SOVIET MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS ON THE FRANKFURT/ODER BREST LITOVAK LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200330002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY 'olo_nca and ,poiisia ccu_plee uerg.nv_ REPORT NO
TOPIC ~4Ja le avia'a ait:.t,y .q:x i E. ..; 'V~1la~t1L on the r'rankruri/yaer
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DATE OF CONTENT l0 to 25 ..nri.i 150
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1. In Brost Litovsk the engine of the coal train was
used for switching purposes for two days. it moved
4 and 6-axle flatcars from the western and south-
ern railroad stations to the northern stations
where about 180 flatcars had been assembled at
the end of shunting activity on 21 ~pril 195C.
2. An unusually large number of officers and men of
artillery end tank units 9 but no units or materiel
to be entrained, were seen at the Brest forth sta-
tion s
3. .';bout 15 unnumbered trucks were observed on the
train which stopped in ,utno ("` 53/0 89) on 17 j ri l
1950. The guns on that train had a 3 to 4-'meter-'long
barrel with muzzle brake n a gun shield with rouru ed
corners and twin wheels with pneumatic ' tires. The,
gun carriages could not be seen.' The train in-
cluded 20 boxcars occupied by officerZ and men. **.
4, The guns which were unloaded in Frankfurt/Odor on
25 April 1950 had a i .iber estimated at 150 mm9 a
split-trail carriage,, dual disk wheels with per-
forations, solid rubber tires,, about d.5-'meter-'long
barrel of %7hich a .2o oter.Zone section projected from
the semi-circular gun shie].c,and no muzzle brake.
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5a No other military shipments were observed on
either trip. There ww,ere no stoppages or con-
gestions in roil traffic.
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yr the TCOmm ;T gun, model 1944, the bar-
rel of which, h.ourever, is almost 6 meters
long, including the muzzle brake
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p acexaen coupled to a train hauling material.
**#5X1X ?+omrxments The description checks with
e J _m=m X38 field hotvitzer a The unload-
in ; of this type of Gun in r ankfurt/Gder -ny
indicate that the ioviot Occupation Forces
'Germany v;eie not yet equipped : ith the latest
1943 model with a muzzle brakes
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