SOVIET TROOP TRAINS AND KVP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600430009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL - 'U.S.
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East Germany
COUNTRY._ - -
Soviet Troop Tram d_ KVP 'Train
25X1 C
25X1 B
1. Troop trains
included:
B - boxcar
C/B - converted boxcar
F - flatcar
T - tank car
SSy - heavy-duty flatcar
RRvra- it at
Date in Number and
Aucrust Type ofCars
10
CLASSIFICATION
Koethen
Altengrabow
SSy Aken
Koethen
Ha].densleben
Magdeburg
Aken
if
Altengrabow
Koethen
between 10 and 26 August 1953
25X1 B
Shipment-
To Record N
Jueterbog-
Altes lager
Cottbus district
Rathenow
Rossleben
Cottbus district
it
Altengrabow
Hillersleben
Rossleben
Rossleben
Cottbus district
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25X1 B
25X1A
23, 24 a
26
Eurg fir ldensleben
Altengrabow Wildpark
Tangerhuette Rathenow
Magdeburg Berlin district
Stendal Rathenow
Barby Berlin district
Altengrabow Fuerstenberg
Haldensleben Zerbst
Wolnmirstedt Halle district
ipxmenfis
Quedlinburg Jaevenitz
Hillersleben Burg
Wolmirstedt Zerbst
Magdeburg Wittenberge
-' . KVP trains identified. from railroad records on 18 and 24 August included
5 SFy-type flatcars from Moeser to Schoenhausen on 18 August; and a train
of 10 flatcars, 1 boxcar and 2 RRym-type flatcars from rfoeser to Brandenburg-
Altstadt on 24 August. 2
25X1 A 1. Corrr= ent a Seventeen of the 26 troop trains mentioned were indicated
in previous reports on transportation. The trains are commented on as
follows: - ,
25X1 B
25X1 B
Between 10 and ns went from Aken to the Erfurt districts
allegedly under he
first mentioned shipment is not indicated in the present report. It is 25X1 B
undo d ether the first mentioned train to Rossleben on 12 August
had Train -probably went to 25X1 C
Eisenach rather than Rossleben..The detrainin of an engineer unit was
observed in Eisenach on 14 August 25X1 A
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25X1A
25X1 X trains went from 25X1 C
Altengrabow to Brandenburg, carrying units of the 124th Hv How
Arty Brig (US) 25X1A
On 18 Au,;usty an e ngineer ships ents which may have been shi en No
25X1 B was seen at the Rathenow railroad station,
The transfer to Rathenow of engineers at this time cannot Y
for. 25X1 A
All other shi anents evaluated are reported for the first time. hp-,,- .1 s notbin.
25X1 C resuzrubly went to the area west of Stettin via the Wittenberge
,railroad station. On 27 and 28 August each cne shipment of headquarters
units and signal units of the Magdeburg had gone to
the abovementio!!ed area m 25X1 A
25X1A 2. IMUCoa nt. The trains nresimably carried tanks for the KVP
Bereitschafte n Klietz and Hohenstuecken; the tanks either were new or
had undergone repair at the Soviet tank repair shop in.Kirchmoeser,
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