SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000450008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The following troop trainswere 'dispatched from the Rathenow.Nord raihmad station
to Walbe on 25 and 26 February 1954:
- boxcar
F - flatcar
Data Number and Load
in Type of Cars
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25 11 B, F 8 k 122-mm field howitzers, 36 trucks
2 field kitchens 2 jeeps
11 B, 34 F. 16 x 122-mm fielel howitzers, 38 trucks
1 field kitchen, 1 jeep, the numbers of
which were Covered up
26 , 11 B 41 F undetermixod
11 B, 40 V
6 B, 17 F
2. The following troop trains were observed en route from Preuzlau
5 and 6 March:
- converted boxcar
Date ip Composition Load
5 7 G/B, 2 B, 18 F 8 .1: 152-mm howitzers and trucks in,-
eluding
to Mirow on
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12 0/B, 4 B, 40 F 10 armored half-track vehicles
25 YEAR RE-REVIEW
with puns. 2 BA 04 armored scout, Cara
27 trucks including
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Date in in CoMposition Load
Mach
If 7 C/B, 4 B,.36 F lx 82-mm mortars, 20 trucks
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10 x 76-mm field guns, trucks
on 5 and 6 March:.
. Rym,
Pate in Composition
match _.92r TaAn"___
5 14 13, 30 F,.5 RRym
16 B, 22 F 5 Raym
the following troop trains had to be made available
heavy-duty flatcar
These ship tp vero_reported previously.
Comment. From the motor vehicle
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reported it is inferred that these ?
enipments involved units of the 25th Tank Div
probably 10 shipments wore dispatched. Mirow is 5 km southeast of Laerz
airfield. Feasibly an exorcise similar to that held near Brand airfield was hsli
at Laers airfield or troops involved were carried to exercises at the Speck-Granz
firing grounds east of Merits See (lake).
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