SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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CIA-RDP82-00457R011700270006-1
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
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December 22, 2016
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March 9, 2011
Sequence Number: 
6
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Publication Date: 
May 8, 1952
Content Type: 
REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/09: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700270006-1 ~-..r..- CLA.SSIFICAI"IC~NM' ~_ ~;'~,._`.~.'~ `'`'_.. ~r ~~ ta:. ;aEDUTtITY I:3F I-Li`fIOIJ COUNTRY_---' TOPIC-. `~~ Soviet Troop Trairts EVALUATION- DATE OF CONTE!k DATE OBTAINED. 50X1 -HUM military shipments Shipments 9 ?:arch 2 flatcars with 1 boxcar with escorting air force personnel wcarin, blue branch-of-service insignia 12 1;0rch 5 boxcars and lrest Litovsk 13 flatcars with jet-propelled aircraft 13 March 1 boxcar with escorting personnel and 2 flatcars with 2 tanks mounting 80-rixi guns, with 6 large track- sup.porting rol? ers,, 1 drive wheel and 1 idler wheel 1 boxcar and h flatcars with 4:. tanks of the sa_:e type as mentioned above Brest Litovsk between 9 and 13 i.arch Klausa, Soviet Ari:Tj Glauchau, iJolira near .dcir it CLASSIFICATION SECR>T/CONT 2OL/Us OF: 'ICIAm Ority Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/09: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700270006-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/09: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700270006-1 SECRET/CCNTI OVIUS OF 'IC 1 boxcar and Brest Litovsk 2 flatcars with 2 tanks of the sarr type as mentioned above Halle, (3) 2. T he following numbers of Soviet r:~.ilitary per sonn el were obserred aboard l eave trains i n Frankfurt/Oiler between 9 and 111 I.;arch: D ate To Lest Litovsk Fro m Brest Litovsk 9 Larch 210 and 220 200 and 180 10 lbrch 190 and 200 190 and 200 11 ,.larch 203 and 210 190 and 210 3Y, T roop trains l oaded at the .Oran onburg railr oad station with units from 50X1 -HUM the SS Kaserne, Oranienburg, on 29 February included: a train of 4 boxcars with soldiers and 22 flatcars with an un:cnown number of :1T -u..is of about 45-nn p 13 trucks and 1 ambulance at 3:15 p.m.; a train of about 10 boxcars with soldiers and an unknown number of flatcars with 15 x 76,2-mm field guns, 1 rocket launcher, 15 mortars, 3 radio trucks and about 3.) trucks, 0 p.m.; and a train 50X1-HUM carrying about 40 truck________________________ s with soldiers$ including some with artillery insign iaa at p.m, e three troop trains left toward Loewenborg? (4) Troop trains coming, from the direction of Loewenberg and pas&; ing t1wough the Oranienburg railroad station on 9 March includeth a train of 8 boxcars with soldiers and 16 flatcars with 6 x 85-sm AA guns and 10 t -ucks, proceeding toward Kremman at 10:50 a,.mo; and a train of 7 boxcars with soldiers and an unknown number of flatcars carrying about 1G0 trucks, Corirnts. (1)fine" f Rion -apparently is a normal supply shipment to an air force unit at Altenburg airfield from V -a resin air force depot at -~trausber-, (2)Including the shipment r:ienti.onod in paragraph 1, a tote. of 78 crate;: 50X1-HUM containing jet--propelled aircraft has been ship_)ed to Koothon since 19 January 3.952, Thy included 50 crates addresved to an unidentified air force unit,, probably a ground attack unit to be cqui.?ped with jet--propel?ed aircraft of M:iiG15 type? . On 1 ,:.arch 1952, 15 crates were delivered to an unidentified now fighter regiment. It is believed that the shipment on 12 :.:arch 1952 mentioned in paragra_h 1 of the present re-ort Was also consignod to the new fighter regriment Which appears t.3 have boe50X1-HUM As the troops came from the Ss Kasorre, the second and third troop train 50X1-HUM -mentioned in paragraph 4 fairly definitely carried and the carried co onents of the 25th Tank Div (5 e troop train observed at 12:50 p,m, carried a headquarters si al unit of the Second Gds 'Lecz Army from Fuerstenber r.qichF went to Dessau, ,c ,T/COU 0L/ o 7xc rALS )NLY 2 sedans, 6 radio trucks and 2 jeeps 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/09: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700270006-1