AMMUNITION DEPOT AT TOEPEHIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008400160002-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS:FICATIO 9
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
"COUNTRY Gem (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT As rnitior Dar t at Toopehin
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DATE DISTR. 22 August 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
In Januaryr 195l .n a plan. of the ammunition depot at Toepchin (: 53/2 9 ,)
was transmitted by the depot cornandant to the Berlin regional railroad
headquarters in order to have some ninor alterations in the depot es
track system entered on it.
were subordinate to a general in Potsdam who inspected the installation
twice a year. One of the units was commanded by . ajor
Shavallo (f n.
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the unit employed 53 GerrGaa workers, including 39 who handled ammunition0
The other unit was commmnded by : Tc jor L;arinovka (fm?u), and numbered about
30 officers and 50 En?. Qn' 1 Februarys only 0 Germans were employed by this
unit. All C$erraan employees lived outside the installation.
The depot area was about 2 km square and was subdivided
Two Soviet units were stationed at the amrrrunition depot. They allege
In mid-December= 1.950., nearly all the officers of the a ~-nun.; Lion depot were
repAced0 One of the officers said that he was to attend a ;course Potsdam.
On 19 December 1950, about 20 German workers? mostly women, were discharged
by the ammunition depot without an explanation. No replacements were hired
by 13 January 1951.
6,., '.:orkc at the depot between 15 Jaruarl end 10 February 1951 include..-
1.5 to 27 January. Cleaning and crating of 120-mm !, tells which were about
?56 cm long Trithout fuses. The semifixed cartridge had a length of about
30 cm. One box containing 2 shells and 2 cartridges e. hed about 70 IT Packing slips ware put in each box. Cleaning and crating of rifle ammunition
in a packin shed. An -,unidentified number "of boxes, each containing 1,000
rifle cart;jades, and an additional shipment of light mortar shells were
loaded in four railroad cars during the night of 26 January,, Loading work was
usually clone at night by 6ovi et soldiers only,
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28 to 31 January,, Cleaning and crating of 120-m n shells which were
56 cam long without fusee. A semifixed cartridge had a length of 30 cm
A box containing 2 shells and 2 cartridges weighed 70 kg.
1 to 10 February Cleaning-;,, crating and loading of mortar shells wh>ch
had a maximum diameter of 14 cm and a tail with 12 fins~ A box containing
two shells weighed 45 kg., Packing slips were put in each box. The
daily quota of 1-35 mortar shells for a group of eight female workers was
seldom fulfilled. 0
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Ammunition shipments which arrived at the ammunition depot at Toepoh
between 9 December 1950 and ]i February 1951 included 2
ahiJTllent From, Time and Date
27 boxcars;
2 boxcars
10 boxcars
7 boxcars;
Frankfurt/Oder
at 3 a.m. on 9 December
Frankfurt/oiler;
at 3 p.m4 on 9 December
Frankfurt/Oiler;
at 8 a.m. on 15 December
Frankfurt/Oder;
at 8 a.m. on 15 December
Tretzdorf
at 1 p.m? on I January
Fr1nkf rt/ er;
at 11a.m. on 9
January
Frankfurt/Oder;
at 8 p.m, on 10 January
Frankfurt/Oder;
at noon on 8 February
10 boxcars Frankfurt/Oder;
at 10%20 a.m. on 14 Ferbz
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30 boxcars
Ammunition shipments which were dispatched by the ammunition
Toepchin between 27 January and 22 February included:
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4 boxcars;
1 boxcars;
Destination Time and Date
Altengrabowr;,
at 6:30 p.m. on 27 January
Roeedaroma;
at 6230 p.m. on 27 January
Neubrahdenburg;
at 6:30 p.m. on 27 January
A1terLhain;
at 6230 Pam. on 27 January
depot at
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Desstination, Time and rate
Altengrabc v';
at 6:10 pmm,~ on 31. January
Gervisch;
at 6 :10 p?m? on 31 Janus
Dannerrwaslde;
at 6:20 p.m. on 9 February
Wilcipaark;
at 6 pE,m? on 10 February
Alten;rabow;
at 5 : 55 p9 m,, on 15 February
Unknown;
in the evening on 22 February
jor rinovka, fnu),p was probably confused pith Lieutenant Colonel
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Probably the ammunition shipment of 38 boxcars
which, coming from best Lltovslc Was seen
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in Frani .f
urt Oder on .
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from Brest L .tovsk were observed in. Frankfurt/Cder on 9 January 1951o
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(9) ossibly the shipment of 30 boxcars with wmmition which came frc n Brest
o a the shipment of 20 boxcars with unition which
from F_inow to Toepehin
on 2k F.ubru rcr 1 C) 1L
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