SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400390001-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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East Germany
Soviet Troop Movements
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8, 9 September
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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Neustadt/Doss. Trebbin
Breddin Jueterbog
Gloewen Forst Zinna
Rathenow Wuensdorf
2. Between 4:30 P.M. on 5 September and 4:00 A.M. on 6 September, columns of
sedans, trucks, medium AA guns and troops, including uniformed women,
continually passed through Roebel, enroute from Waren toward Wittstock.l
3. Two
shipments including GOFG sedans and troops were detrained in Wuelsdorf
on 10 September.
4. A headquarters' unit with about 75 motor vehicles was loaded on two trains
in Burg on 8 September, The trains left toward Iigdeburg.2
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were dispatched to the Mgdeburg district on
8 September from Kyritz and Bad Wilenack respectively.
6. A signal unit of the 3rd Shock Army was detrained in Magdeburg $`riedrieh-
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C omrnents s
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3rd Shook Army.
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2. The motor vehicles observed included some belonging to the 8th Guards
Army., the loading of which had been observed in Weimar
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3. All observations tend to indicate that the command post exercise
which started in the Pasewalk Angermuends area on about 28 August
was terminated in the area southeast of Wittenbsrge on about
7 September. The headquarters, signal and AA units were transferred
by road to the entraining area. No definite information on the
participation of units of the 8th Guards Army in the exercise has
been received.
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