GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300390003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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2.. At Strout 10 a ..m.. on 27 July, . a train of 38 SSA'-tpe flat, a with 38 T-'+34 tanks
was unloaded at u riezen. The train came from thn direction of
Frank tnRt/ der: The tanks drove toward Bad Freienwalde - A1trant. At about
:ii p.mm on 31 July, a train of 23 tank cars with escort personnel wearing rad.
--bordered black ~peule;s arrived at the Eberewalde railroad station ar.~c3, according
to a airoadman, left for Biesenthal at l120 p.m. On 3 August, a troop train of
10 boxcars with 150 Soldiers wearing rad. bordered black epaulets, and 26 side-reek
flatcars with a new 3.-axle truck each was unloaded at the Bad rr?elenwalde railroad
station.
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3. Of: 6 A a bout 3C trucks with bridge construction mater
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were unloaded at . Bernaia A :3
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about 50 trics were pa e roops marching toward the Kauledo? x ?ailroad station
included 32 T-3L./85 tanks, 2 BA..64 axnored scout cars, 10 trucks aad 1 field dtchen.
Previously loaded at he Kauledorf railroad station were 8 JSU. 22 = 2 heaver 3B r
triick and tank
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5.. Beginzii.rg 11:30 a.m, on 5 August, a troop train of 12 boxcars and :30 gondola cars
was loaded with soldiers wearing raa bordered black epaulets, 25 trucks with pan-
toons, 1 `motr boat. equi nt, I field kitchen, l tank truck; 1 radio trruck~ 1 deep
and 1 sidecar motorcycle at the Mahiwinkel railroad station. T`Fi unit aIie from
the .Bittka~.-engineer training camp, 50X1-HUM
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mead station. The unit drove to the. Schuetzen Kasernb d -- 50X1-HUM
1. Between 4: 3 a a' p.m.. on 7 August 1953,: a troop train of 8 boxcars with 'billeting
er ui ent a: an undetermined number of flatcars with 26 rocket launcher
was unloaded at the Eberawalde ray -
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tents were broken and only
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nyc~le were entrained at the Tangerhuette railroad station.
boat and equipment, 1 field kitchen, 1 radio truck, 1 jeep, and 1 sidecar motor-
6. Beginning at noon on 6 August, 5 trucks with pontoons, other trucks with a mmotoa
On 4, 5 and 6 August, about 10 percent of the windows of the Tauentzien Ka.serne
in Stendal were lighted after dusk. The AAA emplacement east of the insta .latio
was vacated.
. On 4 August, only the guardhouse of the Hl nd enbi
after ni htfal.l.
Kaserne in Stendal was lighted
On the evening of 3 August, a troop train of :12 boxcars and 27 side-rack flatcars
with 10 trucks and 10 x 300-mu rnnket 3B.13 hers was observed leaving the Stendal
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~gommenty Probably components of the 6th Gds Mecz Div returned to their home
Mecz Army in the Bittkau training area in early Augu which had commenced in earl-ir
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of the 122nd (?) Gds Engr Bn of the 7th Gds Mecz Div were entrained which moved to
Fuerstenwalde on the troop train All these troop
trains indicate the completion of x e eras neer : e exercises o the Fourth Gds
Comment. The train possibly carried elements of the .312th Gds RL Regt of
the Fourth Gds T ecz Army which returned from a troop training rounds. The train,
however, is reported for the first t,3.me
on 27 July and 3 August 1953.
components of the 6th taecz Div may have rety=ned from Berlin to Bad Frelenwalde
Although none of these troop trains has been previously reported,
Oo aent, Probably elements of the 22nd Gds Engr Bn of the 6th Gds Mecz Div.
Welle unloaded at Be nau which according to railroad records, moved from Tangerhue,
to Ber?nau on the troop tr$l.n
On 5 August 1953, probably e:~ e> rents of the 1.9 .h rngr n o t e 25t
Tank Div were loaded at Mahlwir.ke1 on a train -::bound
for Vogelsang.
probably e emien ? s
went from tie s or
Biesenthal on 7 August 1953. As components of the 7t. s Merv. Div from the Wuh1heid ;
area also rotated with other units of the division, it is believed that corn orients
of the 6th Gds Necz Div follawcd the same procedure, 50X1-HUM
stations.
two troop
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Indep Sig Bn of the LXXIX Mtz Rifle Corps.
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in the occupation of the two barracks installations.
C_0mm9nt. The train probably was the troop t
carrying elements of the 25th RI, Brig wbi ch
from Altengrabow to Ratheriow.
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