CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/03/03

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02682858
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: March 18, 2019
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2019
• Publication Date: March 3, 1951

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SUMMARY 
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1. Division of North Korean VI Corps receives active role in 
forward area (page 3). 
2. French estimate Viet Minh capabilities (,page 3). 
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3. Large numbers of empty boxcars move east from East 
Germany (page 3). 
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FAR EAST 
1. Division of North Korean VI Corps receives active rWe in forward 
area: 
Comment: The VI Corps is one of 
the three North Korean corps which began moving southward from 
Manchuria late in January. The 19th Division is the first unit of 
these three corps known to have arrived in the forward area. Com-
munist plans for a "Fourth Phase" offensive, possibly to occur in 
March, may rely heavily on such relatively fresh units. 
2. French estimate Viet Minh capabilities: 
A French official in Tonkin has informed 
US Consulate Hanoi that the Viet Minh can 
regroup and resupply themselves suffi-
ciently within three weeks to launch another offensive in the Red 
River Delta and, in such an event, probably would achieve better 
coordination than in the January attack. The official added that 
there was, however, no indication that an imminent Viet Minh ac-
tion was planned. 
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3. Large numbers of empty boxcars move east from East Germany: r 
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February four trains of approximately 
sixty empty boxcars each and one or two trains of sixty flatcars 
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equipped with side racks were dispatched daily from Frankfurt-
am-Oder to Brest Litovsk. since 15 Feb-
ruary most locomotives in the Frankfurt-am-Oder area have been 
employed on missions to the east. 
Comment: This is the first report that 
large numbers of boxcars have moved east. If it is true, approxi-
mately 3,000 boxcars would be involved. Beginning February 20, 
unusually large numbers of empty flatcars capable of transporting 
military equipment and/vehicles (although only a few can carry 
tanks) were assembled at various points in the Soviet zone and 
moved east to Brest Litovsk. In view of these reports, an influx 
of Soviet military units into East Germany, possibly destined for 
the still largely-unoccupied Zossen-Wuensdorf area, is a distinct 
possibility. About 1,800 freight cars are required to transport 
one full-strength Soviet mechanized division; the number of cars 
believed to have moved eastward would suffice for about three 
divisions. 
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