SOVIET TROOP TRAINS AND VP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001500670004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

17 18 boxcars and
31 flatcars
Soviet Troop Trains and VP Trains
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Itroop trains
Date in Co, sition oo
=1 Tr? r c uTrains
12 boxcars and
23 flatcars
106 axles
94 axles
96 axles
22 30 boxcars and
25 flatcars
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Brandenburg-
Altatadt
Brandenburg-
Altstadt
Wildpark
Potsdam
Potsdam
Wildpark
Wildpark
Magdeburg
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Wol1irstedt
Alteng^ above
Altengrabow
Aitengrabow
Altengrabow
Altengrabow
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2. The following trains were loaded at the Frankfurt/Oder railroad station
dispatched to Lieberose between 15 and 18 Aprils
Date in. gori- sition of
r.11 ZZ22p Trains
15 10 boxcars with soldiers,
12 boxcars with arrunitlon and equipment, and
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16 boxcars and
30 flatcars
14 boxcars and
34 flatcars
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20 flatcars wit.11a 8 x 57-rim AT guns; I sedan; 1 ambulance;
12 truck. ; and 15 r:,otorcyclers
16 6 boxcars with soldiers and
10 flatcars with 10 JS-I tanks; armored scout car TTo 20-
1 sedan; trucks
3 motorcycles
6 boxcars with soldiers and
about 9 flatcars ulthh 10 ; S-I tanks; 6 armorec scout cars.,
Including[ 1 sedan; 2 trucks, including
-land 10 -mtorc,rcles
17 6 boxcars with woldiors an.
13 flatcars with 10 tares
and 7 trucks
undetermined number of A latcars with
10 tanks,
1 jeep; and 10 tracks
to boxcars with 3o1diers and.
21 flatcars wi h 10 JS-I tanks; and 20 trucks
sedan;
6 boxcars wit's soldiers and
16 flatcars -. ith armored scoixL car No 30; 1 sedan
1 ambulance a and 37 trucks g
18 9 boxcars with soldifrs,
11a. txxcar fr with anr^unition and equipment, and
an m deter;mined nvinber of flatcars with 3 x 57 . *a. AT guns;
and? 5 x L`2-imn howitzers
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3. On 1(1 April, a VP irain of 19 boxcar, and 20 flatcars from. Cottbus wa s
unloaded at the Fr nkfurt/Ocer railroad station; About 35 trucks and
15 ?:c 82-mn mortars xere seen,
unloaded at G^tha, 0hrdruf, Eisenach,, Gera, Saalfeld and Aite .grabtr;
Merseburg, Falkenber-;, Altenburg and Porna, whiles the trains were to be
4,, by car. der of the Soviet transportation
cc.ntro headquarter ;~, 30 troop trains totalling 180 converted boxcars
3.20 boxcars and 550 flatcars were to be made available by the Halle
regionel railroad J trict headquarters on .12 and 13 April. On 23 Apr.-i1,
additional 12 train: were ordered to be made available by the end of
April. The assemblir. g stations included: Grirnria, Rosslau 1; -ipz-% , Ialle,;:
5. 1 116 troop trains from the Berlin and'.
4agd e r urg railroad , s r c : were expected to arrive at the Halle railroad
district between 12 ..nd 30 Apri1,5
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Div to Letzlin ? Hea?',h0
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observed included: 6 trains with
I from Brandenburg; and 18 trains
from Satzkorn,, The troop trains
have apparently not been covere
2, ormien a rains belong to a total of n.bout 12 troop trains of
the 34th Arty Div
The troop trai ask
have not been covered a
3. ~.Carn~nent 0 The troop train belongs to the ? 2th Gds Tank Div e
4? Gonj:.ent? these troop trains lelong
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5. Comment tween 13 and 1.8 April 1953,
acou , 11 troop trains of the 21st Gds Mecz Div went to iossa, See
a Thirty trains alone would be needed by this division,
The following loading and receiving stations are indicative of movvementd
previously observed:
Grimn>a., Lei zi and Borna, The 8th Gds P ecz Div to Koenigsbrueck.
Rass3?,au. The 7th Gds Tank Div to Letzling Heath.
Mersebur-a and Eispnac h. The 76th Arty Brig (US) of the MIX Gds Ntz Rif?e
Corps probably to Kindel.
a.lkenber,. Undetermined.
Gotha and vleir.ar, Units of the Eighth Gds Army to Chrdruf a
The following stations indicate that movements are, to be expected;
to Gera from Glauchau which is said to be evacuated and occupied by KVP
to Sag-Ifeld and Altengrabov by the 316th PLL Regt (U.S) of the XXVIII Gds
Mtz Rifle Corps; and probably to 01irdruf by artillery brigades of the
Eighth Gds Arrr,y from Altenburg
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