SOVIET RAIL AMMUNITION SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007000670009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 13, 1955
• Content Type: CABLE

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CLAWfICATION S ORE
COUNTRY-
East Germany
REPORT
TOPIC
Soviet Rail Ammunition Shipments
EVALUATION F ____1 P1 AC OBTA# D
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED 13 May 1955
REFERENCES
PAGES ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
CB - converted boxcars B - boxcar F - flatcar
25X1
25X1-
1. The following is a complete list of shipments dispatched from the following
ammunition depots in March 1955:
Toepchin. 25X1
Date in Number of Weight of Load Receiving Station
March Cars in Tons
1 1 B 17 Roederau
1 B 10 Jueterbog-Altes Lager
12 8 B 95 Roederau
19 5 B 59,4 Jueterbog-Altes :Lager
21 7 B 98,8 Finow
23 1 B 6,8 Grossenhain
25 1 B 10 Welzow
29 5 B 64,19 Altengrabow
7 B 100,2 Altenhain
31 1 B 10,1 Chemnitz
4 B 42,1 Dannenwalde
3 B 34,8 Neubukow
Mockrehna.
14 2 B
Kapen.
24 1 B 15 Toepchin
26 33 B 500 Frankfurt/Oder
Altengrabow
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Pfaffendorf.
1 4 B 55,9
24 4 B 61
Hohbnleipisch.
2 5 B 82
5 B 85
4 9 B 85
9 B 95
8 7 B 75
Torgau.
21 8 B
Altenhain.
28 7 B 100
3 2 B 25
17 3 B 40
26 12 B 175
31 3 B 40
3 B 40
4 B 50
9 B 125
Altengrabow
Roederau
Jueterbog-Altes Lager
Finow
Altengrabow
Altenhain
Frankfurt/Oder
Rudolstadt
Naumburg
Glauchau
Weimar
Saalfeld
Ohrdruf
2. The following is a complete list of shipments dispatched from the
Altengrabow ammunition depot during March:
1 CB9 2 B Lamitsch
1 CB9 2 F Mockrehna
14 1 CB, 3 B Rosengarten
18 1 CB, 3 B Gera
19 1 CB9 7 B Torgau
26 1 CB, 4 B Rostock
1 CB9 17 B Moegelin
Comment. In March 1955, the GSFG ammunition depot at Toepchin
supplied all ammunition depots of the six armies, and two airfields of
the Twenty-Fourth Air Army. Other supply shipments were consigned to
the MVD units in the Uranium Mining District, and to the Wustrow AAA
Range.
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SECR
Comment. The shipment contained unusable ammunition which was
returned to the USSR.
Comment. The volume of railroad traffic of the Altenhain
ammunition depot of the Eighth Gds Army during the first three
months in 1955 included 34 cars with a load of 515 tons in
January, 59 cars with a load of 935 tons in February, and 43 cars with
a load of 595 tons in March*
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