GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300450010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. At 6:30 p.n. on 11 April. 1953, a tr:.in of 23 boxcars with troops
wearing rod-bordered black epaulets and 16 flatcars with 9 BA-64
arnored scout cars, 6 heavy jeeps which
mounted 25-mm? twin- barreled AA guns. 7 motorcyc1 us
loaded
Koenigsbrueck.
in Dresden--Reick and dispatched toward Dresden-;iauptbahnhof and
L._.-DATE PREPARED 23 April 1953
the unit to have come from the bar.?acks
At about 10:30 a....
on 12 April, 40 soldiers urearing red-bordered black epaulets
8 JS-3 tanks F_ 7
armored scout cars were loaded at the Dresd.;n-
Neustadt railroad lt5O n-m- on 11, , 9 J -2
tanks BA-6
armor scow e:;r a motor ven c es
were loaded at the Dresden-Neustadt railroad station toward Radebeul
2. At about 11 a,.;.. on 13 April, about 15 and i and equipment
were loaded onto several boxcars at the Dres.'.en Friedrichstadt
railroad station and shipped toward t3.-,.d 3chandau. About 60 tanks
were entrained at the Dresden-Neustadt railroad station on 14 April.l
3. At about 7 p.m. on 13 April, a train with troops wearing red-bordered
black epaulets on 24 boxcars, equipment on 1 flatcar , artunition on
i boxcar and 6 three-axle armored personnel carriers
7 trucks
and 3 field -:itchens on 12 flatcars passed
through Radeberg toward Bi schofsurerrda or Ka:.ionz.1
4. At about 11 am.on 2`: March, 6 AA mms of 5-mr :, several
rc` i *~~ts sev ral trucks and others
paced through F;au4chstecklust north of Jueterbog
from the direction of Zossen and proceeded toward Jueterbog.2
5. On 15 arch, 4.9 empty boxcars were sidetracked at the Weimar freight
station. The cars were no longer se,n on 16 1=;arch. About 40. empty
boxcars were sidetracked at the Weimar freight station on 1 and 2 April.
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b. At about 7. p.n. on . prii, 3 trw ks and
7. "I'-.34/35 were loaded ut the .lei: ar r~ t sta iota. 'en rtpty
bo_ccars wcr?e coupled to the train. 0.1 =;'r: , about 30-' ' flatca_ s
and bo -cars ti: c-,r=a sidetracked at the :dairtar frei; ht s tat{ o n. '.:.'o
lo,ndyng operations k.:;r notice;r34.3
Co nt. a'ic ent.n? imnont:, i n'i cate th. _ t the 11th Gds Tank iv
started cieparting aftc,_? 11 .A; .ri1, presumably a.-ain for ViceniCsbrueck.,
T`to entra1nr}.:r_t
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on 14 A_,r.1 is confir .::d
n. reconnaissance :nit is stationed in the
Luftnachrichten a: ,serene in Nickern. It nay be the 9th Gds I,trcl 3n
of the 1.lth Gds Tank Div.
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Com3n~:.t.
prepar ti : ns for large sea
transportation novFi ..ents ?,h'.ch wer? to start in t.''o ...rAart ionan!
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railroad district after 13 April. The 20tzt Gds 1',oc_' Div is expected
to transfer to the murr ?or t,?ainin. ; area, p = =;sung. bly to Ohrdruf. The
conbat i'ir' i , ; pacticos of the division it Ohrdruf ..'etc inf. er 'ed from
numerous re ..orts on .an:-port ~.tic-n.
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