1. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS AT THE TEMPLIN TRAINING AREA 2. CONSTRUCTION OF A TANK ROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012200170003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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~~i(~F i~ i 24111 S ~aFO .6a1ION
?{)! TI C'` .:anv (Soviet ZnrID)
to Arrival of Troor_s at the Temnlin Trai-nine Aren
OPIC_
EVALUATION,
2. Construction of a Tan'c fln?d
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i)ATp p ~~,55 Y'ay 1952
1, The following colur;ns were observed passing throu, h Templin (T3 54/UT 51)
toward Ilan weispring:
At noon on 13 AL rile, Eight trucks with E'i and.billeti.nC eguipent,
At 3 Lrto on 17 April. ThT.rteen T-34/85 tanks
and + ks
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~Yihich were loaded :pith billeting equipment and arar::unition
The. following trains were unloaded at the Templin railroad station and. the
convoys moved toward Harnnelspring:
black-bordered . red
At 3 Ta~,m, on 1 Aprils Eight boxcars with troops wearing
epaulets grit art :der and tank insignia, 8 flatcars with sideracks carry) nn
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At 8:30 P.m. on 16ril. Twelve boxcars with about 200 soldier., wearing
re ' o7ereZ icIF epaulets,, 16 flatcars with sideracks and 15 flatcars car r~
ing an,-ored scout cars, equipr;xont of all sorts and trucks
At 6: 30 a.m. on 17 A
carrying about 0-:10
Trucks L
were seen hauling ,,?ateriel to the camps
At 10:30 aor... cn 17 Appriln ]ight T-3)4/C.5
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track vehicles and
l arr.ol ed sci u cars
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2a On 9 April,, about 40 laborers cleared a strip of woods about 8 meters parallPl
and east of the Zehdenick VrgelsanT road,
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ril? About 10 flatcars vii.th sideracks and 5 -flatcars
t .ers, pontoons, 1 motorboat and trucks
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The strip e '~en e?C I':o the south to the junction of the road ir'r, GiL'~1rt~
Don-U and the Zettden`Lck$$'oy,t'Isan r cad and tr, ,,P nnrlh 7rwro,
'Trees and s turrips ?mre r eo oved o -' l
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an unsurfaced is ?'ik road,, As yhe tgh-tension 1'_ne nolPs parallel Co -,',he
l'o~jCl were t1.~at',vC, about ~ let's farther east in
February, the ~ nk !''cad will be co nt'in_ued there',
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{~f3"I~i!'nt The coiu T [fen .? tined in ^nra{?'raph 1 of tits '?rY sFent report
-,e n ; 0 uri of the 2 #h Tank i) v and F e 6th Gds a`ecz isiv ac's also
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unloaded
our ' raino Curing the period frrri 15 to 17 r april 19` ,. A u it of
the 93d Tank ``ect of the 6th Gcds i'.ecz i'7 in Freejeriwalde vfas ,_irrobably un-
loa ed from the train on 15 April i9 2 a train
carZ"`,r]i~_': "winks passing through Eberswtalde Comin from Fr`i nwajd and
proceeding toward Templth on ~: he same day ,3
Other reports from Cranienburg, ?r'enzlau, Eber.w lde and D2rna oifir
troop i' otionent, to the Te^;pl irm troop training ;grounds dui r . t}~aZ? e_?aoa
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I:6 unloadints on 17 April 1952 were reported
1o ea on that I road
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