SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900290006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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n AT guns fa x 57-n AiT u s x !20-w no a . and ' to 16 trues
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1, On 31 July 1952 a troo., train v.' s loaded at the Doc, tz railroad station?
which vie at from Fran.kfurt/odor to I;aldensleben 12)
Between 22 and 31 July . The transfer to Jueterhog, Ai- lc:s Lat- er tee; o personnel
t Cottbus airfield, On 2." J111V. n tni ?t 25X1
On 26 Ju1. ;r> A train of` 0 cars with disasser;',1ed artillery 1 r'c aos^~1r1 25X1
cars, enon olded Vrith trio boxes, 2.5 x l.5 peters, ottbus
airfield,, arrived et the Cottbus railroad station., where the cars have been still
a;1 served on 31 Ju? o it is fairly definitely hell eyed tiro they will be dispatched
to Jueter1:.oe In.con~iunction --th the transfer of the above unity (3)
to . eissrrasse
daily s'rz n - s 2 or 3 x 54-ton Stalin tanks front Cottbus
3. Loadings ? identified in the ,are of the 3d Subdistrict Office of the Br rlin rail-
road district beti?r enn 4 d 14 July include :
Shi"'x1ents
33 cars with
Vehicles
27 cars with troops and
military- goods
2 boxcars, 11 flatcars
and .11 SS-t;.L e flatcars
with artillery pieces
63 cars with vehicles
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ncz ate
1Curr.ersdorf to
rarkkfurt/Odor
4 July
iiehagean -Klasudorf to
.Jueterbog
5 July
Jueterbo' to Frankfurt,
Oder
5 July
Jueterhog to Frankfurt/
Oder
10 July
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1~,3 cars frith vehicles
a.nd nrtillexy pieces
JueterhoC to the
U.S.S.R
1) 1 July
Troop trains listed in the records of the '.th
railroad district on 26 ant: 27 July included:
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y y i~roop 7'rai.ns
26 13 boxcars and
20 f'1^tcnrs
ia tank cars with
"asoline
9 boxcars and
20 fl^ tears
27 ill boxcars and
22 flatcars
20 boxcars and
25 f`-1 tears
1iO boxcars and
119 S :latcars
Date in Corino, tion of
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Iroop fr3ni.ns
To
2n 12 converted boxcars, Boetzow :1i.tengrabow
7 boxcars and 62 flatcars
h converted boxcars, 3 boxcar Ra henow: Finster tilde
and 29 f1 tcars
5 boxcars and 16 Flatcars 1,I tcenCrabow Premnitz
with vehicles
29 2 converted boxcars, Daligaw; Hennersdorf
1 boxcar and 11 fir tears
(7)
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possibly gent to #1tengrabotw,, is belevoo to have carried .a ;;orl--
bined rtillc. f unit of the 1st ecf Div.
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The t rar.sfer frori Cottbus iirficld of ground units, .A .arty ery an e-2 ,panes
of the 1--ouber reg"irient has been >rev'iousl.y reported. Gorz are L e two, trains from
Cottbus to Jueterhog-Altes L~;~-er or, 27 July 1952 she
Present resort, indicates that the movement si.?nted on 22 July .L9120
(`i The two troop t rains to i1tengrabow and rjj i tez't^t'a. C;e ' o 'e t_ a _ e p.
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the trains, hoerever, has been different4
Hennersdorf railroad station as mentioned in the present report is sitvated south-
cost of Chenn_itz; there is no explanation as to vrhy components of the 1st :?*ecz Div
,lhould have been dispatched to this ar?
On 2? July 1952,, rocket launchers of the G(F'G were lo.^ded on two troop ;;rains at
f , 'f t.'? ..;'~ , ion; ; the train from hltencrabC7."r to 1'.lt2.tf `uS e t Ono
in ' paraf ,.rah 5 nay have been one of these trai. ns.,
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