RAIL SHIPMENTS OF SOVIET TROOPS AND MATERIAL ON THE BROST LITOVSK-FRANKFURT/ODER LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600520009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Rail Shipments of Soviet Troops and
Materiel on the Brost Litovs -Frankfurt/
Oder Line
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
CLASSIFICATION SEG 'T/COATROL - U.S. OFFICL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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DATE DISTR. 6 April 1950
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The following soviet rail movements were observed on the Brest
Litovsk (S 53/fai 67) - Frankfurt/Odor (0 53/V 63) line;
1. Train leaving Brest Litovsk on 21 January 1950: Train of 22 rail-
road cars occupied by 40 to 50 officers (a' lieutenant colonel 50X1-HUM
being the ranking officer) and 450 to 500 M-21 equipped with 12
new
now c? ree-- le
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rue! s ;an. T 2 heavy AT guns of 70 to 30 mm cal er y with
barres.s about !Four meters long with nuzzle braxo, ;~un. shield,_._split-
tra arr agerend wheels with single pneumatic tires.
aQ The ELI were 13 to 20 years of age. They were overheard to say
that their unit had come from the area of Kharkov and was going
-'Go Germany for the first time.
b. The train stopped about 30 km east of FranRfft tleft /Odor in 25
January 1950 until nightfailJAt about 10 p.m.
direction of Mecklenburg.
2,, Train observed in Neubantschen (0 534-1 53) on 28 January 1950:
Train carrying 50 to 60 new half-track prime .movers 50X1-HUM
and an escort party of soldiers twaearing red-bordered black epaulet.
with artillery insignia,
3.
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bound train occupied by Soviet o ren left
Fr and fort/Oder on 25 January 1950.
4=, A train occupied by Soviet recruits, coming froyn Brest Litovsk
reached Frana'cfurt/Order on 4 February 1950. The train was dispatched
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDE =,,L in ccordnnce with the
letter of Oc'ober 137?3 from the
Director e~r`.lul In:eii:gence to the
Archivist -:.e Uni"ed Stales.
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Si C T/CONTROL - U,S, OFFICIALS ONLY
CENTRAL 114TELLIGENCE AGrAIIG*,-.
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evacuation to the Soviet Union of Soviet dependent.sa
* Thel I statzc emt confirmed
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a nett Influx of recruits from the Soviet Union star e
late January and early February 1950, as observed in 1949,
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/04: CIA-RDP82-00457R004600520009-9