MILITARY INFORMATION FROM ALTENGRABOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011700290001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 9 :.-arch 1952, a troop train of 20 boxcars anc: 20 E_,ondola cars ryas un-
loaded at the A.1tengrrbow (I.' S3/Z 00) railro^d station. 'she train came
from Rathenow and carried coterpillor tractor:
towine, 12 x 122-t=it;. ;uns, ca orpz ar tractors
toriint. 1; x 76 , 2- , uns and true cs
On 10 -,arch
train included: caterpillar tractors
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equipment un oa ed
tom inI2 x 1 2 ih guns two ca erpi ar rec ors vri rat ers:,
and trucks
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2. on 13 "?~arch, a troop train o 20 boxcars anc: 20 ?_ondola cars ryas loaded
at the Altent raboly railroad r~i th caterrillar t.r~=ctors .' A -1 *1
pieces, ca, erpillar tractors
-u.ns , anc; trucks
torrin ; 3 x 76.2-mm
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3, on 16 -arch, 25 cars carr,,?inc tuns of 76.2-r?r;i and 122-mr. and ammunition,
cc,,:.inC. frori Frankfurt/Odor, arri.ed at the AltenCrabor. railroad station.
troop train of 30 boxcars - d 10 y?ondola cars unloaded on 17 I:arch
ary iPd 11: x 120-.m mortars, trucks
and trucks
cas re-entrained on 19 a?'arcna
?r~ Twelve ro ke?
trucks anti of the 2-75-xx series arrived in : ' en-
Craaorr bar road on 17 ..a.rch. Tho sate unit ::as re-entrai.nc6 at the 1,lton-
CraboT: railroad station on 19 :arch. (h) 50X1-HUM
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6. On 21 March, a troop train was loaded at the Altengrabow railroad station
with 12 x 7602-mm v. duns
7. On 21 "?:rcii, a troop train was loaded at the Altengrabow railroad station
with 12 x 76.2-mm AA uns and trucks
Another troop train was loaded with 12 x 7 .2-mm
kLt. guns and vehicles
3. Troop trains loaded at the Altengra'bow railroad st.'t.on on 22 March in-
cluded: a train of 1O cars with 12 x 76.2 .A guns and trucks
a train of 0 cars with 14 x 76~~ mM .guns an _trucks
a train of 0 cars with 12 x 76.2-mm AA guns and
trucks and a train with 12
rocket launchers
at the Alten rabo~^r railroad station trucks mounting heavy 50X1-H
On 23 MG roh
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machine guns were loaded on a train which allegedly went to Gotha. The
trucks were numbered 50X1 -H
10, On 21 Liarch, a shipment of 3I new trucks left the Alten,rabow railroad
station a17 ogedly for Brest Litovsk. 50X1-HU
11. At 11 a.m. on 26 March, a troop train of five boxcars with soldiers wearing
red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia, and an unknown number
Of flatcars carrying 1t x 122-mm field howitzers, 1 jeep and 1 ?rueks
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ras unloaded at the Alten ;rata rail-
road station. Another troop train consisting of 12 boxcars with soldiers
re~arinE; red bordered blast: epaulets, and of an unknown number of flatcars
carr in 16 x 122-rim howitzers 1 jeep and 25 tracks
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ryas unloaded at 2 p.am. on the same day. The unit drove to the 1nrth
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Comments.
trains, nents of the 6th Arty Div from Rathenow
The train was loaded by a component or e uiv.
The unit unloaded on 17 March and reloaded on 19 March belonged to the
65th (?) Mort Brig from tiathenow.
The unit which had arrived by road belongs to the unidentified rocket
launcher regiment of the XXIX (ids Pty Rifle Corps in Leipzig-Schoenau
and was re-entrained on 20 ".arch 1952.
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S .CURITY II:FORMATION
,On 18 March a troop train carry ink, 12 rocket launchers
was unloaded at the Altenrabow railroad station. (
and trucks
troon train with rocket launchers trucks
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(~) The unit unloaded on 10. rc:? 1912 t'elon.. i to t e u_ri.doutificd rocket launcher
ror-inent o7 the XXVITT Cds "tz Rifle Cor,.'s in 3t,n1felt'.
?,jnloc.:c.a.n[ of unit frog: Hallo of tl_L unidentified 'u nrd.i rocket la.unclier5OX1-HUM
battalion of the 21st , ds I"ecz .Div.
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The troop Crain on 21 ',arch carried on unit of th?- 10th Cus i ank Div
(3) The troop trnin;, reritior:ed in :tarn; rcphs 7 and 3 included: 2 trel.ns V",ith
com;,orrcnts of the 13th !AA Div on 21 : rch 1952; 3 trains v itli r " units of
the 20th Cds :"ecz Piv, thr 9th C:ds lank Div and the 21st Ods :'ecz ,jiv, Pr-C, 1
train .?:ith elements o l" the unidentified rocket launcher rej it c nt of the
XXWII I (ids :.'tz Rifle Corps on '22 .arc" 1952. On 23 . = rcl: l952, a co=n portent
of the 57th Cc's :'tz dflc Div ras loaded' on the troop train rentioned Lr_
parar..raph 9.
(9) components of the 6th Arty, Div ?r ere unloaded from tiw. two troop treins on
26 Thrch 1952,
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