RAIL TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014300380004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION simT/COmm - U, S. cP'FICTALS \OIJLY
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Rail T'a fic through Frankfurt/Oder
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CGNTAINS F NFORUATIOW AFFECTIRG TH3 NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE Il6AHWNG OF TITLE ta 56CTmna Tan
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REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 20 Octvb,%r 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
J., .+c:eor-ding to the Frankfurt/ Oder border station,
the follown ra.. a panen s crossed the border, in the directions
indicated., during the Period from 10 through 14 August 1952.,
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Bate in Number and
A.e_._ Tne'of Care
a,. Westbound.
1O 96 F
11 =17 F, 19 G
Load From
31 a, 8 F
14 SPY
4 F
2 F
14 tanks
8 "
2 "
60 AT guns
with limbers
19 F. 17 G AT guns with
limbers
48 F trucks
Brest Litovsk 1berswalde (1)
15 F AT guns with
limbers
18 0 howitzers
4 F searchlights
and 4 generators
F+ eretenw de
{2)
(2)
Prenzlsu
0 lle
" Jena
(3)
(4)
(4)
13oarilugk.
(5)
Magdeburg (5)
undetermined (1)
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DISTRIBUTION
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13 36 B
14 17 RRym.s
military goods
nl ti on
34 tanks
(5)
Brest Litovsk Toepohin (6)
It . Prenzlau
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b. &atbound.
10
43 P
32 V
Neustrelitz
45
Jheterbog
43 3!2 10 B
boards
Fran kfurt f Oder
11
45 ]+'
trucks
Tu eat erbog
(I )
17 ` Zy"
eenpty tank
ahuttle train
Prenzlau
"
(7)
3.53?
trucks
Aden
25 B
military goods
Paeretenwalde
4 B
20 RRym
empty
Eberswal de
9 Says
Schwepnitz
"
(7)
Boxcar
Flatcar
Gondola car
RR *ri ,- R nJlatcar
SSyms-? SS,ma-flatoar
L:35'yr 88ys-flatcar
The Frank!urt/Oder marshaling yard has been ordered to ex edlto all goods
(8) Effeotive
x. me $ eLy~ no more gr. n shuttle trains will. be dispatched to the 73'.s.S.,R, (9)
A reserue pool of 56 RR.yw, 12 :Bytes and 36 SSys type oars has been formed
at the freight car distribution point for eventual dispatch to Breast Litovsk.,(7)
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(1) Those shipments are connected with the vehicle exchange program,
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(2) The shipping of howitzers is reported for the first time, It cannot be
detenulned whether the howitzers had a caliber of 122-man or 152-emu.. 11,
x:,a?y be assumed that the equipment was for the Volkspolizei.
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28 x 152-m howitzers we
re sent from Brest Litovsk to ' `uerstenwalde via
Frankfurt/ Oder on 16 .Mig
xst a See
Is believed
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that the two shipments w
ere not identical,
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(3)
4)
(5)
ese gun speens w
ere probably also consigned to VP units as VP
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artillery units are stat
ioned at the destinations,
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a shipment of 10
2 x 50-nn artillery pieces was space from
res
tovsk to Fuerste
nberg via Frankfurt/Odor on 9 August. S,
It is believed that the
two shipments were not identical.
(6) A large arr nuns tion depot
of the GOFG to located
I
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(7)
o a, ons eat = u d y a ca
re
and the
asse
Germ
flat
-ably of such oars in
any from the U,S,J.R
car,fin whigh two tan
dicates that still more, tanks will be moved to
~ It is interesting to note that the new RFgn t-sl pe
ks. can be loaded, was observed in use,
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The tanks observed on 11 and 14 August as
xepor e in paragraph
each flatcar . _
of the present report ' re. loaded in pal o u
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(8)
) The grain import program
of P,n.stern Go ny was essentially'oampleted ii-1
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late June 1952? See
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