SOVEIT TROOP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800480009-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATIC
Soviet Troop Trains
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Up to 4 Octoter-1963v .on and after
1 October, about 30 tr'cans t-:.efe to be rade available every day in the Magdeburg
ra1road district for transpo-Jltion of Soviet troops.
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Date Ntrater of Trains .Station _ Recelyj..n.g_aation
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the fc;11Oving troop trains were lo,!ided between
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a on and after 1 October, about
25 troop trains from-Haldensleben were unloaded in the Deesau,.Rosslau
and--Zerbst area. On-1 October,. about 12troop trains with tank units from
Thuringia were unloaded at Halle; trucks observed
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4. On 3 Octobers the unloading of a
launchers at the Bernau railroad station, 7
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,an railroad cars. to be made available
between 4 and 10 October included:- 8 converted boxcars and ?109 flatcars
at Hernau; 6 converted boxcars and 16 flatcars at Buch; 3 converted boxcar's
and 17 flatcars at Wustermark; 4 converted boxcars and 17 flatcars at
.Zepernick; 9 converted boxcars. and 33 flatcars at Hennigsdorf; 6 converted
boxcars and 22 flatcars at Schoeneweide; and I converted, boxcar and 23
flatcare at Halle.
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6. on 41 5 and 6 October, 20 troop
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Bernau, Puch and Zeperniet. The trains left toward Templin,Prenzlau and
Zehdenick. 8
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7. On 5 October, a troop train of 10 express coaches and 6 bOxcars with about
150 air force officers and dependents was observed at the Stralsund railroad,
station. The train came from Damgarten and proceeded toward Frankfurt/Oder. 9
8, On 6'Octobel% an AT unit was unloaded at the Prenziau railroad station.
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9. On. October, the unloading of a unit with about 20 T-34 tanks and large
,billeting equipment was observed at the Frenzlau railroad station.
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10, Troop trains pasr?ing through the Nuellrose railroad station on 8 and 9
October included: a train of 1 boxcar and 10 flatcars with soldiers and
10 tanks; and another train of 1 boxcar and 9 flatcars with soldiers and 9
tanks on 8 October; and a train of 1 boxcar. and 10 flatcars with soldiers
and 10 tanks on ber. The trains came from Lieberose and went to
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Frankfurt/Oder. 11
IL, On 9 Octobers a troop train of 58 axles o including. 28 converted boxcars,
. was dispatched from Berlin-East to Rathenow. .
12, On 10 October, three troop trains went froaRathenow.to Goeschwitz.
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13, On 10 Octobers railroad cars to be rade available included:
57 converted boxcars at Jueterbog, and 10 converted boxcars at Pankow. 12
1, r-imment. Between 1 and 4 October 1953, units of the IX Ntz Rifle 50X1-HUM
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Corpe?the 10th Gds Tank Div wit )ntingents of the 71st Light Arty
Brig I JR and the 63rd AAA Div were dispatched from the Magdeburg 50X1-HUM
railroad district. The units had participated in the field exercises of the
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Third Shock Army. The 7th Gds Tank Div departed from Letzling Heath during
the same period.
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Comments The three troop trains carried eleMents of the 20th Gds
ecz fteut of the 8th Gd Mecz Div which moved toward Dresden.
Comment.s. Between 1 and 4 October 19533 engineer units left Dessau,
toward Thuringia on four trooptrains4 including elPments Of the 19th Gda
7 Engr Br of 1-1,,, Eighth Cd R A my Which went to Weimar on 1 October 1953.
:!ommentt The troop trains probably carried components of the 8th
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Conment.s. The troop trains dispatched from Angersdorf near Halle
probably carried components of the 21st Gds Kees. Div while the troop trains
from Altenburg were loaded with army artillery units of the Eighth Gds Army.
The troops were hauled to field exercises of the Eighth Gds/Army which
started in the 'rur Jena area on about 11 October 1953,
_Corilment? Components of the 7th Gds -.Tai Div from lisidensleben arrived
in the Dessau - RoSslau Zerbst area while the troop trains unloaded at
Halle carried components of the 21st Gds Mecz Div from Lossa.
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Comment.; The
rocket launchers possibly belonged to he 52nd Gds RL Bn of the 6th Gds
Vidcz Div.
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1953, a total of 1$ troop trains carried components of the 25th Tnnk Div
from Bornau and Buch back to their home stations.
On 6 October 1953 probably elements of the unidentified artilie
of the 25th Tank Div were unloaded at Prenzianc.
Comment
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GoMment,. This troop train-was loaded with tanks of the 25th Tank Div,
The :Grain probably was observed passing through Hammelspring toward TeMplin
at 2 p.m. on 8 October 1953,
OommenC. On 8 October l953
trains carrying tanks of the 84th.. v.lang tegu a
Div with the same disPatching and receiving stations0
two troop
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Comment.. The dispatching and. assembling of converted boxcars
'probably was connected with the expected repatriation of dischargees to
the USSR.
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,Comment
accoraing to observations
at Rathenovi, carried contingents of the 25qi RL Brig to field exercises of
the Eighth Ode Army in Thuringia.
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