SOVIET TROOP SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003800540009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Soviet Troop Shipments
17 March 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
1. A shipir ent I bsent from Netzeband to Oranienburg on 11 Marsh;
another shipment, was dispatched from Gransee to Dernau on 12
March.
2. Four troop trains, one passing through Grieben, one through Herzberg east of
Altruppin and two through Neuruppin, proceeded toward Loewenberg on 11 March.
On the same day, a column includinf 25 rocket chhlers and 20 trucks passed
through Altruppin toward the east,
3. On 11 March, Shilrient
went from Magdeburg to Reinsberg.2
4. A signal unit of the Third Shock Army was observed loading in Magdeburg.2
5. Shiimient, were sent from Rostock to Binz on Ruegen Island
between ? February and 1 March.
6. On 11 March, four shipments, were dispatched 25X1
from Jueterbog to Wittenberg.4
Comment: These movements appear to indicate that the exercises of the
25t Tank Division and of elements of the 6th Guards Mechanized Division, which
had started in the area south-east of the Mueritz lake on 6 March, were completed
on 10 March in the area north of Neuruppin. See 25X1
2. Comment: The information in Paragraphs 3 and 4 may indicate that units
of the ?h Rifle Corps were scheduled to have exercised at the Wittstock troop
training grounds after 12 Marche Prior to this date, units of the 79th Rifle
Division probably held exercises in Letzling Heath? See
STATE [ARMY
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3. t Comments Unitf7, of the 4:[;h Anti-Tarok ArtiU c7 Brigade, shipped on
23 Fobruary from Prows to Wu;strotr for edvanced combat firing practice, were
apparently being sent backk.
4. Convent. This n, ray constitute the return .)-f about, 70 tanks and 1+0 mctor
veh c es of -t =eth Guard;; T&ntc Dlvision which had let for the Jueterbo area on
7 March.
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