SOVIET TROOPS LEAVING THE WITTSTOCK TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002900180010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troops Leaving the Wittstock Training Area
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The following troop trains were observed at the Witvstock railroad station on
.3 October 1953: F-
it 12 radio trucks) I half-track vehicles
7 3A-64 armored scout car, 8 sidecar motorcycles, about 6
Cher trucks, 1 field kitchen;and including 8 boxcars, including 2 occupied by
tabon.t 60 troops, left totaard Pritziialk at 10:30 a.m. The train had presumably ;been
oaded in Wl ~tstock. A shipment of 10 SU-100 guns
the station, coming xi-om the direction of Dranse..
About 12 trucks
and troops and ammunition on 2
left toward Pritzwaik at about
T?itht tank trucks
boxcars and 8 boxcars
12: p.m.
passed through
were loaded on flatcars;
respectively; the shipment
t 15 to 20 tr't:c_cs,
radio truck 3 one-axle trai:t.ers
and an undetermined n-Lunber of troops were entrainedt w the latter. in several boxcars,
and left toward Prit: calk at about
,6-mm AA s 18 SLF-3.00 guns 3 BA--64 armored scout car;;
1 audio truck, 1 sidecar motorcycles, about 10 trucks
field ki tohen and an undetermined number of troops were entrain
the latter in some of 8 boxcar and left toward Prittzwalk. at 5:30 .m.
A b tt ' 0 track
ed,
1 a mbu enoe, 3 radio trucks, 1 jeep, 3 sedans, A armor scow -cars
and about 200 troops with tank insignia were entrained. The ship-
a went was still at the station at 8:15 p.m.
On 1 3 October, ammunition and equi;inent were trucked to the station from the di.rec-
ton of 3ch:reinrich.
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Pamment.The 6 trains are rather safely b elieved and
(have carried -units of
the 18th Mecz Div returning to their posts. According to weapons observed, the
loadings, among other units, involved units of the 2511th AAA Regt F and the
119th Gds Hv Tank SP Regt and/or the 33d Tank Regt of the division.
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