SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700490004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
COUNTRY
TOPIC Soviet Troop Trains
EVALUATION 50X1-HUM
DATE OF CONTE
DATE OBTAINED D~PREPARED ~ December 1954
REFERENCES 1
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
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At 1420 on 15 November 1954, a troop train oP !,8 cars with ~ldia~ passed
through the Magdeburg-Rotheneee railroad station. The train came tyres
Haldens~dben and went to Kieta.
At 1920 on 16 November, a troop ta~ain~~passed throuE~ the Mn~ellrose 50X1-HUM
railroad station. The train came from Frankfurt/Oiler and ~rooeeded toward
Cottbus.
3. Shuttle-trains which were dispatched via Guben between 20 and 2 November
i.f~cluded:
Date in Number of
November Cara !From _ ,._,_, ~o ___
20 54 B with soldiers Jagodin Cottbas
54 B " Frankfurt/Odor Kove7~.
5~- B N Jagociin Cotttxia
N N N
5S B ~ffipt, N N
22 54 B with soldiers Cottbus Kovel
54 B empty Jagodin Cottbus
23 54 B with soldiers n n
54 B n Cottbus Jagodin
54 B emfity Jagodin Cottbus
CLASSIFICATIONS
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4. The following troop trains were observed at Dresden between.
24 and 30 November-
On 24 November. A train with soldiers and an undetermined
number of F with 12 x JS-1 tanks came from Meissen
and left toward Bautzen at 2100.
On 27 November. A train- (with soldiers and an undeteY~mined
and left for Klotzsche at 1000, and another train~~wjlth
ammunition dams from the direction of Dresden-Neustadt and left
for Roederau at 2320.
On 29 November, A train with sold iers and an undetermined
number of F with five T-34 5 came from the direction of K;Lotzsche
~,nd went to Zossen,
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On 0_November. A train
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with soldiers came from thE: direction
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of Coswig and went to Dresden-1Veustadt.3
Comment. This t
roop
train is reported for the first time.
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Comment. Concl
usion
s on the s ttle-trains can be dr:awn only afte
r
tion of all av
ailab
le data.
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Comment. The troop trains probably belonged to the 11th Gds Tk
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