197 10002 10190

197-10002-10190 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

Date : 05/20/97 Page : 1

AGENCY : USA RECORD NUMBER : 197-10002-10190 RECORDS SERIES : HEADQUARTERS FILES, PENTAGON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTER AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM : TO : TITLE : CIA TDCS-3/566,305 DATE : 00/00/63 PAGES : 3 SUBJECTS : WEST GERMANY: SOVIET MILITARY ALERT FOLLOWING KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : / / OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS:

[R] ITEM IS RESTRICTED NW 50955 DocId: 32281398 Page 1

ELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM

CODERET (SSR/LAST CERMANY/KASTERN ECHOP SECRET SLECT HIGHLIGHTS OF MILITARY WEEKLY SUIDIARY NO. 48 DATE OF DIFOL 20-26 NOVEMBER 1963 PLACE B FO FOREIGN DISSEN REPORT NO. TOCS-3/366,305 DATE DESTE PRECEDEDICE REFERENCES CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED 2m 5/14/97 DATE ACO, GERMANY, MUNICH /29 NOVEMBER 1963/ IN TEXT. APPRAISAL 3, EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE INDICATED/ FIELD REPORT NO. EGK-27396 SOURCE THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE CRADNICS ARE DEFOUTIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. OFFICIAL TEST GERMAN SERVICE FROM INFORMANTS OF VARYING RELIABILITY.

FOLLOWING ARE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GERMAN SERVICE MILITARY WEEKLY SUMMARY NO 48/63, COVERING THE PERIOD OF 20-26 NOVEMBER 63.

  1. DURING THE WEEK UNDER REVIEW, THERE WERE NO INDICATIONS OF PREPARATION FOR ATTACK BY SOVIET BLOC FORCES.

2 PART A. GENERAL.

LAST WEEK'S EXERCISE AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES IN THE SOVIET BLOC ARMED FORCES WERE NORMAL AND WERE THUS IN KEEPING WITH THE GENERAL PACE OF TRAINING AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.

SOVIET AND SATELLITE FORCES REACTED TO THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NOV 22ND, WITH PRE- CAUTIONARY MEASURES OF A GENERAL NATURE WHICH MAY BE

SECRET CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM 000 GROUP! DR DIA AGWV/ACDI NAVY A10 : TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM DA IN 157472 SECRET

10-3/560,203 2 INTERPRETED AS A REACTION TO CORRESPONDING STAND-BY MEASURES OF THE U.S. FORCES. IT IS EXPECTED THAT IN THE PRESENT SITUATION SOVIET TACTICS IN THE FIELD OF MILITARY POLICY WILL BE MARKED BY CAUTION. 3. PART B. ARMED FORCES. A. USSR/EAST GERMAN. 1/ ON THE NIGHT OF 22/23 NOVEMBER, SPECIAL ALERT MEASURES WERE ORDERED IN THE ORANIENBURG GARRISON FOR NVA UNITS AND POSSIBLY ALSO FOR SOVIET ARMY UNITS_/SEVERAL BAF-31. GERMAN COMMENT- THE MEASURE WAS PRESUMABLY TAKEN IN CONNECTION WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. IT APPARENTLY WAS CONFINED TO THE BERLIN AREA. B. EAST GERMAN. 1/ SINCE MID-OCTOBER 1963, CONTROL POSTS /SO-CALLED HINTERLANDPOSTEN/ HAVE BEEN STAGGERED IN DEPTHS OF UP TO 1 KILOMETER FROM THE INTERZONAL BORDER DURING WEEKEND NIGHTS. /SEVERAL F-3/. PART C. GROUND FORCES. A. SOVIET. 1/ SUMMAP GERMAN COMMENT ON TRAINING OBPS/. TRAINING AT LOCAL TRAINING GROUNDS AND NUMEROUS DRIVING SCHOOLS IS INDICATIVE OF RECRUIT TRAINING. FROM 14 TO 10 MAER BLENENTS OF GUARDS TANIR AMMY CONGESTED Page

NW 1001 -1/168.203 EXERCISES, PRESUMABLY AT REGIMENTAL LEVEL, AT IML LETLLINGEA HEIDE AND ALTENGRABOM TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS. SINCE 24 NOVEMBER, THERE HAVE BEEN TENTATIVE INDICATIONS OF ACTIVITY OUTSIDE GARRISONS OF ELEMENTS OF THE 34TH ARTILLERY DIV. NO OBSERVATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE AS YET INDICATIVE OF EXERCISES WITH FULL UNITS PARTICIPATING. 5. PART D. AIR FORCES. NO HIGHLIGHTS PROVIDED. 6. PART E. NAVY. A. SOVIET. 1/ ON 25 NOVEMBER 1963, ONE F-CLASS SUBMARINE, WITHOUT PT-NUMBER, PASSED NORTHWARD THROUGH THE GREAT BELT. /B-2/ 7. PART F. LOGISTICS, AND PART G. PSYCHOLOGICAL NO HIGHLIGHTS PROVIDED. FIELD DISTRIBUTION: ARMY, AIR, NAVY, USEUCOM

END OF MESSAGE ACTION ACCI, SAVY, AF, JCK, C30 IKO, DOSOP 1 DA IN 157472 CLASSIFICATION = DIESEMRAKON CONTROL