SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004101070001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Conv,ar,,ed Boxy; B - Boxcar;
7 and 29 {tarch 1954 included:
Tray? ta: afm from. the pia:.? 1e
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10 4 Ci3, 5 F`
1.7 4 C13, 3 1E`, 2 FR.ym
18 13 B, 34 F
11 C13, 21 F, 2 RRy:,a
4 C3, 22 F
5 C!-,, 17 F
6 C3, jr, .F
28 4v3, 5I
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3 C?, 24 F
29 3Cis 2 F
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.na troop 5._aining g:?ommds for combat,fIring practice.
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~< ns 3 ::ores 14,' L e, .?aa ie ? dorf to the 1.,r. fax re roa dx.s o.r~ c l:.
:; ,~ troop tra:? n :~epor e in t:K1 : xox~.sent`.report hauled component of the 21st C,d
Ir," D _> to s it exercises .wl cxi also included. contingents of the 57th Gds tz - .f1e
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f -:aent 3 of the 21st Gets Meciz Div in Hai le ixaclt=dsfa ,: the 'th GI
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confirm.er. by pertinent troop vxa .xas
Com an The troop trains from Grimm and WurzE r.0 rled ec ntii ents of 1:h; 8t
c: h Div ?l , Field exorcises at division level in the K nigsbrueckkZeithain arext.
pets,tedn 6 ?a.nnd 17 ?'arch 1954, units return c1 fxor= Scknispnits to their
,tationa after tc 'n nition of cora:b+at.firing ractic:e at the Koe igsbrueclL treop
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t :sa.ri nF. gr= s . be 1 ror? trai s from Chdmni tz probably carried components of the
a` &'a Ck s AM.. Div S) `
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