TROOP TRAINS AT THE STENDAL AND TANGERHUETTE RAILROAD STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400060002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIF!Ci~Ti01 I'rr
COIJ9TR`f.. -. REPORT
TOPIC (`aop trains at the Stendal and Tangerhuette Railroad Stations
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DATE DETAIN
REFERENCES...__
Pp1GE OST INE)___~
___ DATE PREPARED__ 25 ';ay 1954
PA.GES__.__..__._.__ ..: a CSUf ES (NO. & T?'PE;._
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1. At 10 a.m. cu 4 May 1954, a train of 31 flat-2 s and 10 bexca.rs carrying 12 c 3l-?
AA guns and 25 motor vehicles was seen at. the loading rarlp of the Stcndsl rr.il--
r:ad station. About 40 troops teasing red-bordered black epaulets were observ d
on the loading ramp.
2. At 0:40 a?ni. on 5 May, a train of 22 boxcars and en undatermia:ed nuche^ os i'lat-
ca.rs carryiz,g 2 amphibious vehicles, 2 radio trucks and several boxcarloads of
billeting equipment was seen at the loading ramp of the Tangerhuette railroad
station. 2
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3. 900 a .m. on 8 Me a shi"tment of 8 x 35--mm l guTn3, 40 t:""Sicks
and about 450 troops wearing rid-bordered black
epaulets passed through the Stendal railroad station, proceeding toward %!itten-
bcrge. 3
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i, Oowra3i1 If the train was loadod in Standal, the entrai:scd units may havo 25X1
bolonged to the tmown AAA unit of the air force from Stei$.al? which possibly
transferred t.:o ustrow. 25X1
2.~ Comment. Probably one of the two shiJvonts =:-ci:. 25X1
~ cant to Tangerhuetta er_ih units of the unt en-
d eft itel
believed
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camp of the Bittkau engineer training site. 25X1
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3. t. Probably tral 25X1
~~" went from Dresden to Neubukow on 8 May, probably with elanonte of the