11
of 30) r'ecei.ved close-?order drill at sq,ta?,c lcti*ol, +"aith and without
rific:.s ? a t ho western sact'ion of the ?' l ak Kauo+rne, .. unit Of a!-Out 30" iror)s
eari.n . cd-border' 1 . block ] n mrc seen
practicing with 6 x 32 a mort;:,ra and 3 x 7-r.t AT in the elau '.Q.)th
training area near the I,)iftnachrichton ::c=sir?ne on Nelda Allen? Lout .SOU
troops were engaged in field training with car?bines, submachine guns and light
machine guns in the aria north of the Yxandber ;e;,, .,ix trucks, each carryin;
23 soldiers and towing a total of r x 57-rrl AT guns: left the installation
toward. the Px-andI.rge on 26 January, 25X1
The troops wore red'--
C+r(iorecF ace epaulets, including some with ortil'cryy insignia, anr.?. were
ars:sac' with carbines and submachine ;uis. About 250 voldiers wearing rid.-bordem:
black epaulets with artillery ins ig;ni.a and carrying hand arms were observed
en,,aa; ec'.. in field tral_nin;g on Joelau 11cath on 26 January,, About 33J tres?:>) with25X1
red borderer' black epaulets and arrtecl with snail ar s receiver' combat traainin.~?
at piatoan level in th airfield area on 32. Januar;ru
50 Between L9 and 31 Jan::aary, the 1c1l. "asorno was occu'ued by nly a trait of about
60 -.1f n who wore recd->borderecd black epaulet and? ?.. ,tack-borcererred n25X1
rei;fardln_' this installation has been received to date,
(3) The T.u tnachrichten Kaserne and the I''liegerhorst xi;:serne are believed to
quarto:, Ve rer ainini; com)one nts of the 21st Gds c:cz Div?
The heavy inf antr ,r aca pons observed for the first tir: in and around tlio
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barracks instal.'~_=stion indic.a to that an inf_antr;" unit nay:r also be stationod ther.
It is possibly the 69th Ida : ecz .oe t which was transferred from r.eiazi; --
the witt'idraral of the M13 rc-;ir.nt? IIo'aovor.9 it is 'crliovo < t":,-) ? r3it s1a: cz
belm-j; s to the SCC. agency on :?axish sor.,i -tra :se.,
(Lt.) The identity of the units in the Y~acer_-Ie has not been etca:_inec'_ ci:ico
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