ARRIVAL OF SOVIET TROOPS AT THE SCHWEINRICH TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400160002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Arrival of Soviet Troor s at the Cc hweinrich Training Area
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DATE PREPARED , 4 Ma 11953
Troops and materiel arriving at the Schweinrich training area between
8 and 13 April. 1953 included;
3 jRrUl. Five officers and 64 soldiexe wearing red-bordered black epaulets
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and loaded with boxes and billeting equipment, from the
direction of use,
lSix truck
and cx ying boxess and bill c3t.tng equipmen .
A rid $ Five trucks including 3 loaded with billeting equipment and
2 _art1R_ Four trucks loaded with boxes and Umber and
11trucks, including 4 towing
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/6n -mm AT e and v ' Ta and billeting uiD-
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t .eks includin 1 Cowin a 76..2-mm A gun; T-3416
8 armored
scout emu; and 5 xai. `~trraac a.rr,ior e per. onne car .
Large truck columns were contiu uously arriving until about midnight,
Agri? ? Fourteen T?w34f85 tanks gnd 2 armored scout cars
r~ out 2 a. About -10 trucks continuously, shuttled between Dranse
and the training area during the f.arly morning hour: s?
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mine From 8 to 11 Aprils the arrival of
advance details of the lath t-iecz Div, The occupation of the Witt.
stock troop training grounds by units of the division started
cas 12 April
The 56 T-.34 tanks in this report
partly balong to the tank battalion of .
the 5 nth Kecz Regte and the 12 &' guns which rroba`~ belon to the
33d Tank Regt (US) apparently were not mentioned
us ncreas ng a num x' or tanks observed during the un-
loading.; to a total.. of about 174 tanks.
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