SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002500630011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SE(~RET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY East Germar~
SUBJECT Soviet Troop Movements
This Document contains information affecting tLe Na-
tional Defense of the United Btates, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the II.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.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
5 Octolie~ 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEfINI
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTAtIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
le The following troop trains were identified
between 24 and 27 Septembero two shipments each from Wismar to Wudicke,
Schwerin to the Magdeburg district and Schwerin to Jerichow9 one shipment
ez}ch from Hagenow to Jerichora~9 Ludwigslust to Jerichow and Guestrow to
Jerichow; four shipments from Schwerin to Genthin and five shipments from
Hagenow to Genthino On and after 23 September, eight YZIP trains carryring
guns and tanks were dispatched from Greifswalde9 Schwerin, Gloewen and
Wittenberge and attached to the Soviet shipments which proceeded toward
Magdeburgo
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2, one train each was dispatched from
Tangerhuette and Mahlwinkel on 30 Septemberol
3, Seventeen trains from Neuruppin and Altruppin and three trains from
Dallgow-3~oeberitz were to be made ava~.lable for shipment to Neustrelitz on
30 September and 1 Octobero2
L,., On 29 September amm~inition9 .~q'~tiplnent and baggage were moved from Born and
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and Letzlinger Heath to Neuhaldensleben by trucks of the 3rd Shock Army
and/or the 3rd Guards M?chanized Army, The evacuation of Camp Born was
started on 1 October. The first entrainment occured in Neuhaldensleben
on 1 October after empty trains had arrived there from the direction of
Magdeburg.
1. The above information indioates that a major exeroiae, which probably
ended on 30 September, was conducted in the area of north?rn Letzlinger
Heath, Rathenow and Genthin.
units of the 3rd Shock Army and 10th Guard Tank Division and 63rd AAA 50X1-H U M
Division of the 4th Guards Mechanized Army participated in the exercise.
KVP units may also have been involved,
2. Three or four trains, carrying headquarters units of the 2nd Guards
Mechanized Ar~*, had already been dispatched glom Velten to Neustrelitz
on 25 and 26 September, The movement of ..units of the 2nd Guards Mechanized
Army to the area north of Fuerstenberg tends to indicate that major exercises
are to be conducted by this army ~.n the Neustrelitz area.
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