SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800040008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY._
CLASSIFICATIONS:a1RET/GON'IROL IL8 aTICIALS ONLY
East Germany -
SECITITY INFORMATION
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TOPIC Soviet Troop Trains
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DAT 20 October 1953
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On 1 October 1953, the Soviet transport officer at the Cottbus railroad
district headquarters requested from the railroad district headquarters
operational section schedules forfoui tiains_a day to be diapatehed_to
the Frankfurt/Oder and Guben border stations. The trains included a train
from Oroseenhain to Frankfurt/Oder; another train from Grossenhain to Guben;
a third train from Falkenberg to Frankfurt/Oder; and a fourth train from
Falkenberg to Gaon, and were to be operated via Cottbus according to a
fixed daily schedule. From Cottbus, the trains to Guben were to be directed
via Forst. On 2 October, the requested schedules were submitt,ed to the
Soviet transport officer for the Soviet transportation control headquarters(
the trains would soon be used for repatriation of 50X1 -HUM
aiscnarged soidiers. They had not been dispatched until 5 October. Although
schedules for the transportation of replacements from the USSR to Germany
have not yet been produced, such schedules will be 50X1 -HUM
requested soon.
jCorment0?The time of the intended movement and the regularity of
the schedule as well as the expected converse movement' rather safely
indicate that the train ? will be used as shuttle-trains for the exchange
of personnel with the Groseenhain and Falkenberg railroad stations
are' o function "-as transit stations from the Cottbus railroad
district to the Dresden railroad district.
CLASSinottim suaTT/coTrTkoL rLs.? OTTIOWS ONLY
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im Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/06: CIA-RDP80-008-10A002800040008-2