GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

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CIA-RDP80-00810A001300450010-7
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
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December 22, 2016
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December 17, 2009
Sequence Number: 
10
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Publication Date: 
April 23, 1953
Content Type: 
REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/17: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001300450010-7 r 25X1 C0U-NTRY_ .e.-t r, =.M r... ......._.......W.w,.._.. .,.__..,..,... REPORT Top.G.-._ _Gen :ra:t I, lit-ary lnform tion DATE OF CONT PAG ES 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. CLASSIFICATION SECRET; 25 YEAR RE-REVIEW Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/17: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001300450010-7 25X1 25X1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/17: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001300450010-7 S7,4RaT. 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 25X1 25X1 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. 25X1 Com3n~:.t. prepar ti : ns for large sea transportation novFi ..ents ?,h'.ch wer? to start in t.''o ...rAart ionan! t 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. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/17: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001300450010-7