SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500570010-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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DATE PREPARED 22 T~iarch 1955
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1~ d boxcars, 1 boxcar axed 25X1
3~ Llatcass The train went from 1X1
Friedrichstaalde to Frankfurt Oder 25X1
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Tlire~ trcop trains were loaded and left toward Berlixl. Troop 25X1
t7~ains which came frog. the direction of Berlin were redispatched toward
Cottbus.
0 Three troop trains were loaded during the night. Tank sounds were 25X1
heard.
Four troop trains were asserlbled on the loading ramp, and railroad 25X1
cars were to be made E.vailable for a troop train to T~Iuellrose.
Ten new armored persormel carriers, 10 sidecar motorcycles and 25X1
t~ruc.~carrying 2 T-~34 tanks were standing in front of the Ziethen Kaserne
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1. ~~Cornmerzt. The train vas probably az e.:~pty tx?oop-train which, was to 25X1
the rovement of the 10th Gds Tli Div to the Templin areal ~ 25X1
~~ n.,.,,..,.,,.,+ about 29 troop 25X1
trains v:ere dispatched from posts of the 7th Gds TIecz Div between I ~I 1X1
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in early Llarch 1955, tl~ movement indicates that a winter field exer3.se was
held in the Lieberose area in mid-T~Iarch 1955? The first half of T~Iarch 1955
thus includes field e::ercises of six divisions in the GDR, that i~ the
25th Tk Div, 207th TItz Rifle Div, 10th Gds Tk Div, 1st I:Tecz Tsi.v, 39th Gds
T,az Rifle Div and 7th Gds Taiecz Div.
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