SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700930003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION 6LCKE7
'OUNTRY East Germany
TOPIC Soviet Troop Trains
EVALUATION
a rE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PLACE OBTAINED
REPORT
DATE PREPARED 21 1twRambpr 11
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMMARKS
CB converted boxcar
B boxcar
with soldiers which were dispatched from Meissen
between 16 and 30 October 1954:
Date in
October
16
19
22
23
25
28
30
Ishangalovsk (?)
Kovel
Chernishovsk
Kovel
55 B it
55 B Chernishovsk
55 B Kovel
2. The following eastbound shuttle-trains with soldiers were dispatched via
Kuestrin-Kietz between 15 and 26 November:
Date in
November
15
54 B Jueterbog
16 54 B Meissen
54 B Fuerstenberg
i8 54 B Weimar
54 B Bernau
20 54 B Haldensleben
54 B Bernau
23 54 B Magdeburg
Number of Care Receiving Station
55 B
55 B
55 B
55 B
Number of Cars Dispatching Station
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25 54 B Meissen
26 54 B
Magdeburg
The following westbound shuttle-tr?tne with soldiers
Kuestrin-Kietz between 20 and 30 November:
Date in Number of 'Cafe Receiving Sta bfa
20
21
22
23
24
26
28
30
54 B Neustrelitz
54 B Weimar
54 B Greifswald
54 B Magdeburg
54 B
54 B Brandenburg
54 B Neustrelitz
54 B Weimar
were dispatched via
Since extensive traok constructs work was be4nn at the Kietz railroad
station on 1 ]ecember, it Is b$ved that thb personnel exchange movement 25X1
via Kietz term nated on 30t Novemmx.
4. On 4 December, shuttle-train
Brest Litovsk via Frankfurt/Oder.
of 50 CB went from Jueterbog to
Comment. Another reportoconfis d tlt?at the dastbeund troop .tz~I."iir~e -
in paragraph 2 were occupied by.dischargees. Except for shuttle-train
on 20 November 1954, all other westbo nd trains are believed to be e .
the personnel exchange movement in# both directions terminated in the first
days of December 1954. The present comic ation of eastbound troop trains
carrying dischargees indicates that the movement includes 74 shuttle-trains
which have been observed with their,numbers?and 76 additional shuttle-trains
or a total of 150 trains. Excluding 10 trains which probably were empty at
the beginning of the movement, a total of 140 eastbound shuttle-trains
with dischargees has been computed. Since it is believed that ]less diachargees
are being moved in a railroad car than replaoements, each train probably
carried 1,150 dischargees (46 oars with 25 men each), while those with
recruits may have carried 1,380 men (46 cars with 30 men each). This computation
indicates a total of about 160,000 dischargees. Since this figure exceeds
even the total of about 152,000 replacements of the 1931 and 1932 class
which was observed in 1951, it appears that these two classes have been
discharl.
The present computation"ofwestbound troop trains carrying replacements
indicates that the.movement includes 69 shatt trains which have been observed
with their shuttle''train and 66 additil al'shuttle-trains or"135 trains..
On the bads of the assumption that each shuttle-train carried 1,380 men, and
including a deduction of five percent since the last westbound trains were
probably not loaded to capacity, about 175,000 men arrived from the USSR.
The'difference of 15,000 men between the total number of dischargees and
replacgnents in 1954 is probably made up of reassignments and hospitalized
personnel.
The actual strength of the army units in the GDR was estiruated at 360,000 men
prior to the personnel exchange movement. Since December 1954,.about 50 percent
of these men are believed.to be rbepuits. We assumption is cQnfirmed by
numerous observations at the barr s installations. The persospl exchange
movement of the Twenty-Fourth Jfty which probably has an actual strength
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