SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006800680002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC
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CLASSIFICATION t
East Germany
Soviet'Troon Trains
EVALUATIO
DATE OF CONTEN
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
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REMARKS
1. Troop trains
22 March 1955 included:
Date in Number of
March cars
12 40 with soldiers,
artillery pieces and
trucks
observed between 12 and .
From To
30 with soldiers, Luebben
T-34 tanks and trucks
PI Anr- BTAINED.]
REPORT
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LDATE PREPARED
20 April 1955
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
Spremberg
Klingc:
42; 800 tons Beeskow Forst
13 38; 900 tons Riesa Forst
undetermined; Fuerstenwalde Forst
90 axles
26 cars with Cottbus Spremberg
2 SP guns, 2 tanks,
1 armored scout car,
artillery pieces and
soldiers
42; 1,030 tons Koenigswusterhausen Spremberg
52 Roederau Forst
48
14 44
30 F with artillery
pieces, trucks and
an armored scout car,
12 B with soldiers
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Elaterwerda Klins
Rie,a Forst
Jueterbog Cottbus
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to in Number of
larch Cars
1.4 14 B, 32 F with direction of
soldiers, artillery Falkenberg
pieces and trucks
To
Cottbus
4 F with 2 armored Cottbus Sprenberg
scout cars and
2 T-34 tanks
21 50 with soldiers and Forst
trucks
toward
F,a.l_kenberg
12 B, 32 F with Forst Cottbus
soldiers, arti.1 ery
pieces and trucks
3. I
22 16 B, 7 F Forst Cottbus
B - boxcar; F-flatcar.
Or. '.1 lharch, 11 troop trains went to the Koenigsarueck area and back.
Troop trains which could be r.etermined went from Schwepnitz to Grimm.,
fro:i Leisni ; to 'r:oenigsorueck, from Roederau to Koenigsbrueck and from
Horner to Schwepnitz.2
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tro
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rains
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between and 20 !
arch
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t : in Numb
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f
i larch Troo
p Tr
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15 5 wi
th a
rtillery Altenburg
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Cottbus 'Wittenberg
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railroad
district
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Lei cz' " Ohrdruf
,. Altenbi ,g 0hrdruf
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Merseburg Altenburg
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4. On 25 I?`a c , a troop train of 17 B with soldiers. and an unuetermined number
of F with 6 x 152-ram field howitzers, 4 x 10')-mm Al guns, J. field kitchens
and 51 trucks passed through the Satzkorn railroad station. The train came
from the direction of Oranienburg and proceeded toward Jueteri og. i
5. On -=7 I j rch. f our troop trains
went from Alten raoow to Crcxnow.
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Comment. Other reports clearly indicate that a field exercise 25X1
eac' of the 7th Gds Iiec:, Div and 6th Gds ~Iecz Div was held in the
Forst - i;1inge - Cottbus area -between 15 and 19 !!arch and 22 and 26
arch 1';55 respectively. According to the in::or-nation on t:e troop trains
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in the present report, the 9th'I,;ecz Div conducted a field exercise
in the area around Spreanberg i:maediatel~y adjacent 1td4 t W' '-,uth on
and after 12 ;:arch 19x5. ;;o conclusions can oe dra n concerning the
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troop trains which went from posts of the 9th Tk D
to t1' 'orst -
Klinge area during the same time. A division field exercise was held
by this division in the Zeithain - i uehlberg area on 20 i;a 'ch 1955.
Cornment. The troop trains probably belonged to the 8th Gds Iecz
Div. Other reports indicate that components of the,divliffoh from
Leipzig and , srimraa conducted Fold exercises in the Grimma '- 0schatz
area between 21 and 26 March 1955. It has not been :etermined if the
above troop trains are tieing connected with these field exercises or not.
3. F-~Comraent. According to another report, four troop trains with
artillery units were observed en route from the direction Altenburg
toward Leipzig on 16 Iiarch 1955. The troop
trains in the ref prance report t Lis did not go to A tengravow as was
previously assumed. Lislecen as receiving station and the"pr8bab1h
eturn of the' same units from i;erseourg on 20 1-larch 1955 indicate that
the troop trains were operated in conjunction with the field exercise of
the 21st Gds I:ecz Div in the Lossa area.
Coituiient. Troop trains and troop movenents fror.. Witten.>erg toward
Juaterbo, on 16 and 18 "'arch, and four troop trains which returned
from the direction of Jueteroog on 20 and 22 14arch 1955 were :indicative
of a field exercise of the 6th Gds Tk Div. The troop trains in the
present report are probably connected with this manquvef.
r a.
bolas Other reports"indicate that artillery unite Af the 25 ih
Ik Div were tationed at Jueterbog for 'fi, ing pact ce ;betty en 25 and
29 March 1955.
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Comore t. According to another report, six troop tra*41 also went
from the Jueterbbg ar,:a4 to GrupoJ s6uthw'est of' a;ilcfurt/ r, on
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