SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800050008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SBCRET
COUNTRY
TOPIC
East Germany
Soviet Troop Trains
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EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
24 December 1954
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C'B - Converted Boxcar: B - Boxcar; F - Flatcar; G - Gondola Car
1. Troop trains
included a train of 55 CB
Chernyakhovsk on 25
which went from Bernburg to Wuensdorf on 8 December.
and 8 December
shuttle-train
which went from Magdeburg-Brueckfeld to
Novemberl, and a train of 10 C'B, 4 B, 16 F
2. troop trains
1 and B 'December:
Date in Composition of
December Troop Trains
From
22 C'B, 14 B, 9 F Wildpark
15 C'B, 5 B, 21 F, Wiederitzsch Wildpark
20 G
8 16 C'B, 4 B, 26 F Bernburg Wuensdorf
On 5 December, shuttle-train No 108 of 900 tons weight went from the
Cottbus railroad district to Brest Litovsk.2
3. At about 0700 on 11 December, a troop train of 21 B with billeting
equipment, and an undetermined number of F with 3 tank trucks, 1 truck
with hoisting gear and 1 roller were observed at the Satzkorn railroad
station. The train went from Elstal to Jueterbog'~
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