SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600170010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Troop trains observed at the Rathenow re..:iiroad station between 18 and 28
August 1953 included
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EVALUATlal ---PLACE 0-8TAINED_._I
DATE OF CONTEN
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PACES ENCLOSURES
boxcar
F flatca
C/B - conver
SSy heavy-
r
ted boxcar
duty flatcar
Date in Nurber
and Frog
E st _ (i a of Cars
18 11 B
? 15 F Tange
rhuette
Bernau
4 B
9 25 F
n
22 5 B
, 21 F Wittst
ock
24, 18 B
, 19 F Stenda
l district-
Rathenow
27 12 B
, 24 F 1.agdeb
ur ;
Loewenberg
28 S B
34 F
n
The train on 22 August carried I? signal 'true..
2. The following railroad cars had to be made avai l able: 50 flatcars in Gloewen
on 2 September; and d'O converted 'boxcars in Jue';, rbog on 4 September o
3._ on 5 September, a train of 3 boxcars, 6 flatcars, 4 RRym-type and 11 SSy-type
heavy duty flatcars, carrying troops, ve.idles anr., tanks, went from T :plin
to Kaulsdorf F- I 5
CLASSIFICATION SECRFT/i
DATE PREPARED 22 September 1953
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Date in ',unber and
a3esnteraber Tof Cars
4 cars
18 C/Be 55 F, 6 Ssy
16 C/Be 13 F
12SSy
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4. Troop trains loaded in Jueterbog-Alter Lager included:
Greif swald
Schwerin
Cottbus
Greif swald
1-6 sa alr?ea y been assumed that the trains had been Ferri on ' f r?om
Rathenow, It is fairly definitely believed that the trains carried engineer
units of the Fourth Gds Mecz Arnj, press nabl_y of the 6th Oda Mecz Div,
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2 Cr~_ent, The train? which is rerJorted for the first tine, possibly
carried signal vehicles of the GGT'G0
P?rrment I I the train came from Allen
4 , ,rOSfiY?b~'iit a
trains I Iwent to seta .. and Prenz au res actively
L oe enberg was probably only crossing station be 'ween
the 1er n an re swald railroad districts a
Cori ent. Or, 4 September F the loading of tanks of the 6th Gds
Div was observed at the Templin railroad station.
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