SOVIET RAILROAD SHIPMENTS THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004400170003-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY, Solicit Zama of Ga many
Soviet Ti ilroad ShitamentE thrau ,h Fh.', ?i.EURT/Qder
TOPIC
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EVALUATION.)
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
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REMARKS
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October to 13 11ecember 1949
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-ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE),
25X1 1. The folio 1rrg trains carrying Soviet troops and i:cateriel passed, throug$
FR?NK"URT/Oder (0 53/V 63) (frorrm 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
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1 October-194
1,.est~bound train of 40 railroad cars carrying troops, tanks and field
kitchens.
4 October 1949
".'es,.-bound hospital train of 12 railroad ears occupied b,r soldiers.
5 October 121+9
a. toast-bound train of 32 railroad cars carrying rotor vehicles and
troops with red epaulets.
b, ?'.est-bound train of 42 railroad cars carrying troops and T34 and
JS tanks.
11 October 19. 9
a. rest-bound train of 34 railroad cars, carrying troops, trucks and
passenger cars.
b. .;est-bpund train of 39 railroad cars carrying troops, trucks and
r"assenger cars.
1 , Uctober 19
'":est-bound train carrying troops, guns, trucks and passenger cars.
l October 1.949
":est-bound train of 34 railroad cr.rs carrying troops, tanks, trucks and
passenger cars.
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2. A train of four coaches occupied by officers and men of older classes,
two coaches occupied by women and children and seven boxcars loaded
with billeting; equipment left FRANKFURT/Oder for BR ST on 23 November
1949. The train had been assembled in FRANKFURT/Oder from shipments
b. ":est-bound train of 35 railroad cars carrying troops, passenger cars
and trucks.
2 October l94I
a. ..hest-bound hospital tr.-An of 13 railroad cars occupied by soldiers.
b. Vest-bound train of 37 railroad cars carrying air force troops
and trucks.
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21 October 194
a. ":est-bound train of 36 railroad cars. carrying troops, trucks and
passenger cars.
b. West-bound train of 39 railroad cars carrying troops, trucks and
passenger cars.
26 October 1,942
a. East-bound train of 32 railroad cars, carrying troops, trucks,
passenger cars and one field kitchen.
arriving from DESSAU (M 5,-/R 17) and FUERST ;N`':ALDE (N 53/V 33). -X*
a. A train carrying 26 guns of 122 mm caliber passed through FRANKFURT/
Oder on 26 November 1949 and proceeded east. *38,
b. Trains carrying twenty-two 37 --an AT guns, twenty-eight 76.2-mm
guns and twenty-eight 12-2 -mm guns passed through FRANKFURT/Oder on 28 Novem-
ber 1949 and proceeded east. **
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carrying 28 rocket launchers,
Oder marshaling yard on 3 December 1949.
to the passenger railroad station.
which had come from ZULrTLN==
was standing at the FRANKFURT/
The train was later shunted
1 Decem er 1949
4. A train of nine coaches occupied by 200 to 250 troops 25 to 35 years of
age, three boxcars loaded with baggage and boxes and two gondola cars,
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e t'KA URT/Oder for BREST on 13 December .
The troops were a ege; y replaced and on their way to the M0SC0"' area.***
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most of the trains presumably carried units which returned from
maneuver areas. No comparable information from FRANKFURT/Oder is
available for that eriod of time.
'' 'Troops with baggage and dependents who returned to the Soviet
Union for demobilization.
**', Outgoing shipments of weapons fro r, the Soviet Zone of Ger%aany to
the Soviet Union.
The train observed on 3 December 1549 was presumably also east-bound
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