SOVIET MILITARY MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100240005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germarq (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Soviet Military Movements
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
25X1
20 Oct. 1950
THIS 16 4141-0441-1-JAX RMATION 25X1
document Is hereby regraded to
FIDEN'TIAL in accordance with the
r of 16 October 1978 from the
ctor of Central Intelligence to the
ivist of the United States.
x Review Date: 2008
1a Fifty-five tanks, twenty piece , forty d three re-
connaissance cars of the 19th Guards Mechanized Division were loaded on
trains in ileu Haldensleben between 26 and 30 September 1950? Thirty-six
more tanks awaited loading. Source did not determine the destination of
the shipment e *
20 Three trains from Lieberose, consisting of boxcars and flatcars, were un-
loaded in the D8beritz-Gross Behnitz area bet~;aen 1 and 3 October."
3. An undetermined number of trains, bearing military units, left Schwerin
on 12 October,. One headed for '7iesenburg0 "*
4, An undetermined number of troops yore unloaded from three trains in
Zehdeniek on 12 October and were carried to camps in the Tenplin area
in vehicles belonging to the 6th Guards Mechanized Division, the 25th
Tank Division and headquarters units of the 4th Guards Army.
50 On 13 October about ninety trucks and eight pieces of artilleiv of the
10th Guards Tank Division were detrained in Zehdenicko""'~
25X1 A Cotnme.at a The trains were possibly on route to the Third Shock A=y
maneuver grounds in the Magdeburg -Dessau area
25X1A
E C s The detraining of elements of the 7th Guards Mechanized
Di;;
io. from Lieberose in the area west of Berlin indicates the possi-
25X1 A bility of major exercises by elements of the lth Guards Mechanized ArrV.
25X1A
L-JaMD&L' These were probably component units of the' 94th Guards_ Motorized Rffl
Division, poosibly en route to the fall maneuvers of the Third shock Army.
Source saw too southbound trains carrying elements of this division pass-
ing throu. ih 'Tittenbergs on 2 and 3 October.
~~ Co en Another report said that units of the 19th Guards Tank Divi-
sion from the Potsdam-Kranpnitz-Gross Glienicke area -mre due to depart on
1 October.
CONFIDENTIAL