SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700690005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 2, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/07/24: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006700690005-1
CENTRAt INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Soviet Troop Movements
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 2 May 1955
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
This is UNEVALUATED Information
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1. Nine trains carrying tank units were dispatched from Halle/Ammendorf to Ross-
leben between 19 and 21 April. On 25 and 26 April, ten trains coming from RBD
Magdeburg were unloaded in Forst Zinna.l
2. On 26 April, large scale transport movements were reportedly under way in Halle,
Rathenar and in RBD Schwerin where approximately 40 trains were employed for
troop movements.
to Forst Zinna presumably carried troops of the 7th Guards Tank Division.
Comment: The shipments to Rossleben transferred elements of the 21st
Guards Mechanized Division to the Lossa troop training grounds. The trains
19 shipments had been dispatched from Dessau and
Zerbst to Jueterbog between 21 and 27 April.
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