GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013800400003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC- General I3liiar~, Inform than
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DATE OF CONTENT
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1= On Q July 1952, all a--,-)roach roads to forest sections 99/103 and 1=1/113 north of 25X1
ichhorst (N 53/Z 99) were blocked by soviet sentries. r, unit with vehicles
bivouacked in the woods and, accordin.- to foresters- also had +anl.a
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u au the unit had arrived during tho night of 7 July and loft
during; the n 7'a o:f 9 July, No training activity was noticed, (1)
25X1 2. 1 tank units had -practiced ciofi?-i- thcy 'the
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iver from east to west in the area of ;'?rneburt (%i 53/Y 6) from x:30 a,mma to
10:30 p.m, on 10 July, (2)
3 On 18 July, 2 motorboats, 12 meters long, and a xtorboats,.oach 8 meters long, were
unloaded at the Juensd)+rf (M 53/Z 91) railroad station and' hauled to the uensdorf
Lake.
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The officer did not know the date when the transfer would take place. The building.- of
the former Ategier-tri had already been vacated by the town ash inistr.~tion and was
vacant. The houses on ,he Hellwveg had also to be vacated by the civilian population,
allegedly to quarter Soviet officials. Only the owners of the houses we?e allowed
to stay in their housos. (3)
6,. According to rumors in Frankfurt/Oder in mid-July, Soviet offices would soon move to
Frankfurt/Oder from Potsdam and iiarlshorst `s? 11 ' g would therefore have to be
vacated by the civilian populations everal residents had already 25X1
received orders to vacate their houses. (3)
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In mid-July. according to a rumor which had been circulated for
some time in rank1irt,.Osier (0 53/V 63), the houses on the Hellweg would have to be
vacated, slog :dly tto quarter offices from ?otadam and Karlshorst. The former music
school. which previons1Rr housed the Soviet shipping company and was located on the
Heliweg had already b en vacated. The shipping company was transferred! to 117ran';fur ,
Oder? (3) 25X1
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At 5:45 p,,m0 an 23 Jobe., a train carrying 7 rocket launchers and
7 trucks r,-.,as se-on passing
throu;h Iathona.?, in the c iroction of otcudal.
The occupation of the Loo:en Kasorne in Joob3ritz (if 53/u 65) etas unchanged
until. 24 Judy 19x20 Potween 2rO and 303 soldiers vioarin^? Hack--bordorcd
crimson epa:zlet.Y arrived as roplaco.,le>.?~ts on 25 Jul. 0 (>
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(1 -L ?st i5 ~ ~tua t G'(1 about 15 Ion :'Jest-sortT7est of :+} srv..-mlde. The units
seen bivouacking there belong to the Fourth Gds i. cz xrrizr and the 6th C''cls
i. ecz Div? The units probably came from the Tompl in troop training, grounds
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(2)On 11 and 12 July 19 2, siY lax pr=:ctices involving 25X1
units of the Third. shock Army and en i leers a the 6th ads 'ccz Oiv in the
area near b>torkau on the be River east of btendalo
(3)Iio corresponding information from i'otsd.a:a and ,arlshors has been received,
(4) the train carried a unit of the
GOFG which is believed to be the unit unloaded in Altenburg on 2t July ? See
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There is a pos. ibility that this unit came from
Pr ?=rmitz and Lxn1on 1s to the 25th HL Biriga
(51 1 The replacements most ;probably were recruits
or tine I St ..iOCZ Diva
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