SOVIET MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS ON THE FRANKFURT/ODER-BREST LITOVSK LINE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000200002-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The followincr military Tail movements were on the
-rankf'urt/0Ger (0 53/V 63) n, roznan (P 53/X 26) Varsaw
Brest Litovsk (S 53/L 87) line between 23 and 31 ~,:Grch 1950 .
1, Leaving Frankfurt/Oder 23 March 1950 and arriving Brest
Litovsk 27 March 1950,
;'; train of 50 railroad cars loaded with coal.,
2.. Leaving Brest Litovsk 2-( i}arch and arriving Frankfurt/Oder
31 M,`arrh 1950
rA train of 23 boxcars, occupied by about 200 officers
ranking from second lieutenant to captain and about 2400
young soldiers without (;ecorations, wearing red-bordered
black coaulets...
The train also carried fifteen new, urnumbered,, tAo=-axle
trucks and fifteen new "IT guns of 70 to 80 rnm caliber
with muzzle brake, about 3;,5--meter-long barrels, gun
>i;ield., split-trail gun carriage and single _:neumatic
tire;
The officers and soldiers were dispatched for JLnterbog
(N 52/F 69) and the trucks and guns to Magdeburg (M 53/Y 67)
during the night of 31 ;,;arch l950 , according to a Frankfurt/
O(ar railroad emcloyee of the train dispatch office,
3.: ;phi l.e passing through I' eu =-Ben t-schen (0 53/w 153),
observed a train enroute to Brest, The train stopped at the
station the morning of 31 March 1950, Twelve tanks with
five bogie wheels on each side and three-.meter==long barrels
without muzzle brake could be seen on the train,
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not observe any other military trains on his
round tri;;,, Except at Brost all :lb-olish stations on the
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I: i. .r:_h~nt of ersor.nel and .,J teriel from the Soviet Union..
The off jeers t? ere s i,..,.ed to tt e Soviet None of Ger.m any
under the known rer;lace::ent ,roc;-rum (young; bachelor
officers from tike Soviet, TJni3n re lacin older, nurr.ied
o i'f icers who Lave served? in the Soviet one of Cerm&i y
for several years) ; T e :'?rl /,'ere 5hirf.ed to the Soviet
,one. of Gerr..fany to fill vacancies?
avscuation of T3 tanks to the Soviet Union,, probably
for repair..
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