'SEC!:T HEADQUARTERS

BERLIN BRIGADE Office of the AC of S, G2 APO 742 US Forces

G2 DIVISION! BERLI,I BRIGADE INTEL\.IGENCE SU:'UARY

Period Ending • 252400 Jan 62 (ISUl, ,·4) (U)

1. (5) SOVIET FORCES.

a . The first travel restriction for the year 1962 , ex ­clusive of autobahns , was imposed on Allied Military Liaison Mission personnel in three (3) new areas south and southeast of Berl in for the period 16 through 27 January 1962. The irregular­ly shaped areas include, or are contiguous to, Soviet training areas at JUTERBOG (UT 8065) ! ALTEJIGRABOW (UT 1085), LIEBilllOSE (VT 5552) and ELBE RIVER SOUTIT (UT 0151) .

COMMElIT , Although the specific purpose of these temporary restrictions is not known, the size and locations of the closed areas suggest that an exercise is taking place.

b . The 168th Independent Guards Battalion , formerly in Konigs Vlusterhausen; has been relocated to Installation 42~1, Berlin/ Weissenoee. (Order of Battle Change)

COr-.IMEIiTJ This installation is the permanent station for the 11th Signal Regiment (KGB) also ~Olo\m as Soviet Wach Regiment (7iatch Regiment) . For the past two (2) days company am! platoon size training has bee., observed in this area, in and nor""h of the co~pound proper.

c. The previously unidentified artillery regiment at Installation 2065, ROHRBBCK (UU 645228) has boen identified as the 283rd Artillery Regiment . (Order of Battle Chango . )

DOWIIGRADED AT 12 YEAR r;lTERVALS NOT AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED

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2 . (C) EAST GERMAN ARMY ,'ORCES.

East Geroan Defense Minister, Army General Heinz Hoffman , repor tedly stated 1n a speech on 12 January 1962 that the Eest German Army strength is limited to 90 , 000 men .

COMMEHT I Tho EGA strength st3ted by General Roff man pro ­bably refers to :i'iational Peoplo~ Army (!iVA) strength , rather than the ground forces alone . This has been the official announced strength of NVA (Army, Javy and l:..ir Force) for several years, and actual strength before August 1961 was approximately th i s figure . Actual strength of J.'~VA today is est1~ated to be about 100,000 (EGA ­Bl , OOO , EGi~F - 8,OOO and EG;~ -ll , OOO) , pl us 35 , 000 1n thE; Border Command, an addit i onal 26 , 500 in East German Garrisoned Security Force s .

3. (c) GARRISON SECURITY FORCBS .

At 221450 January 1962 a US lHlitar,y Reconnaissance patrol observed two (2) BS? ' s holding two (2) West Berlin civilians at ffUn,oint on the auctor/zonal border (UU 941081) . The BSP's were on the East Zone side of the border fence , und the civilians were on the ' .... est Sector side . However , it is possible that the civilians were in East Zone territory , since the fen3e lies II meters inside the border . i~ :SSP fired two flares (1 greon and 1 red star cluster) . k BSP Officer then arrived at tho scene . Several West Berlin Police also arriv~d at tho scene. One of the civilians ran to safety ond "Naz not fired ur'on.

COJ:lJEUT, The other civilian was roleased wi tllout further incident. It is not known if the civilian was released due to the arrival of the Vlest B: rlin Police or due to t he presence of thQ BSP offi ce r.

a . Rail .... ays :

The East German pross announced I.;xt..;.nsive change:s in passenger train schedulee on the Berlin - Erkner (VU 1509) - Gucr­st(:nwaldc (vu 3702) - Frankfurt /Oder (VT 6999) rail lines becoming effective on 14 January 1962 . In some casea buses are to be substituted for train traffic .

COMMENT 1 Ho indication that the scheduled changes were caused by unusual military rail ~ovement .

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b . Autobahn !

;io change

c. ,L'l. ir Corridors I

No unusual activity

d. East Berlinl

(1) . Construction on the new expres s highway ~hich wil l extend from Eas t BLrlin to Schocnefcld Airport (uu 9805) wa s not completed by the end of 1961 as pr eviously scheduled . The proposed completion date is now sot f or February 1962 .

C01.t?JEo'iTI This i s the second r(;port of failure by East Gnrmans to finish a highway construction project schedul~d for complotion by 31 Deoember 1961 .

(2). Wes t B~ rlin Pol i ce r oported tha t East B~ rlin auth­orities vere delibera t ely slowing proccosi!1g of -"" st Germans in v;.:hiclcs onterinq' East Bt:rlin ~nd returning to Vie st Berl in at Prinz ~n StrUBse (Heinrich Heine Strasse) Crossing Po int. Individuals havto in some cases bl:cn f orced to strip and undt;: rgo thorough search. East Berlin Police havG indica t ed tha t persons unwilling t o accept long wai ting peri ods should use alternutl; cross ing point f or ··it,st Germans loca t ed a t Bornholmcr StraSSt who r e traffic has be~n moving at normal speed .

Cm.··XHT I Traffic at Prinzcn - Strassc Crossing Point normally h~nvy , ~hile traffic a t Bornholmer strasse 6rDssing Point light . ....tt~iilpt to eq,ualize traffic betw een two cDossing pOints to discourage Wes t G.,;rman travel ~ nto East Berlin . Intensifi t:d controls could well b e forerunner of eventual neT, r egulations governing cntry of West Germans into East Be rlin.

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tailed but Five US Military vehicle s operating

not horr~ssed during the period .

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~,'o interruptions or interference rl.:ported.

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g . W-Bahns. S-Bnhnsl

A source r eport s tha t since mid- s uame r 1961, r e ­construction at the S-Bohn sta tion GRIE13InTZSEE has b een under way . The form e r fr e i ght depot building was b e ing remode l ed int o ~n

office building for the h:~W (EG Customs) .

CDMME1'.T, f .s of 19 December 1961 , the r e con s truction wa s not co~pl e ted , however one room of the office building wa s 1l 1reody occupied by the I.ZKW.

5 . (el HOSTILE REeOKNJ.ISSdeE.

The numbe r o f Soviet r cconnaissanoc vuhicle s entering the US Sector increase d to nn ll vcrage of 1 per d~y . This includt'd seven (7) bus loads of Soviet Officers fi nd a f ew EioI.

COMMEnT a Ea ch bus hod a s edan e scort end it al1pears thnt these we r c orientation visit !:' to 1illitnry insta llations in the US Sector .

6. (el REFUGeES .

a . J'lll a verage of 20 r e fugees per day flere r oglotered at the ~rionfeldo Refugee CEmter. This is an incrense of 3 pe r day since the last r eporting period.

b . At 240230 Jan 62, 28 persons fl (;d to Wes t E~ rlin in the area of Berlin/FrOhna u (UU 854330) by tunneling unde r the sector border.

7 . (e l POPULATION /.TTITUDES.

h former East Berlin man Bnd hi s wife who recently defected to West Berlin sta ted tha t the morale of the Eu st Berlin population has sunk t o depths which a r e difficul t for Westerners to concvive . This profound sense of di seouragomen t Is due to the f a ct tha t people hnvo no\". lost a ll hope of a ehie ving free dom by any means ahort of w~r. For a whilc, Eas t Berliners pe rmitt od themselves to draw some comfort from th e " wa ll - must - go" de clarations of We st e rn political leAdcr s , but no\, t he y have COQe to the cold r ea lization tha t such ctatemonts nro essentia lly meaningless a nd that the wall is there t o stay . "{Thnt hurts us mo st ll , the eoupl e s a id (speaking riB if thG y Wcr() still in East B.:::rlin), "ls the f a ct tha t t:. v cry time s omeone like Kennedy or Br andt emphas iz e s the de t e rmina tion of the \7c skrn powe rs to hold on t o Hos t Be rlin, it only drivf1 s the point hoac to us that th(;y hn.vc al r eady writt e n us off as loatl1. In sp.tc of tho f or t:.go ing . the soure e and his wife stressed that the sight of U. S . ~.rmy scd':ln8 cruising around East Berlin still ha s a v~ry cheering effec t on sorne of the population.

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8. ( U) PROP/.GUIDi ..

s . The '/loo t Berlin 1I011eo took 8 62 y ear old woma n into custody on 18 J on 62 for distributing the communist pt:por "Die ,:,'ahrhc i t II on Si ede t mei sterVicg/Wal ds tr :1 8S C , Rcinickcndorf . Scventy ­six copies o f t he paper ,'Iere impounde d.

b. "Dcr T3gcsspl cge l tl r eport ed on 23 Janua ry that l ea fl e ts suppose dly of T.lhanlcn orig in h~vc been f ound a t Thuringia Zon~l Border, distributed by B irplun~s of unknown na tiona lity . The leaflets nre a "Specinl edition for c omr ad(Js in the DDRu, given out by the organ or the Alb c.n i an Communist Party con tradicting l ead(;r­ship of Soviet Communist Party in t h(J Socialist comp o Children were observed ga the ring thQ le?flets undor supervision of "Vopos " . Tho leAflets \".ere meant to inform the Sovi e t zonol communists of ma tters which they otherwise, on account of cen sorship , woul d not luarlil . "When the time for exposition comes \",'e would like the battle-hardened Party of the Germun working class not to f ollow the opportunity gro~nd a r ound Khrushchev , but parteke in the conscquentinl destr uction and liquida tion of Dl i e fforts to r epl a ce inde pendence and equal ity of ~~ rxist- Leninist parties .

9 . ( C) OBST1.CLES AND B;.RR IERS :

o . Cons truc tion on all towers on the sector/zonnl border is completed and towers ar e occupi ., d .

b. Seven members of Sovie~ona l Border unit s e scape d into the Bundee r epubl ik 3nd confirmed inst ~l la tion of mine strips a t the zonal border . J. doubl e rou of mines h~s been laid a t the throe kilometer border s ce tion nOar Dutzow . !lin t)fi elds a re be ing pre ­pa.red in the Magdeburg And Erfurt districts.

10. (C) NEW ?lI.TERI •• L IDE"TIFIC~TIO."

Ifm; type Eas t German ammunition pouches fo r KolD.shnikov D.ssoul trifl e h:1VC becn obtained and examined . They a r c c onstruct ed of c nrno ufl ~ge m~terial similar to previous types .

COM1iEilT I .. ddi tions of cx trn eO r.lpo. rtmcn t for addi tional Kl11'1s hnikov mago'Z ine increases 'nunun i ti on carried by the pouch fr om 60 to 90 r ounds .

11. (U) lIE':: UNIT IDE;'TIFIC"TIOaS ,

See paragraphs Ib and Ie , above .

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13. (C) ST;,TISTIC:.L SUl,n.4.RY OF IllTELLIGEilCE O?ER .. 'IOilS,

During the poriod thore were 21 ground reconnaissance patrols dispatched to ~at Barlin , 48 Str}.ff Tours were node in East Berlin , 3 helicopter flights were ~~de over tho sector/sector nnd soc tor/zonal borders , ,~ ground reconnaissence patrols werc made of the sector/sector border from the US Sector , and 24 ground rcconnrlissancc patrols were made along the sector/zonel border from the US Sector .

14 . ~ECURITY J.l~D COU;iTUf.Il~TELLIGEUCE I n . Circulation and Retention of Intelligence Summaries

(ISUM's) 1 The priL"lury purpose of the I ntelligence SUIJI":ory is to provide current intelligence and counterintelligence information to key officers of the command in order that they mAy perform their ! u tics and fulfill their responsibil i ties wi th up-to - date knowledge and awnr~ness of potential enemy activities ,nd capa­bilities in Order of Battle and related fields . \Hth this objective in mind, all recipients of the ISUU are cncourHgcd to circulate it amone the k~y officers of their staffs for r eading . The accuo­ulo ti on of ISUIJ's by sb.ff divisions is discouraged . Basicnlly, each new ISOlA. supcr3cd:..s the pr_vious one which should then be destroyed . G- 2 Division ~ninta ins n record copy of each I5UM published .

b. Classification of Defense Infor mation : J.nalysis of classified documents being prepared by s t aff divisions nnd units of Berlin Bri,~llde indic"tes a need for al l officers concerned to r(;vicw the defini tion of SECRET inforrlll tion Be sta ted in par:J.gr aph 21 of i..R 380-5 o.nd the Rules for Cl oosif 1cnti:m set forth in pnragrnph 57 of the snne regulation . Pnr;!gr'1ph 55 of the regulo.tion s b t-.;s that lithe prccticc of over- classifying dcfcnso informn tion projudicl::s the. integrity of th1:i: Cl118sifica t ion system , depr(;clutes the icrporto.nee of cornctly classified c1teri~1 , ~_nd crelltes un­necessary delay I expense , and adninistr", ti vc burden . II One of the Rules fOr Clnsslfication !:lost frequently violated in Berlin Brig.'\dc i6 thAt ",hieh proscribes that "docuocnts "ill b e classified according to their own content and £21 ncccss~rily according to their re­Intionshlp to other documents . 1I

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15 . (U) l.iISCELL/.lIEOUS ,

Dor Tagcsspicgel t ~ i!cs t Geri:llln ncwspa pe r, carried a n articl e on 23 January 62 in which "'13 1 t c r Ulbricht introduce d a l aw for com~ulaory nilitnry 8~rvicc for EAst Germans .

CO,,11ffiNT I This announcc l:lcnt COr:iC! as no eurprisc , since it has been 11 "foregone conclusion" for some tiee now thnt the only so lution to thE! 1::lst G(;rrncn l:'lbor problco would b e to enact u con­scription l nw .

16. (S) SUi.!. l.ft'( OF SIG':IFIC •• IIT DEVELOPMEJlTS,

a . Insta llation

168th 42}1.

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b . The 1dcr.t1fication of 283rd i.rtillery Rcgiccnt at Rohrbeck . (See para Ie above)

c . Bus la, ds of Soviet Officors touring the U.S . Sector. (Sec para 5 obovc)

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