SOVIET MILITARY RAIL SHIPMENTS AND EXERCISES IN THE ANGERSDORF AREA

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CIA-RDP80T00246A039400890001-7
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3
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December 22, 2016
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September 14, 2010
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1
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January 10, 1958
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/14: CIA-RDP80T00246AO39400890001-7 PROCESSING ,COPY INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT CENTRAL 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. S-E-C-R-E-T 50X1-HUM COUNTRY East Germany ml 1dory SUBJECT Soviet Rail Shipments and Exercises in DATE DISTR. 10 JAN 1958 the Angersdorf Area NO. PAGES REQUIREMENT NO. DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACQ. SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. which gives information on the following: (1) A shipment with trucks, prime movers, and engineer troops which was destined for the Wormlitzer Kaserne, (2) A shipment identical with (1) which was destined for the Heide Kaserne, (3) Exercises in the Angersdorf area, and (4) Three Soviet vehicles unloaded at the Angersdorf railway station and taken to the Heide Kaserne. A sketch of the three Soviet vehicles is also included. 14 6- f f~' STATE ARMY NAVY k IAIR IX FBI AEC (Not.: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".) Q Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A039400890001-7 IN FORMATION REPORT INFORMATION-- -R.EPORT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/14: CIA-RDP80T00246AO39400890001-7 SECRET SECRET EAST GEFLMf NY MILITARY 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Soviet Rail Movements in ANGERSDORF Area i id-Nov ) 50X1-HUM ANG.EZSDORF Railway Station 1. ln.?"1 5G: The following transport arrived from JUETERBOG and, after off--loading, drove off to the WORMLITZER Kaserno (BS 8203).- 1.51) .?o. Soviet Engineer troops; ? ~-c: 5?-axled carrying cranes; %: tracked prime movers ; . wheeled prima mo re: 3; 1 x road carrying a broad-tracked 6 carrying timber baulks, .boa.-ds, girde:c'a and channel irons of ATV Ttrack wiCx .:l? 1 Y~~/i trued:. 2 A o"d:i.o, transp:.:' .._7?. a?_.L r esoec'?ts with the one d:;sc:r.'-Zed in papa ?_ ' ?o+aJ9 T1IBOG and drov . }f t`' _T"i,Y ,l ~e "lf: l 18-22,1]_57: T c :?i_? and veh',c!.t,: li` tcd in p::~Yerl and 2 above, cart.-..C':' in the AnGEI1S_t~GRP area in loading and unload- a long the open rail track. Tanks, A/T weapons and wore included among the items loaded and unloaded, The two %nr: _necr dotachmente trained independently and c.? .: .ed t -_e-i. ^ training roints from day to day. They ordorc., by 'til/"_' from -ne o~ genleitung to the number of 5 or which ~,vnen 13ac'ed were as ,c ibled to make up one train, was then driven elsewhere in the neighbourhood for off- loading practice. right training in the oven-track tochnic'~,es ~.?;as to start cn 25 Nov 57 near ANGER--).D71-1, 4. J -.?0 11 ;3: Three Soviet vehicles, approx as shown in the attached sketch, were cff-loaded during the night at ANG 'F3.SDORF Railway Station and drove off to the HIDE Kaserne. They came from a station (name unknown) in the DDR. t 1 u~a A of 26 f-wagons arrived, loaded with h -r r= of unknown content. These crate;; were loaded and a1;er drove away to the HEIDE Kaserne. SECRET 18~22~~3: Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/14: CIA-RDP80T00246AO39400890001-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/14: CIA-RDP80T00246AO39400890001-7 .50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/14: CIA-RDP80T00246AO39400890001-7 7 C.2St'sh-c