SOVIET MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS ON THE FRANKFURT/ODER/BREST LITOVSK LINE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004500430011-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The follow?jing, Qoviet military rail moverients were obser'--ed
on the Frankfurt/U"ter (0 53/V 63) -Lro st-Litovsk (8 53/=,i 87)
railroad line b :ttwen 25 Jecer fiber 1949 and 12 January 1950:
1. Leavinr? j'renkfurt/Oder on 3 January 1950 and arriving at
rest on 8 January 1950:
A train of about 50 cars, occupied by "oviot troops
wearing red-bordered black epaulets and off titers
wearing tank insignia was observed between ".Jarsaw
and Poznan (P 53/X 26) on 5 January 1950.*
iuo other military trains were observed by oource0
2 o Leaving Lrest on 8 January 1950 and returning to
Frankfurt/Oder on 13 January 1950:
Train carrying 30 -iT 25X1 A
guns with muzzle brake and an estimated caliber of
85 mm.** : scorting personnel said 'that the -'.ateriel
had come from .eoscowo In Frankfurt/Oiler, th1v train leas
dispatched toward Cottbus (14 52/Ai 57) during the nigh25X1A
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not see any other military trains. The
stocks of coal at all stations through
train passed.
3. Leaving, Frankfurt/Odor on 20 .Jece .fiber 1949:
Train of 12 coaches and 16.boxcars, bound for Lrest-
Litovsko The coaches were occupied by about 100 troop";,
including about 30 officdrs, and about 50 women without
children.***
a. Llaek epaulets, some with lightning-bundle insignia,
red-bordered black epaulets and black-bordered red
epaulets were observed. officers wore black-bordered
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silver epaulets. The women wore civilian clothes,
b. Two boxcars were loaded with boxes and furniture,
four boxcars were sealed and 10 boxcars were "-ipty but
equipped with wooden benches.
4. Leaving merest and arriving at vrnrlkfurt/Oder about
January 1950:
train of 6 coaches, 4 boxcarsyand 12 gondola cars,
headinC? toward ..rest, was seen near :'arsaw0 i aeh gondola
car carried a canvas-covered, long-barreled gun and a
caterpillar tractor, or truck or passenger car. Four
to six tractors, four to six trucks2and two passenger cars
were seen on the trains
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O orient :
Presumably a -hipnent of recruits arriving behin d
s':hedule or of specialists, -lost of the fall recruits
(inducted during the ,u-mier of 1949) reached units in
the ooviot t one of i err any up to late ~.c~e;fiber 1949 r
shipment of motor vehicles and guns enrouto from the
soviet Lnion to the : oviet Zone of (.er:?Zrany.
i'orsonnel t~ois4r; on furlough or to be discharged and
dependents bound for the soviet union,
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