SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS BY RAIL.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000090010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE PREPARED 25 Sept.nT:hnr 1951.
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No Soviet troop trains passed the border at Scheune between 26 August and
2 September 1951.
2, Ti,c follow:ii , Soviet troop trains :re listed in the records of the Rathenor, 25X1
ra1road station:
Date Composition of ion To
I oo}., trains .....
25 August 6 boxcars and 20 flatcars Altongraboc .:ehdcnick
25 Aui-ust 6 boxcars and 31 flatcars Tangerhuette Zehdenick
9 September 11 boxcars and 27 flatcars Alten?,rabow Vogelsang;
9 September 11 boxcars and 27 flatcars /ltengrabovi Vogelsang
3. The following Soviet troop trains, either loaded or empty, were listed in
the; records of the 3d Subdistrict Office of the Berlin railroad district
bei.ween 6 and 10 September 1951:
Date Co. Position of From To
roop Trains
6 September 40 flatcars,,. empty Schoeneraoide ]iobrilu :k
7 yep i,e .bcr 15 boxcars and 26 flatcars, Kuinr ersdor# Schwerin
empty
7 september 10 boxcars and 28 flatcars, Ku=?:ersdorf Schrvcrin
empty
7 3eptember 11 boxcars and 4 gondola L'allgow- Luckenvialde
cars, Dooberitz
32 flatcars, ompty
8 September 12 boxcar. s and h7 flaaars, Luckenwalde !yeustrelitz
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11. .-1 troop train which ;sassed throu,:h Dc-cli tz-heilstaetten toward. Felzig at 25X1 B
125 +..:r, on 15 September ' nut. 200 trnn-ns wea3dnr black-bordered
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red epaulets aax 17 trucks
.1 unit which was detrained 1:1!.0 am. on
it AA guns and 20 trucks.,
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-and mounted AA i;ach!ne gains.
5. troop train which passed through FIoyerswerda toward Senftenberg on 13 Sep-
,craoer consisted of 50 cars and was loaded with troops and trucks having
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:3eptembcr loaded with troops, ship- Luckenrralde
(cc:ritinuCC) ment-record 4110 75971
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9 September 147 flatcars, empty Schoeneweide TDobrilug;k
9 September 1:8 flatcars, empty Schoeneweide Dobrilugk
9 September 8 boxcars and 33 flat- Luckenraldo bitterfeld (5)
cars; loaded with troops
_0 3eptember 14.3 flatcars, empty Schoenevreide Lobrilugk
Another troop train which
:7assed-through Hoyerswerda toward Falkenberg on 15 September also consisted
.of 50 cars, An undetermined number of troops with 10 guns of 30-mm to
100-r~ .. were soon on the train. (9)
6. w: ,tbound train which passed through the Cottbus railroad station at 5:30
cr. 16 ieptonber consisted' of 7 boxcars occupied by troops; several
"ia cars carr/ing i, trucks, 3 sedans, 1 radio truck and T-314/85 tanks 025X1
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7. Troap trains which passed through the Frankfurt/Oder railroad station on
16 '3eptember, coming from the direction of Cottbus, included a Schvxerin-
ihou d train of 9 boxcars and 1.3 flatcars, and an 25X1
_ nei'sw-alde-.bound traba of 19 boxcars, 20 Ilatcaro and 19 converted boxcars,
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denick railroad station on 26
ugust 1951. The
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`ra:,n probably effected the return movement of the engineer component of the
:E~ ou.'th Cds Aiecz lrmzy which rent to the J angerhuette engineer training area
on a train of out the sane number of cars on 21 August 1951. 0 25X1
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(3 c trains possibly carried headquarters units of the Fourth Gcs i,'ecz ii
returning from Altengrabow, 25X1
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(a; 1 ae train possibly carried a .component of the 9th Gras Tank Div. 25X1A
25X1A I . An element of the division's 2314th Dort Regt was detrained
Luckcn:alde on 5 septembcr 1951 ,
(5) .4 rocket launcher unit of the XXIX Gds l..tz Rit'lo Corps possibly returned to
its home station in LcipziL-Schoenau aboard this train. Six rocket laun-
che:.-s of this unit were ro nortec. to have been entrained in Jueterbog; on
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and components o the uz._dentifieci AL. division of the A'ourth Gds ,, ecz .?ri r0
scilT
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I he in may be one of the two trains which left J' ltengrabovi for Zehdenick
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on ?5 August 1951
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the unit detrained wns component o1.' the
7U: Ods L.ecz Diva
the train carried a component of t a. 9t,',
k,ecz yv vt 2ich has pro a? ;,- loaded at the.- Spreefurt (Ui ,?st) railroad
station, southwest of the issnasscr troop trai.ni,r;; _raunds, on the
:e'r~risa rch-Iloyc rsworda line,
{9) Pc:: ibly a scrics of trains carryin components of the 9th recz Diva
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