SOVIET VEHICLES OBSERVED IN VIENNA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700710010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY Austria
CLASSIFICATION `'R
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
SUBJECT Soviet Vehicles Observed in Vienna
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1. The following
on 9 February
Ooviet vehicle
1953:
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noted in Vienna
jeep with enclosed body, driver with black.
bordered magenta shoulder boards
truck with white star, civilian driver
jeep bearing the inscription "Komendatura,`U
driver with black-bordered magenta shoulder
boards
truck with military driver
Mercedes sedan, driver with red-bordered
black shoulder boards, parked at Dominikaner-
bastei 24
sedan with military driver
Mercedes sedan, parked at Grand Hotel
Mercedes sedan with civilian driver, parked
at Grand Hotel
trailer bus with white star, civilian driver
sedan loaded with propaganda material for
the Soviet Information Center, parked on
Praterstern; the driver wore red-bordered
black shoulder boards
truck with military driver
Buick-8 sedan, parked at Hotel Imperial
truck with military driver
bus with civilian driver 3
,truck with military driver
truck with military driver
Tatraplan sedan, parked at Grand Hotel
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Mercedes sedan, parked at Hotel Imperial 25X1
Mercedes sedan, parked at Hotel Imperial 4.
2. The following vehicle noted on 10 February 1953: 25X1
sedan with civilian driver
Mercedes sedan with military driver, parked
at Grand Hotel
truck with civilian driver
jeep, parked at Grand Hotel; the driver wore
black-bordered black shoulder boards
Adler sedan, parked at Hotel Imperial 25X1
truck with a white-bordered red star, driver
with black-bordered magenta shoulder boards
shall truck carrying two stretchers;
civilian driver
truck with military driver
Moskva sedan with airforce driver
Iioskva sedan, parked at Grand Hotel
truck with enclosed body, military driver.
3. The following vehicle noted on 11 February 1953:
Moskva sedan with military driver
Opel Kapitaen sedan with military driver,
parked at the Soviet PX on Kaerntnerring
truex with military driver
truck with military driver
jeep with civilian driver
jeep with enclosed body
Steyr truck with civilian driver 25X1
truck, loaded with solid fuel, driver with
red-bordered black shoulder boards, entering
Wilhelmakaserne
truck bearing the inscription "Fahraohulep
entering Wilhelmskaserne; the driver wore
red-bordered black shoulder boards
old-type tank truck without pump, entering
Wilhelmskaserne the driver wore red-bordered
black shoulder boards
truck with enclosed body, military driver
jeep with enclosed body
ambulance vVh military driver, parked at
Grand Hotel
truck, parked at the Soviet PX on Kaerntner-
ring
BMW sedan, parked at Grand Hotel.
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4. The following vehicle
1953:
noted on 12 February
jeep bearing the inaori tion'Xomendatura,"
military driver P
truck with enclosed body, military driver
truck with military driver
truck with military driver
sedan with civilian driver, parked at :rand
Hotel
truck with enclosed body, military driver 25X1
GAZ-63 truck, driver with red-bordered black
shoulder boards
Koskva sedan, parked at hotel Imperial
truck with civilian driver
small Skoda truck bearing the inscription
"Weltillustrierte," parked at Globus Verlag
bus with white star, civilian driver.
The following vehicle
1953:
noted on 13 February
jeep with military driver and one passenger 25X1
wearing red-bordered black shoulder boards
jeep bearing the inscription"Komendatura,"
driver with black-bordered magenta shoulder
boards
BMW sedan, driver with red-bordered buck
shoulder boards
truck with military driver
truck with military driver
Jeep, driver with red-bordered bl ok shoulder
boards, parked at Hotel Imperial I
sedan, driver with black-bordered magenta
shoulder boards
Moskva sedan with military driver, parked
at Hotel Imperial
truck with military driver
Jeep with enclosed body military driver,
parked at Hotel Imperial
truck with military driver
small truck with civilian driver
Austrofiat truck with civilian driver
jeep with military driver
truck with military driver
truck with airforce driver
Austrofiat'truok with white star, civilian
driver
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truck with military driver 8
jeep bearing the inacription"Komendatura,"
driver with black-bordered magenta shoulder
boards
truck with white star, civilian driver
sedan
Mercedes sedan, driver with red-bordered
black shoulder boards, parked at'Hotel
Imperial
BMW sedan with military driver, parked at
Hotel Imperial
Steyr truck with civilian driver.
The following vehicle noted on 14 February 9953: 25X1
25X1
three--ailed truck, parked at Grand Hotel
three-axled truck, entering Gartenbau; mi:'i.tAry.
driver
jeep, driver with red-bordered black ahou.der
boards
truck with military driver
truck with military. driver
ambulance with military driver
Moskva sedan with military dri_ver,, parked on
Sahwarzenbergstrasae
truok, driver with red-bordered-bleak shoulder
boards
truck with military driver
Jeep with enclosed body, military driver
Skoda sedan with military driver
sedan with military driver
deep, driver with black-bordered black
shoulder boards, leaving Gartenbau.
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