SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003800270010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY East Germany ?-
SUBJECT Soviet Troop Movements
25i1TE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIREq
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were dispitehed-from-Haldenaleben toward Magdeburg on 1 March, and one
train each on 3 and 6 March. The trains were loaded with tanks and
motor vehicles of the 7th Guards Tank Division.1
Ong March,.a-vnit -of-the 20th AT Artillery-Brigade was entrained in Magdeburg
Troopsiof the 79th Rifle Corps were loaded on three trains in Burg on 9 March.i
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DATE DISTR. 1I.March 19514
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Four troop trains ~tei+e un3oazt~d at' dema durir#g '
20-21 February. One of the-trains illeged r wised armored scout oars,
mortars, and` AT guns -of -the 7th Guards Tank Division. Two troop trains
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1. Elements of . this division arrived at Letsi4 Heath for advanced combat
pri,otice firing in mid-February.
2. These observations are confirmed and, supplemented by information 0 25X1
Ito which major. troop unite were to be entrained in
1. 1 theSchwerin, agenow, and Magdeburg areas after 5 March. Information on
the location of the assembly area for exercises of the units of the 3rd
Shook Army is not yet available.
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