SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900480010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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.Altengrabow
Frankfurt/Oder
Altengrabow
Alt ?abow
Roadorau
Koeldgsbrueck
Koenigsbrueck
Neubakoi
Altengrabow
Moi 1cranntF edt
Sch" repnitz
Jbstween I and 14 August
To
Koenigsbrue ck
Jueterbog
Schwepnit;
Grimma 1
mouth
Weisswaaser
Koenigsbrueck 2
Koenigsbrueck 2
Schwepnitz L-
Altengrabou
Altengrabow 2
Finsterwalde 4
Peitz 5
Ortrard
Grimma 1
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13 -= Boxcar; F v F1a?wcar9 SiM ?_ HaoavyyDuty F1~-tcar; RR7V1 - Heavy-Duty Flat.
car
Troop trains
1954 includes
Date in Co"os ition of From
1" ' 5 R~ 10 F "ith Frankfurt/Oder
aoldiers 9 oqui_:.t
mortars and true-ts
4 R9 17 F i Y`.+ th Frankl tort/Oder
soldiers oquipm.rb
and trucks
17 cars
44 cars
45 cars
10 40 cars
50 cars also with
artillery pieces
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50 A n' The troop trains probably carried units o Sara
9th Hoc% Div which returned from AltenLr a'hou, wftsr of LJLv g
practice,
6n
::~ __,, On 10 August.1954, three troop trains ca-rying :ark;
c3ontingents of the 19th Gds Macs ?je of the ?,th Gds Div were O.itipatc;,&-
ed from the arkranst,s'dt railroad station to an .dete.r Tined desti~naticnb
The present report indicates that at least one of there trains went rt j
the area north of the 1'.osnigshrueck troop=--training gro .z.ds0
7o Coraeaat~ The s ;hoduies pro .bly were rumeotsd wi h mo eme -to rc '
companies of the 7th tads 4ec Div to the rasa ~+a3 ~enb area foy 1srge==
scale field exercises on and after I $eptezn r '19504, 0 iarvatio s t the
ieberose trooptrain3.ng grounds indices a w thdra,, o.? troops since
the depot which has been stationed ties sine play 1954 .1s to bj xtzos3eEj
to fterstemialde between 23 A t and 18spt mbar 19 v
It appears it-probable that the t ainar3 wore t- be used for the
personnel exchange mo, ement which,, in 1953k, did not sfi ?h ra until midi-Otto sro
9.
kM 8nt;,, All troop trains were preVic1 's1 r,-apt rbad0
C rr +nt The troop trains probably carried e.ie inns of the 6? th
Gds Tk Rom the 6th, GdP_ Hnez Div to field axere!Lin ., in thh Khmr s'im1r1:
GBad Freienwalde area.,,
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