SOVIET AAA TROOPS AT THE APOTLAN AAA RANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500520006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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The followin ains with Soviet troops and :.iateriel arrived at 7;a1.1rn
(P 48t1 34) on 16 July 1951:
About 11:20 aano Train of 37 cars with out 20 officers and about
100 R' wearing red-bordered black epaulets 6 to 8 heavy artillery pieces,
1 ballistic director, 15 trucks, jeep I field kitchen, 5 boxcarloads
of Inmrm-eni P.i nn _ nM l nwrl nmd of fun
eavyartillery pieces, I searchli;;ht, jccp 13 trucks one, 1 field
About 1 x9orL0 Train ~,f 2a boxcars with about 25 officors, about 100 7j',:,, 8
About 6 -)-rl0 Frain of 32 cars with about 30 officers, about 120 E."P 3 heavy
artillery pieces, 1 ballistic director, 13 trucks, and 2 field kitchoris. Twelve
the train had come from Goepfritz (0 1.9/It 64)o
2,, Soviet troops and materiel departing from .r -Llern by rail on Ic and 17 July
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16 . A unit, which had been waiting for entraining since
with artillery pieces, 1 searchlight, 2 field kitchen
and an undetermined number of motor vehicles. Vehicle
.counting a searchli it
lu Ju A unit with motor vehicles
and 4 ar?t;ille iiecesfl The train
departed toward Neusiedl (P t8/X 76)p
17 Jul d :afar ~relxicles
had arrived from Apetlon P 18 18 X 7 the day before but could not be 50X1-HUM
loaded, the same day because of heavy ra"
On 19 July, troops at Apetlon were seen firing with individual artille ry
pieces. The trajectory of the shells passed throuh two frames. ?;ork
on the approach roads to Camp Apetlon was accelor?.tedG. Farmers living
in the vicinity were drafted for hauling gravel.. The name of the Soviet
lieutenant, who was provost marshal in Carp Am Mon, was Bertram., (fnu a, rather
than rsnov, (fnnu), as was previously reported.
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