SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400100010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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E 1LUATION
? +i Tra*p Trains
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 1
REMARKS-
ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE)
DATE PREPARED 2$ October 1954
CB - Converted Boxcar; F - Flatcar; B-Boxcar
troop trains
19 October 1954:
Dated in
October
Composition of
Troop Trains
From
To
14
9 CB, I4 F
Jueterbog
Crinitz
17
18 CB, 8 B, 43 F
Jueterbog
Wittenberg
51 CE, 57 B,55 F Altengrabow
Eberswalde
18 and 19 24 CB, 54 F Jueterbog Wittenberg.
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between 14and
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, three empty shuttle trains has been dispatched daily, one
each via Frankfurt/Oder, Kuestrin and Guben. On or after 8 October, the trains
returned with replacements from the USSR,. The first eastbound shuttle-trains
with soldiers which were dispatched from the Berlin railroad district to Brest-
-Litovsk included a train of 54 CB from Oranienburg on 16 October, and another
train of 54 CB from Jueterbog-4ltes Lager on 18 October. A schedule for the
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following days included three shuttle-trains from Oranienturg and four
shuttle trains from Jueterbog which were to be dispatched to the border.
maneuver on 11, 12 and 13 October 1954,
that abeat 360 tarrka and vehicles were allegedly detrained at Crinitz on
several days between 6 and 13 October 1954. The troop trains had conducted
field exercises in the woods near Crinitz and had left the area toward the
west on 13 October 1954. Dispatching station and direction of return move-
ments indicate that the 6th Gds Tank Div and/or 14th Gds Mecz Div held a final
ed for 11 October 1954. previous report indicated
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Comment. Including the troop trains which were previously reported,
a total of 19 trains went from Jueterbog to Wittenberge between 13 and 19
October 1954, The trains probably carried tanks and track-laying vehicles
of the 6th Gds Tank Div which returned to their home station iprobablv~
after tarminatinn of the maneuve
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