SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002500730007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE PREPARED 15 SepteLber 1953
ENCLOSURES (i10. &TYPE)
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1. On 21 August 1953, niliUry shipments includod:
a shipmont of 6 boxcars occupied b; troops gearing red-ordered black epaulets;
L clos-d boxcars: and 16 flatcars with sideracks carrying 15 trucks
from Darby to Fuerstenberg;i a shipment or
1 boxcar occupied by trop; and 25 closed boxcars from ,;auen to Vogelzang; a
shipment of 1 boxcar occupies by troops, and 4 flatcars with Aderacks carrying
trucks from Neustrelitz to Wustermark; and a shipment of 8 boxcars occupied by
troops, 3 closed boxcars, and 31 flatcars with sideracks, carry:Ing 30 trucks
with covered numbers, 3 canvas-covered guns with barrels, about 2 meters long,
and 1 field AitcheA, fron Jueterbog-Altes Lager to Bernau.2
2. The following troop trains from Doeoeritz to Neustrelitz
between 27 August and 1 September:
C/B - converted boxcar
B - boxcar
F flatcar
SSy - heavy duty flatcar
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Comp.sition of Troop Train
27 August
13 C/B, 2 B, 16 SSy, 5 F
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7 F, 10 C/B, 1 B, 6 SSy
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7 F. carrying 7 trucks
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and 1 jeep; 11 C/B,
and 1 B, occupied by 150 trops wearing red-,bordcarRd
black enaulets: and 5 SSy carrying T 34/85 tanks
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1 Septomber 3 F, 10 C/B 3 B and 7 SSy, carrying JS tanks
SU gun 4 T-34/85 tanks
red-bordered black epaulets.
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trucks
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from Cottbus to Damgarten,
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a train of 64 axUs
on 31 aufust;4 and a train of
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13 tscr(cars and 11 flatcars from Dallgow to Neustrolitz
on 1 September. 3
the following railroad crs had to be made available
Fuerstenwalde, which went to
on. 3 SeptsMeer: 1 boxcar and 4 flatcars each in
Riesa and T.oenizsbrueck
38 boxcars in Aleilrose,
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13 boxcars
in Satzhorn
and 3 boxcars in Taltow-rt.
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5. Shipments dispatched for tne KVP iocludod two trains 'Lash with an undeterminod
of _ 1,000 i.,ens from Treuenbristzer to :Aorkor on 1 and 2 Soptember0 three
trains each with an undetermined load of 1,000 tons from Greifswala to Potsdam,
Cottbus and Sachsenhauson, the latter train with 62 axles; and a 50-axle train
carrying an undetermined load of 750 tons from Creifswald to Sachsenhausen, on
2 September.7
6. Troop trains observed at the Frankfrt/Oder railroad station includoth
Date in Composition of
TrqatTrain
17 1 train carrying 74 armored
scout cars
19 3 trains, each carrying
12 x 85-mm AA guns, 20 to
25 trucks with covered
numbers; troops and
officers with dependents
22 1 train, carrying 12 x 37-mm
AA guns trucks, with
covered numbers, and troops
4.
e'en
From
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
To
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankfurt/Oder S
Brest-Litovsk 9
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Brest Litovsk
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Comment, ?Do eiely train whfch,
irom harby to the Berlin railroad district on 1,),
Lgsslmhats This train
units of the 6th Gds Lecz Div.
Comment. These four trains with units
confirmed.
Co4ent. These shipments continue the
from the ..v;elzow airfield near Cottbus.
carried AAA
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of the 1st Mecz Div were repeatedly
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movements to Puetnitz near DamFarten
of air force elements
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Comment. The trains are fairly definitely believed to have
Cemmeet. Treuenbrietzen and Kuech;nsee near Sterkow are known
en7ineer battalions of the KVP. Shirments between the two eosts have
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carried equie,,,est,
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as tosts of
reseatedly
hnon rorn-tn.
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Comment. Che trains from the Greifsvyald district probably carried wealens
and equirment and, possibly, also personnel of the TV 4000, which was transferred
to KVP units in Potsdam and aranien urglend the TVs 3000 and 6000.
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Co!onent. About 400 armored scout cars and armored personnel carriers have
been shipped to East Gqrnny after iay 1953. The armored scout cars oF.;erved
pos:-.bly forwarded to the Third Gds lcz Army.
Comment. It apear6 improbable tat the trains should have gone to. 50X1-HUM
Litovsk. AAA shipments went from. Frankfu-t/
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