SOVIET MILITARY RAIL AND ROAD MOVEMENTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006400840008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
TOPIC ;n of "iii-,fw"r j,ni
IAL REPORT NO-
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DATE OF CONTENT ( to l 1 i'nvra^~}'Sr~r '~ C) f~
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l.; The leave train which arrived in 1rarkf urt/Oder from Brest Litovsk on 5 i ovembor
1950 was occupied to capacity. about 5 percent of the occupants were officers
1eho apparently came to Germany for the first time. (1.) .
25X1 2. The leave train which arrived in Frankfurt/Odor fron Brost Litovsk or, 7 w ,r ber
25X1 was occupied to capacity. "arV of the occupants were officers who wont, or,
25X1 trucks to a barracks in 1'rankfurt/Odor, (1)
I 13. On 6 r vcmber, a convoy of 2u trucks
Jas observed or the JaonicJkon . 1 a e- r ir. i3 iwway. j~,ach i.-.ruck
25X1 carried 25 soldiers with red-bordered black epaulets. light 37: r~ i AAi guns and
25X1 three field kitchens were observed with the convoy, (2)
4. Daily Soviet leave traffic through 1{'ranlcfurt/Cder averaged 40 soldiers. 7oimrto
Brest Litovsk and 620 ldi
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so ens ccau" frcc, Brest Litovsk during the period from
6 Ndovetaber to 9 November. The leave trains which arrived in Frankfurt/der
on 7 November and 9 ".over:iber carried a total of 450 officers with crim -~
lets vrho went to the iiofbauer Kaserne on trucks son e au
II In the evening of 9 November, one hundre any wen y officers left for
".iagdeburg and another 150 for Dresden. (1)
5, An eastboitind troop train of 40 converted boxcars, including 20 boxcars carrying
20 -soldiers each, was seen in ~' ankfu In 6
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11 train of E boxcars loaded with military goods was en route Brest Litovsk
to 'P.iuellr,;w,; on 0 November 1950.
,;r.it :t-33 of er~ trucks went from i es Oti 3 (1t) I1 siYip-~
iemnitz-41ilhe'rsdorf on
S i' .umber 1950. (4)
7. During the night of 10 rovembor an undetermined number of tanks were loath in
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance w..'i
letter of 16 October 1C7 f:-Om
Director of Central In' "'~ ~^ 1'-0
Archivist of the United Sates.
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Comments
the i_comirs,g leave train on 30 Uctober
1950 was occupied to capacity by militnr7 personnel, anout 90 percent
of whom were officers who went to Frankfurt/0 er barracks installations
by truck Varaz~raph 4 of present reportp
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the U. 6.6 4 ? in the
II confirmed the arrival of officers from
Soviet Zone of 0ermar r. The officers were first quartered in the Hof-
bauer I aserne,, which in known as a trmisient officers' billet, and were
subsequently reassigned to the individual armies in the Soviet Zone of
a headquarters unit of the Third
Gds Mecz Arum and a component of the 9th ;.ecz Div.
Probably repatriation of soldiers due for demobilization.
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