WEEKLY OB SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700310006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Weekly OB. Summary
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQLAW
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
TIE BOUNCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS MOST ARE OWINITIV[.
TIE APPRAISAL OF CONTINT IS HMATIVE.
(FOR U T SEE RIVfM)
Y'... CABLE
The following is a sum[ary of Soviet military activities observed prior to 2 January:
1. Generals Individual trainiig at posts and firing practice by tank, artillery and anti-
aircraft units continued. he rate of arrival of anti-aircraft artillery increased. The
shipment of new trucks, which started in early November, continued into the first half of
December.
2. Training and TrooD. Movements: The bulls of the troops which had been absent from Gr1 .
had returned to their posts by 19 December. A train with eleven T-34/85 tanks, two 85 mm
AT guns, three trucks and three boxcars with troops went from Gotha toward Erfurt on 13
December. A train composed of 13 converted boxcars, 14 boxcars and four flatcars was die-4
patched. from Potsdam to Chemnits on 17 December. One boxcar with troops and five 85 ma AL
guns, presumably a firing detail of the 32nd ALL division being shipped to Wustrow, was
sent from Frankfurt/Oder to Neuruppin on 19 December. Anti-aircraft firing at Asrik in-
volving planes from Puetnits-Daagarten has been conducted weekly from Monday through
Wednesday since mid-December. A train with six T-34/85 tanks going from the direction
of Riess toward'Dreiden passed Priestewits.on 20 December. Four 152 mm gun howitzers,
five caterpillar tractors, two trucks and four boxcars with troops were entrained at the
Wildpark railroad station for shipment to Altengrabow on 24 December. The dispatch of
four converted boxcars, three boxcars and 18 flatcars from Wildpark to Altengrabow was ob-
served on the same day. Another shipment consisting of four 152 ass gun howitzers, five-
caterpillar tractors, two field kitchens, one truck trEiler and four boxcars was dis-
patched from Wildpark to Altengrabow on 27 December. rainjng grounds were under construe
tion in the Briesen-Neubrusck area, 15 kilometers east of uerstenwalde, on 13 December.
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Berlin via Frankfurt/Oder on 4 December. About 15new two-axle and three-axle trucks
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Bernau and other Soviet posts in Geraany between 4 and 19 Lecember. About 750 old trucks.,
ninety percent of which were of American make, were dispatched toward Brest via Frankfurt/
Oder. A troop train with 44 boxcars was dispatched from Cottbdts to Kovel on 11 Lecember.
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