SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700170007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Troop trains
included
Date in
aRI'milmr-
6OrtohRr 1953
between 8 and 13 September 1953
:t;mber of
Ax lea
Tons
From
11 56
815
Breddin
Gloewen
Gloewen.
Schoenhausen/Elbe
Schoenhausen/Ellbe
116
780
Schoenhausen/Elbe
Kyritz
382
Kyri tz
1,319
Cottbus
736
Rathenow
572
Forst Zinna
114
645
Forst Zinna
x.334
1 , 062
Gloewen
146
946
Fuerstenberg
62
640
Neustrelitz
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Jueterbog 1
Forst Zinna 1
Forst Zinna 1
Greifewald 2
Greifswald 2
Greifswald 2
Yagdebuz'g 1
1' agc1eburg 1
Frankfurt/Oder
Aken
Breddin
Gloewen
Luokenwalde
Altruppin
Dallgow-
Doeberitz
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Date in Number of
.Sepember Axles Tons From
13 86 335 flalbe
were also operated in connection with the con, andm ost exercise. A'iothe=r source
reported that the troop train went fro_:..:,tend it 25X1
to Greifsti-ald on 8 September 1953. I I. 25X1A
9 94 721 Eborcwalde
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2. On 8 Septer..ber, a troop train of 4 boxcars uitl-: soldiers and equi=cr.ient and
several flatc,:rs with nine trucks, E_ I 25X1 B
Iwas observed at the Wuste:gar railroad station. The train had
a.nd went from Neustadt to Trebbin
3. Troop trains identified from railroad records on-13 and 15 September included:
a train of 10 conve- ted boxcars, 27 boxcars and 6 flatcars which carried the
hospital at Teupitz/Gross Yocris from Halbe to Dresden, on 13 September; 5 and
a tra..in of 1 converted boxcar and 13 boxcars from Wuensdorf to the border
on 15 Septe_:7er.7
4. On '? 6 September, a troop train of 11 coaches and 20 boxcar, with soldiers
was observed at the Frankfurt/Oiler railroad station. The train p me from
the din=ction of Lberswalde and proceeded tow: rd rest Litovsk.
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troop trains were observed 25K1
The second troop train from Yrritz to . `ngdeburg and the uroop rains on Sep e;,: r
1953 are reported fey.- the first time., All trains belong to the rail movement
in connection with the conr:;and-i:ost exercise in i.:eeklenburg.
25X1A 2. It cannot definitely be interpreted whether these troop trains
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w'ich returned from firing practi.,es at Neustrelitz.
an ele, gent of the unidentified '_ank train ; ng battalion of the 1st iv ecz Div
Comment. The troop train from ?reust'reii to till g of Doeheritz carrion 125X1 A
25X1A 4? Corzr:aent. The troop train from berswalde to i uensdori probably carried
signal units of the GOFG which were employed at the command-;ost exercise of
the Fourth Gds I~leez Army and returned to their horse station..
25X1A 5. I Cornne'it. This troop train j
reported from iIalle by another source.
however, coni armed the same train from a e.
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Comment. ' The troop train ~.v.s previously
confirmed. the
train carrTea e e ,men s or e i _ ads Sig 11egt Ua of the Third Gds I?.ecz
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Army returning from the comrand-post exercise in kecklcnourg. On 4 September 25X1A
1953, another source observed the above unit F_ I near
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3. Corm,ent. This troop train .probably belongs to a rail moverm,.ent in conjunction
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Iia.densleben, 30 kilometers east of Neustadt.
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L Com ment. On 15 Septe. ;er 1953, the loadin;; of about 250 troops with ~a?
g
o u_ooxcars was observe by anotth_r source at the
d Wuensdorf rtjil oad st_~t'lon.
age
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