SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100490005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On'12 March-1953, a trop train o: 16 boxcars and 45 flatcars with
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2, On 16 March,, a troop train of 9 coverted boxcars with military per-
sonnel$ 5 boxcars with military goods, 7 flatcars with vehicles.,
and 6 $SYYtype flatcars with tanks went from Dana w-Doeborite to Neu
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Date in Composition of From
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16 18 cars Vogelsang Dall.gow
17 9 boxcars and Wittenberg Forst Zinna
19 flatcars
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a troop train carrying, a component of
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Fourth Gds Meez Army.
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On 16 and 17 March 1953, tank details of the 6th Cede
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It was confirmed that a brigade of -
34thArty Div (US) returned by rail to Potsdam aind Wild
etion of firing practices at Jueterboga
%.s went from
Between 4 and 14 March 195-4, ii r,
Frankfurt7er to Brest Litvosko On
12 March 1953 flatcars carrying .nits r~e : aea xrom Brest Litovsk
to Lieberose:
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move to the troop training grounds in late March and early April 1951
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5, The following empty flatcars with iron side-racks went eastward
via Yrankfurt/Oder< 30 flatcara on 15 March; and 31 flatcars on
17 March which were dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder to Brest 7 Litovsk.
60 The Berlin railroad district headqufarterB was ordered to make avail-
able at oncea reserve of 530 boxcars and 1,,60? 'gondola cars in the
Berlin railroad district.
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