KVP LOADINGS AND SHIPMENTS IN THE EGGESIN-PASEWALK AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600380005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

_O
Approved For Release 2006/01/31 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA0026003> 375
rLL~,
n c vw
SECURITY Ililf'O~tiil'~
- REPORT
TOPIC KVP Loadings and Shipments in the BEaaesinPasewalk Area.
P ALUATION 25X1 PLACE OBTAINED I 25X1
DAfw OF CONTEN 25X1
WVTE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED 29 SeotembO.r 1953
REFERENCES_ 25X1 _.. ... .r.
PPGGES. 2 ---ENCLOSURES (NO. 8, 1YPE>_,
RMARKS ~.- -
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
1. At 12:20 p.m. on 30 August, a KVP shipint of 44 boxcars with troops wearing
red service color and an undetermined number of flatc$ s with 20 trucks and
a fire brigade truck went from Pasewalk toward Berlino
2~ At 6:10 a.m. on 1 September, a KVP shipment passed through Prenzlau from
Eggesin and proceeded toward Frankfurt/Oder. The train included 6 My -type
cars. 20 flatcars with sideracke and 2 bocars carrying a total of 9 canvas-
-covered tanks and 40 arm;,red scout cars.
3. At about 3 pew on 3 September, 120 unarmed troops of Tank Regiment No 2
were loaded in Eggesin for shipment toward an undetermined destination.
At about 3 p. r. on -4 September, EM of Tank Regiment No 2, tarrying only
small sui':.,:ases were loaded in Karpin, allegedly for shipment to the
T hur an bordero soldiers of this rogi-
men en entrained wrote to their dependents from East Berlivr:.'
From 11 a.,m. to 5 p?m, on. 11 September, 3 trains,, each with 26 passenger coaches,
were loaded with KVP from Eggesin. One of the trains had an~addit:fonal 6 flat-
cars with sideracks carrying 6 ambulances and a field kitchen. Most of the
troops, except for units from Altwarp?who arrived at the station on 10 trucks
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
25X1
arrived at the station by roa o They were equipped only with small arms,
`t about noon on 11 September, a train of 15 boxcars with KV? wear}.ng blue
.rvice color and 20 flatcars with 10 trucks and 2 light armored scout cars
left Eggesin toward Jatznick. A h'VP unit was loaded at the Eggesin railroad
station at I p.m. The train consisted of 22 boxcars, each carrying about 40
troops, and 15 flatcars with an undetermined number of trucks and 4 field kit-
chens. At 3 p.m,, a KVP shipment of 22 boxcars with EM, 15 flatcars with 11
trucks, 4 field :f.tchens and 4 sedans and 6 empty SSy-type flatcars was obser-
ved on routs to Jatzxiick railroad station, in the direction of Pasewa?.k.
this _'hipment identical with that which
be loaded at 1 p.m. I
in Eggesin, from 8 to 11
September, 3 KVP trains'had allegedly left toward Pasewalk daily.4
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CLASSIFICATION,' _CPRI
Approved For Release 2006/01/31 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002600380005-7
 Approved For Release 2006/01/31 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002600380005-7
SECRET
25X1
25X1
6 Between S and 12 September, three shipments ,each lo.a#?ed w,k.h }_VP ;nt?antr
ma? vehicles but without heavy weapons were daii;r dispatched from
Eggesin and Pasewalk to Berlin, Zentralviehhof,4
2~ apt,, There is the possibility that the train want to Oranienburg
wit ete.chments for the let Moez Kommndo of KVF Bereitsch&ft Berlin,, as
large detraining operations of tanks and KVP per-
sonnel during the night of 1 September.
~
25X1
25X1
3 Coax neat , It could not be determined which of the ttnk regiments
of Division (Metz) Eg.osin is referred to,,, However, both regiments and
the tank training regiment are stationed in Spechtberg,, It is more probable
that the load f ng involved elements of the 2d Phecz Regt in Karpin0
~aa __Cgm_enta Information on rail movements
indicated that three trains each from the area of Eggesin were loaded
for shipment to the Berlin district daily from 10 to 12 September. The
arrival of three of these shipments in Lichtenberg,, presumably Zentralviehhof,
was nh a o, i on 13 September,
'Approved For Release 2006/01/31 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002600380005-7