SOVIET MILITARY RAIL SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008400570006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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'lilI-Itary shipments
eluded:
17 boxcars with soldiers
27 boxcars with soldiers
Shuttle-train
Troop train of 6 bc;,ars with
soldiers, C boxcars with am un;Lion
and fuel, and 17 flatcars
with 1 x 76 m 2 nri AA ,;uns, and 11
trucks,
From-To and Date
Meissen to
Jueterbog
30 ?`ay
??aCdebur3 to
Jueterboe
3 June
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Jueterbog
7 June (1)
Chennitz,
Artillerie-Kaserne on
Leninstrasse, to
Kroepelin
21 June
Troop train of 511 cars with
soldiers, 6 artillery pieces
Stendal to
Chennitzo
Artillery Kaserne on
Len instrasse;
night of 19 Jane (2)
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Soviet troop trains en route from Brest Litovsk to the Soviet
Zone of Germany have been driven via Wollstein and Guben since
20 June. Polish train pilots allegedly confirmed that such
trains were side-tracked at small railroad stations in daytime
and crossed the border only at night. (3)
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ary trains crosse e* border at v n between . and 30 June and
mostly proceeded toward F?tlkepnber .
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14 Troop trains identified from the records of the nth Subdistrict Office
The trains which came from the border passed through the Cottbus
railroad station principal.] ' at night and were heavily guarded dux
their stops at the station. '(4)
also with stoves and bunks, apparently forthe train-escorting party.
the boxcars were equipped with benches and four cars Of MA, `b1V97'U7
were said to have been shuttle-trains of 53 to 55 boxcars I.Sost of
Also the other trains observed
of the Berlin railroad district between 5 and $ July included2
Shipment From-To and Date
Troop train of 29 boxcars and Wildpark to
10 flatcars with sold Bernburg
5 July (5)
Troop train of 14 boxcars and Potsdam to
2 flatcars with Kroepelin
5 July (6)
Troop train of 11 boxcars and Potsdam to
26 flatcars with soldier
7 Kroepelin
5 July
5 July
15 flatcars with soldiers; Neustrelitz
Troop train of 7 boxcars and Luckenwalde to
Troop train of 13 boxcars and Wtldpark to
26 flatcars? with soldiers- Bernburg
8 July
Troop train of 9 boxcars and Luckenwalde to
23 flatcars with soldiers- Tyeustrelitz
5 July (7)
Troop train of 21 boxcars and tiYildpark to
26 flatcars with soldiers Bernburg
7 July (5)
Troop train of 36 boxcars and Potsdam to
6 flatcars with soldiers, Bernburg
$ Juiy (5)
Troop train of 38 boxcars and
flatcars with sz id1ers
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',duensdorf to
Muster mark
8 July
(6)
(5)
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The train of 7 July and the trains
?5/276 of 8 July also carried engineer equipment, bedsteads, chairs
and other kind furniture were hauled to the railroad station 50X1HUM
on trucks (5) -
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5. Daily Soviet leave traffic through Frankfurt/Oder averaged 420 soldiers
going to vest Litovsk and 400 soldiers coming from Brest Litovsk duriu
the period from 6 to 9 July. 50X1-HUM
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