SOVIET TROOPS LEAVING TIMISOARA AND ARAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005100490003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY_ ;:tarMr-~ .a
jDvie% Trooas Leaving Ti glsoara arid Ara-A_
:EVALUATION 25X1 C ..LACE OSTAWEDw 25X1 C
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DATE OF CONTENT- u to 10 ,.,-nril .95C? ~._...~ ._ ...~ _.._ . _... ~.. ..
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i , .rote of the soviet troops quartered in the for: ;er
5th ..fle he t 1.arrs;:acks, "TimisoarEa (1~ 16/'T 91),
left the tovin tov.iard }a.in .colaa1 ..are (Y 7/T 55)
hetaeen 7 and 10 ,:-. ril 1950'. The rvirch colurn con-
sisted of trucks carrying troops and mounted rocket
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(the last
E v o 4, a rioun e rocket launchers o The .sov iot troops
who remained in the -har!raci:s arrived in Ti'ir lsoara
on 2 .Pri 1 1950
2,, Joviet troops sir-'iu1 aneously left the Transylvanian
La.rracks 9 head in_, in the :.:same direction. They were
equipped with "heavy artillery tanks with toothed
wheels in 1ina o
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Soviet troops lent the irad (ir 16/ti 06) fortress
to;,;ard Curtiei (r 16/U 17) on 9 xi-nril 1950 4 aecord.ia
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The t.-oops who left `bir.aisoaara were. believed to have
been ones who arrived there in ..overr.Ibor 194-9.
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist oApWQ tddF8MReJease 21
tlext Rev;ew Date: 2008
01/04/19: CIA-RDP82-0045.7R
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a. According to their motor vehicle nupsbers
and their armament, the troops who left the
former 5th stifle hegt Barracks were probebly
the rocket launcher units which i e::?e observed
to move Into the barracks
on 19 i'ovember 1949
The troops who rioired into the barracks on
2 April 1950 ** were apparently stilt! there
on 10 o)rii 1950 (trucks with coupled guns
and other artillery pieces had been seen parked
in the barra17k yard)
b. The units which loft the 'Timis oars Transyl-
vanian. Larracks (probably c3P artillery units)
and the troops vho departed from ;Lrad had been
observed in the tm-Tins in Jeceniber 1949 and ;arch
1950:
It is considered possible that the units left
their quarters for field exercises or i or troop.
training grounds, i.e., atout the time when
troops in the soviet :ones of Geriany and
Austria started moving to t oop training e...reund n
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