SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS BY RAIL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY.- ,REPORT NO. -M
Ynptr iaov Let Troop Iiovements by Rail
REMARKS
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1. Between about
every third night, a train with about 0 young Soviet
soldiers arrived at Frankfurt/Oder from Brest-Litovsk and
proceeded to Camp Nunen. 'W ' ahen the tr-.ins ' assed through
F.r.n;--fort/0der, all doors of the boxcars were closed, but
the troops looked out through the windows, Camp Iunen was
occupied to capacity. The last shipment of UI ti-.who arrived
there marched to Fran'furt/Oiler in groups of about 100 each
and were quartered in the barracks installation there. Some
tine later, they departed to Eber.sw:,aide and toward Cottbus
aboard regular passenger trains. .A total of about 2,000
Troops, who were 13 to 20 years old, departed during a five
day period. (1)
2. The following numbers of Soviet military personnel aboard
leave trains were listed in the records of the Frankfurt/Oder
rii.lroad station between 16 --Ind 13 October 1951.:
i~at:
0eto~i
To iirest?Li ov
Fj:om Argst
,itovsk
l6
2.40
and
230
290
and
270
17
220
and
200
240
and
260
r3
250
and
260
230
and
300
(2)
The record of the transit-shipment office in Fran':~furt/Oder
listed: shuttle-train i;o 101 of 6 boxcars with troops and 47'
emx~ty boxcars going to Brest-Litovsk on 20 October; shuttle-
tr-tin Ito 103 of 53 er pty boxcars going from the direction of
Berlin to Frankfurt/Ocier on ^2 uctobor; shuttle-train l.o 102
of 53 empty boxcars go:' ng from Fran!: part/0 er to Brest-Litovsk
on 22 October (3) ; a tri.iin of 44 boxcars with troops ^.nd 17
`1ntcars with trucks shipment record l'os 10697 and 10693,
g,o:_ng from the direc ,on of Cottbus to Brest-Litovsk on
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2(3 October; and a train of 36 boxcars
empty onflola cars, shipment-rocord Nc.-
the ?irection of Cottbus tova2rd Brest
_ 4. Trains observed passing through the
included: .a train of 2 boxcars an-,, 9 f:
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?and 19
from
`O October. (3)
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shipment-record To /5535 en route fro i: ;. E to Tingerhuette
on 14 October; and a train o: 10 boxcars flatenrs carrying
trucks and artillery pieces on route fs e- .ueberitz to '.uster-
mnrk (?) at 4 p.m. on 21 October. (4)
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25X1A (1) Si:iilar obse rvat~ons were previrusly made by
25X1A F'r1n1:,.furt/Odor and Kuestrin. Reports indi,:ate that, :a.iir' n the
period from 3 to 15 October 1;51, five trains with a total of
about 207 boxcars with troops arrived in the Soviet Lone of
Gert ~ariy. Three of them carne via kuestrin rind two came frog- the
direction of Cottbus and .,ere !znLo?aded in I,oscngarton nn--ar
Franx~furt/Oder. Brest-Litovsk has not previously been re...rted
as the dispatching station of these trains. The incoming
personnel vent to transient iuarters in Fr-.irxkfurt/Odor, pr. obabl.y
to Camp ~..unen and, the 1 ichhorn :aserile.
(2) The daily figures for Soviet leave traffic In both directions
si ightly increased over previous reports.
(3) Shuttle-train 1:'o 101 was last observed ?hen ,ol-ng from. the
dirt ction of Cottbus to floseng?ir'.en vi.a on
17, October 1_'3 1 consisting of 53 cars rith personnel, 25X1A
25X1A . Shut le-train No 102 was reroried y the
25X1A s .tie "0100 left the So viet ' one o Germany for Brest-
51, consistti.ng of 56 empty boxcars.
25X1A Shuttle:-train ~ r. 103 mentioned in the
he;uled away f i;hter units from Grossenha3n or from Alt Loenne1.vit2.
Ore fighter division headru.arters and two .finsecutive sh:i.pr:?Ient--record numbers from 1068 t; rou h i66
.
25X1A (1'44) Ac:cord:;.ng to t-he the train on 14. October
sEems to have carr? e s gnal. vex .tcles of the GOFG.
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