SOVIET TROOPS IN AUSTRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013300420001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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la On 3 June 1952, a platoon of four officers and 60 men wearing .,~)Lki-boraored
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black epaulets and carrying bland ;its anti submachine .:eras on'c:r:i u
Picniar x~asorne in KlosterneubuY:r? (0 9/ 30) from tho. d.irectio_- of the
drill ,rounds beini- led by a 3c 71: _i ti lieutenant wearing
r6C~~,bor '::TCed bl ack
epaul3ts. The platoon was follov? ?. fj three groups of 1 ? ieutez tan c., 2
sergeants and u :yen each, who ' ox nc>d--bordered black epaulets _ncl ca,Yrae
from the direction of the forric a" onierzeugaiat. ~r ien'tries at 4t' e : ain ; ate
wore red-bor Bred -black epaulet . Three sergeants and six .ieri, al? ear:ir?
red-bordered :clack epaulets re tux. a e-d to the :i.onia.or Kasox'ne tlsr: auk:`. the
north`.vest, ;ate vd-iich wa'" ?: uardt iJFv a sentry .'.''? rf red-bordderec _i iauk epau-
lets. One of the latter so1?dier cair'ied a porta:lc: :."adi,o se rod' an
tenna? On the wall by th nort ar s , ;ate hug a net :;ith a cor belt, about:,
20 to 30 iietes l on, and about A"~.( crs 1'31T'~i,`T?-cno "~ruc :; stood. in
the y:'tx'C. and in the ?arc ;e; of I.f., f crn:'r Plc r:.o::zeuga t Which 1' er'e k.ua rded
b,-,- soldiers wearin red-bordore:i 'lack epaulets, "~. otor v hiclc , obser':-ed
included jeeps ;;rucks
tank trucks
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all driven by soldier with red-bordere u black epaulets
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stood
wood in front of the 1'ionier-
2a Cn 6 Juno, thr?ec fief:--,rad;: ofi',cers c::earin. re.-uoruored blac :. a;.aulets
with artiller. ins's .;nia were at the i-lt-.K et . ;nho in uct . c chat
(P 49/X 113)0 The ranking o1a-r,c32' :as a lieutenant colonel. . ? t sciLie r}s
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gore red-bordered black, epaulet, ,, Jeep II ..riven by a volc:ier ad'ti'a
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lets from the t irnction of Vienne -end, after a sort stay, left again toward
Vienna. -,~-
3, On 3 June, four rocket launchers cur undetorciine6 caliber were cLyerved in
the f cx'mer agricultural school itn 'ruck an. der Lei_tha (t' 491%. r -j'i u .
During ti-,e period front 3 to 10 Juno, the vehicles were re'peatecly seen
leaving for the drill grounds r..jornin~' and returning latx a- .ni ;,t0 * - 3 -
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in iu os terneuuurg belong to 116th 'pis IJe c z Refit ;sa y e t z s
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