SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100100008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLLGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Soviet Troop r2ovements
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THE APPRA/5AL OF CONTENT IS
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This Document contalna information aSecting the Na-
tional Defence of the United Staten, .within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.i3. Code, as
amended. Its trAnamission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized Dernon is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
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23 April X953
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1, The .Kindel troop training grounds were occupied by advance details prior to
1F3 April .The first troop trains arrived on that date, Three troop trains
carrying elements of the 57th Guards Rifle Division from Naumburg were identified
at the Eisenach railroad station,
20 Tank9 mortar and artillery units from the Tannenberg Kaserne in Weimar were
dispatched in the direction of Erfurt between -15 and 1? April.l
3a Elements of the 2lst Guards Mechanized Division from. the Heide Kaserne in Halle
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were dispatched toward Erfurt between l~, and 1g April, Twenty-one JS tanks,
32 T~34/~5 tanks, 34 SP guns and an undetermined niunber of rocket launchers, AT
guns arluored scout cars and mortars were among the materiel entrained with the
troopso2
~n Several troop trains with units of the Sth Guards Mechanized Division were dis-
patched-from Leisnig toward Koenigsbrueck,
~, pn 15 April9 a train carrying rocket launchers and soldiers was seen at the
Meissen railroad station, enroute to Leipzig, The barracks in Zachendorf were
being; vacated, The Napola installation in Dr?sden-Klotzsche quartered only a
rear detail on 14 Aprilp
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6. Between 600 and 800 engineers, probably belonging to the, 36th Fontoon Bridge
RegimeMt of the GOFG in Magdeburg, arrived at the engineer training site east
of Rosslau between 8 and 10 April,
7. On 15 April, motor vehicles of the 7th Guards Tank Division and nine tanks from.
the Gross Kuehnau camp were loaded on five trains at the Dessau railroad station.
8. F'orty~two T?34 tar.~ke and oths~r equipment were dispatched from Cottbus toward
Weisswasser between 15 and 17 April. Other units statipx~ed in the Dissenchen and
Alvensleben casernes marched by road toward Muskau, A train carrying 15 JSD'~>152is
passed through Cottbus, enroute to Weisswasser, an 16 April,
9. Units of the 7th Guards NJechanized Division from the barracks on Braiansdorferstrasse
in Fuerstenwalde w?~? entrained on five trains between 15 and 17 April,
~0. Troops were unloaded at the Dranse and Wittstock railroad stations between 12 and
18 April. Four of the trains unloaded at Dranse carried a total of 53 tanks and
SP guns, An undetermined number of tanks howitzers and mortars were unloaded
from four of the trains arriving at Wittstock.
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1, The presence of 300 flatcars and boxcars at the Weimar railroad station had
been observed on q April. It is believed that the entrained troops, probably
elements of the 20th Guards Mechanized Division, moved to Cemp.Crawinkel
near Ohrdruf.
~, The division moved to the Lossa training grounds,
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