GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900100010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION
undetermined number of flatcars carrying about 20 artillery pieces
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1. A train en route from.Leutsch toward Leipzig at 4:30 p.m.
15 trucks,
2. The troops$ who arrived in the Rerseburg-Leipzig area on 25 and 26 October, were
seen departing in a westerly direction on 28 and 30 October, 25X1X
it was only a practice march. The halls,, which had previously been requisitioned,
were not used as the troops bivouacked in the woods. (2)
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3, Troops'wearing red-bordered black epaulets were seen loading trucks,
included: Five boxcars with troops wearing red-bordered black epa
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(3) A. train seen en route from Magdeburg toward Haldensleben at 3 p.m. on 31
October carried trucks (4) On 2 25X1C
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November, a train of 35 to 110 cars was seen moving toward iriagdeburg from the
direction of Haldensleben. It carried trucks3 and about 25
5VAtanks with five bogie :wheels, including tanks and
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Comments.
the train carried a unit from Altenburg of the
38th (?) AT Arty Brig of the XXIX Gds I.Itz Rifle Corps in Merseburg and Altenburg.
It may have been on its way to the post in Altenburg via Leipzig. Since there
would be about 200 troops in the five boxcars, the number of artillery pieces
appears to be disproportionally high,
the troops belonged to components of the XXVIII Gds Irltz Rifle Corps,
predominantly to elements of the 20th Gds Dietz Div. Components of these units
were observed by,a third source in the entraining area along the Dessau-Magdeburg
railroad line on 28. and 29 October 1951 upon, completion of the fall exercises of
the Eighth Gds Army west of Dessau.
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tank units of the 7=h Gds
Tank Div were" 'entrhined in Genthin on 30 October l?,51, This informa--
tion again confirms the departure of the division upon completion
of the field ercises in the area northeast of Magdeburg. If troops
have actually been detrained in 33,3sg as is indicated by the present
report, it was probably reshuffling troops to their units, See
a unit of the 6th Arty Div.
the train seen on 31 October carried
25X1C (5) the train carried an element
of the 19th Gds Liecz Div, he unit probably returned to its winter
quarters in i1agdeburg,
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