SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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CIA-RDP80-00810A001100490005-1
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date: 
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date: 
November 20, 2003
Sequence Number: 
5
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Publication Date: 
March 26, 1953
Content Type: 
REPORT
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CLASSIFICATION!`_.~`'~dz`11 I COUNTRY._._.. ,.'a q p oire~-Few4ieleaee 9ai42M, M RE)PW 4$ bA 0490005-1 TOPIC. EVALUATION--MA-0 1'?'? 26t ---PLACE OBTAINED, DATE OF CONTENT 1 ? tom" DATE OBTAINED 25X1 C DATE PREPARErg, ", " ` 1253 ....__...__~ ;. REFERENCES_e_. PAGES? _ENCLOSURES (NO. &'TYPE),. REMARKS Paraaraths 1- 2, 4 and 6 andthn I t ntinn nt in 'Irosa+rr+,anh I 25X1X Shim Prn,'n 9rninca 1. On'12 March-1953, a trop train o: 16 boxcars and 45 flatcars with 25X125X1 X vehicles s observed on route from 25X I 25X1X Koenigsbruec t to x ostouico 2, On 16 March,, a troop train of 9 coverted boxcars with military per- sonnel$ 5 boxcars with military goods, 7 flatcars with vehicles., and 6 $SYYtype flatcars with tanks went from Dana w-Doeborite to Neu strelits02 3. Troop trains included: Date in Composition of From March Troo2 ra ns__ on 15 8 16 and 17 March To 15 6 cony reed box- Eberswalde Lieberose cars 2 boxcars and .17 flatcars 16 18 cars Vogelsang Dall.gow 17 9 boxcars and Wittenberg Forst Zinna 19 flatcars CLASSIFICATION 2.5X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2003/12/10 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001100490005-1 Approved For Release 2003/12/10 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100490005-1 25X1 25X1A 25X1A a troop train carrying, a component of Probably AAA Div of the First Gds 34ecz Army to the Wustrow AAA Range, 25X1 A 2, 25X1 A 30 25X-1 A 4. 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A 6? ]S o A troop train of the 1st Mecz Div which went to the Neustrelits training areaQ a LG D Probably a troop train with any troops of the Fourth Gds Meez Army. the Io This troop train cannot be identified. On 16 and 17 March 1953, tank details of the 6th Cede CQZI a,n v were loaded at Wittenberg and went to Jueterbog for firing practices. a It was confirmed that a brigade of - 34thArty Div (US) returned by rail to Potsdam aind Wild etion of firing practices at Jueterboga %.s went from Between 4 and 14 March 195-4, ii r, Frankfurt7er to Brest Litvosko On 12 March 1953 flatcars carrying .nits r~e : aea xrom Brest Litovsk to Lieberose: I L , o Possibly the first indiction that complete units will move to the troop training grounds in late March and early April 1951 WGRETT 5, The following empty flatcars with iron side-racks went eastward via Yrankfurt/Oder< 30 flatcara on 15 March; and 31 flatcars on 17 March which were dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder to Brest 7 Litovsk. 60 The Berlin railroad district headqufarterB was ordered to make avail- able at oncea reserve of 530 boxcars and 1,,60? 'gondola cars in the Berlin railroad district. Approved For Release 2003/12/10 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100490005-1 25X1A 25X1 25X1A 25X1