SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400090011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 11
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Durirrg-tho ret irn irV' tb to
1%tV.3t t~, iE3, ~t~ac~g~ tr"airie . ~c~re dispatched ftGI' 0*dru4 ttr .fib aer4iorf -on L September 19 Eight
adds orial droop - tr1 a. 1rert u -] pad ed i .t*- Anaaanr Dr. , area . d-ur i4 ..
the f'ollowir>go cls e': I. -trobp-train' qf 5;O OB;was d patched . typ Brest - Lito sk
during .the ss e. iod. It could hot pe de,,erminej, wk ether ,he ' train
carried Aft-ft .ok-; was mpty_, - . ,
2, On 3 October',' .ftr" ,p' ?n crGB- ~ .. - -? .
j~ sg~.diors~arra.ved, at Sa.tzko? c1
from
'FwM 6a. ,
Troop trains dispatched from Satzkorn on 7 and 8 October included a
train of 13 CB to Bernau1oW-'f ?OdtbbeiI An* a i:ft3:, ,r 17 li 4.-
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4. The following troop trains were listed in.railroad records between 5 and
11 October:
Date in Composi-ion of
Oc ber Tram Trains
3B, 35 F
2 B, 27 F
4B, 29 F
FM
Guesen Sperenberg
32 CB, 6? F, 28 SSy- Stendal Potsdam
Tangerhuette
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30 CB, 43 F, 47 RRym
18 B, 42 F
Tangerhuette
Ktitirter sdorf
Fotsd:.
Magdeburg
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7B, 22F
Mah:L,Ankel
Potsdam
0/ B, 43 '
_ ang rhuette
7Bo 25V
iahiw:winkel
Wiidpar r
1.0 B,46F
7 B, 28 F
8 0B, 22 F, c
Langerhuette F9
tt n
SSy n
11 4.0 B with soldiers;
shuttle-train No 124
RehaC en-
Klausdor f
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5. Troop trains
between 9 and 12 Octobexr . >.c lui_Isc : 25X1
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9 55; empty Jueterbog Wusterraark
14 CB with soldiers Wusterinark Frankfurt./Oder
52 CB empty
55; with soldiers Frankf'ur t/ode: Jueterbog
55; empty Jueterbog Wusterna:rk
11 50: with soldiers Frankfurt/Oder Rehagen-
Klausdo:rf and
Wilduark
2 CB, 2 B, 11 F .lueterbog Crlnltz
2 CB, 1 B, 10 F rt se
12 1 CB, 11 F tt st
1 CB, 11 F tt
15 GB
Frarurt/Oder Werder
The troop trains which went from Jueterbog to Cri nitz carried
Ja:a
6. Shuttle-trains observed at Frankfurt/Crier between 7 and. 13 October
included:
.?? .Luber of
Octo~fi
52 B with personnel Brest Litovsk Frankfurt/Cder unload
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54 B with personnel
11 54 B with personnel
toward Cottbus
roc(ispatehed
toward Cott'ovs
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with about SC) tanks were dispatched from Weimar toward Halle on
28 September 1954, it is believed that the division ternina ted its
sudr training with a large-scale field exercise in the Losses Weiiard
5E B;t
Z 12 B with army a*d
air force personnel
1.2 56 B with personnel
56 B .with personnel
ft nkfurt/Oder toward Cottbus
LJJCme t.,, The. -troop trains probably carried large cont. ngeo,--,- n i
the 21st Gds Mecz Div back to their home station in Halle. During wJ-ie
sium,er of 1954, the division was stationed at the Lossa troop
training grounds. Since the bulk of the division was entrained at
Ohrdruf and, acoording to previous reports, components of the division
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3.
4.
?hrdruf area.
Shuttle-train
e epprt indicates that 10 cars with rep1 acements wet to R? hagewa-
Klausdorf, while 1,.0 cars were redispatched to Wildpark.
Cj~hft~."On 8 October 19
wen rom Guben to Jueterbog.
6.
e-tram?
v nv of WVbterra*rk' t F rhnkf brt vr cA 0c- n'hpr 1
is reported for the first time
54, shuttle-train
with replacer. en 1,..,s
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is reported for .the first time.
ent. The troop trains probably carried troops to a field
se in the' Flhstbriralde aria..
'#n 'tl iO eport indicates that shuttle-train
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