SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS FROM EAST GERMANY TO POLAND

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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6 July 1953
1. On 28, 29, 30 June eac h one train composed of boxcars and flatcars was
dispatched to the USSR from Altes Lager in Jueterbog.
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Soviet Troop Movements from Past Germany
to Poland
vacated on .1 July.
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Schoenefeld Airfield was
beginning
on 28 June units stationed at Werneuchen Airfield were transferred.
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Two trains carrying covered loads which
tained aircraft were dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder to Brest-Litovsk.
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the
Werneuchen railroad s.ation was barred to all civilian goods traffic
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L.6 military trains would have to be dispatched for the
Soviets by 6 July.
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riots instigated by the
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underground movement occi;rredin Poland. The Vistula Bridge at
Thorn allegedly was blasted.
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beginning on 21 June Soviet
military trains continuously moved to Poland from East Germany. Soviet
units stationed in Poland allegedly were unable to quell the riots.
cated by 30 June. Units stationed there allegedly were to be trans-
ferred to Poland. AA guns stationed at the airfield allegedly were
also loaded for Poland on 28 June.
Soviet units were shipped
away from the Berlin area to quell riots in Poland. Martial law allegedly
was proclaimed at Breslau.
On 2 July the railroad bridge across the Oder River in Frankfurt/Oder
was guarded by Soviet sentries. Soviet troops with trucks were daily
loaded on to barges and shipped toward Kuestrin. Comment-
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division headquarters and two bomber regiments were stationed at Werneuchen.
bomber units of the 24th Air Army
on 21 June. About 12 trains could transport the ground units stationed
at Werneuchen. IL-28 planes would probably transfer by air rather than
rail. Should riots actually have occurred in Poland, the employment
of troop i.mits stationed in East Germany is more probable than the
employment of troops from the USSR, especially as the Soviet command
will probably try to avoid bringing still non-indoctrinated troop units
from the interior of Russia into contact with a rioting satellite popu-
lation
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