SOVIET MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS IN THE SPERENBERG AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A035200210001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 14, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
J\ %Lrmis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws. Title
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SUBJECT
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
East Germany
Soviet Military Rail. Movements DATE DISTR. JUF?'
in the Spereaberg Area
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REQUIREMENT
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
report concerning two Soviet
military rail s ipmerxts leaving and six arriving at Sperenberg between 3 and 9
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MILITARY
Miscellaneous Rail Movements in the SPERENBERG Area (3-9 May 57)
1. At 2000 hrs on 3 May 57, a rail transport was unloa
SPERENBERG. The transport had arrived from the dir
KbNIGS'Wf1'STERHAUSEN and consisted of the following:
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1 Field kitchen;
8 tracked Prime Movers M 1950;
6 AA guns - type not identified as guns were covered with
tarpaulin. Each gun was loaded on a flat 12 m in length.
The overall length of the gun was appro= 10 m. The guns
were mounted on 2-axled carriages with double wheels all
round. Estimated calibre 120-1F0 mm.
After being unloaded, the equipment and troops proceeded to the
ARTILI?ERY Barracks at REHAGEN.
2. At 0430 hrs on 5 May 57, a Soviet rail transport as follows passed
through SPERENBERG from the direction of JUETERBOG en route for
ZOSSEN:
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25 x 2-axled rail tankers; 5 x 4-axled rail tankers.
(a) During the night of 6/7 May 57, loading commenced of various
rail transports at SPERENBERG. Loading of transports contin-
ued until 9 May 57. In all cases, empty rolling stock for
loading arrived from KfNIGSWffSTERHAUSEN. Signals troops fitted
each transport with a telephone cable from the rear wagon to
the engine. When loading took place in the hours of darkness
many street lamps were extinguished.
(b) The following transports were seen:
(i) 6 Mai 57: The following transport was loaded with
equipment from the HEEGESEE Camp. It left in the direc-
tion of JUETERBOG at 2400 hrs:
7 flats each carrying a tracked amphibian;
8 flats each carrying a 6x6 wheeled amphibian.
(ii) 7Ma 51: The following transport was loaded with
equipment which arrived by road from the direction of
ZOSSEN. The transport left in the direction of
JUETERBOG at 1830 hrs:
7 flats each carrying a tracked amphibian;
15 flats each carrying a 6x6 wheeled amphibian.
(iii) 7 May 57: The following transport was loaded with
equipment which had arrived in SPERENBERG by road. It
left in the direction of JtflTERBOG at 1900 hrs:
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7 flats each carrying a tracked amphibian;
10 flats each carrying a 6x6 wheeled amphibian.
(iv) 8 May 51: The following transport was loaded with
equipment from the HEEGESEE Camp. The transport left
in the direction of JUETERBO( at 2400 hrs:
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20 flats each carrying a 6x6 wheeled amphibian;
4 flats each carrying a loaded with barrels of
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2 flats each carrying a with a field kitchen.
(v) 8 May 57: The following equipment from the REHAGEN
barracks was loaded onto 2 transports which left ~n
the direction of JULTERBOG at 2230 and 2300 hrs:
18 AA guns 85 mm;
16 AA guns 100 mm;
20 tracked Prime Movers M 1950;
16 It if " M 1954;
4 Searchlights mounted on 4-wheeled carriages;
5 Predictors;
4 Power units;
field kitche.is;
4 large closed trailers with double wheels all round.
'vi) 9 May 57: The following equipment from the engineer
unit of the SCHUMKESEE Camp were loaded onto a transport
which left in the direction of JUETERBOG at 1500 hrs:
loaded with iron girders and wooden planks
and sleepers.
(c) The troops and equipment in these transports were destined to
take part in exercises "rn the ELB.E'.
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