SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800500007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSI F iCATION SECRET/CONTROL -
COUNTRY En.sst Germa~ar
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road district to Eggesin on 2 October. .
1. Troop trains identified on 1 and 2 October 1953
included: a train of 4 cars, 1, 0 tons, from Gruenau to Paseralk on 1 October;
and another train of 2 boxcars, and 37 flatcars, 1,000 tons, from the Berlin rail-
at er.in- uc , one troop train at pernick, and two troop trains at Bernau. 2
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on 5 October, five troop trains 50X1-HUM
with soldiers, 20 to 25 tanks each, and equipment were loaded at the Blanken-
burg railroad station. 3
Troop, trains from Jueterbog on 5 and 6 October 'n-50M-HUM
eluded: a train of 1 boxcar ant ..attars o enxgswusterhausen on 5 October;
and a train of 2 converted boxcars, 3 boxcars and 4 flatcars to Cottbus or,
8 October.
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5. Troop trains unloaded at the Frankfurt/Oder freight station on 8 and.9.October
included: a train of 1boxcar and 10 flatcars with.10 tanks
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of 1 boxcar and 11 flatcars with 11. tanks
and escort personnel ' on 9 October. The trains came from L,ieberose.
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6. On 5 October,, 2 converted boxcars and 6 boxcars, transitworthy, were to be made
available for urgent s at the Jueterbog-Altes Lager railroad station
at 8 a.m. on 6 October.eg 5-
transitworthy shuttle-trains were to be winterized. Each train was to consist of
46 converted boxcars, 5 boxcars with kitchens, 2 boxcars with military goods,
and 1 gondola car with briquettes for heating the converted boxcars, Each con-
verted boxcar and each kitchen car were to be supplied with 10 candles. The
-trains were to be . bs'se bled s the;Juet~rbog lies -Lager railroad station anc5OX1-H U M
included; Shuttle-train on 18 October; shuttle-train .Don 22 October:
and' shuttle-train on. October. From Jueterbog, the trains were to b50X1-HUM
assigned to the individual units. 6
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1 o Comment. The trains p ob biy were KIN trains.
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Cammen&. On 5 October 1953, large contingents of the 25th Tank Div left
the Berlin-Beach and Bernau railroad stations for their home stations after ter-
mination of field exercises in the area north of Berlin. In connection with this
movement, Zepernick is reported for the -first t'
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Com
ent. This troop. movement from 3lankenb rg, Harz Mitts, on 5 Octobei 1953
3. 1
is reported for the first time.
Comment. On 8 October 1953, the departure of the troop. trains
on 7 October 1953.
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1enn ' "- ' - y , were to be made available for the.
troop train - h: ch left.Jueterbog -for Brest Litovsk
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Comient. at,about
mid-October. 1953, the exchange .of personnel of =its of the Soviet army in East
Germany will be started.
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