MILITARY INFORMATION FROM HALLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011500040001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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lthe Halle (III 52/D 92) freight yard.,, the following rail
movements e weep and 12 Larch 1952
It 7:20 amri4 A troop train which came from ;;agxioburg Puccau and proceeded to
13 long barreled guns, 4 howitzers of a caliber between 75" and 100 field
kitchens,, repair-shop trucks and other trucks,
8 Larch? .A troop train of 10 boxcars and flatcars carrying soldiers and vehicles
ri M -i--r=emu d from a northerly direction at 3 xeAm and left toward Erfurt a t 6 p0 t
(1) Another troop train was unloaded at 8 -I'm, The train consisted of 12 boxcars
with about ,30:) troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets, and 38 flatcars carrying
The unit left toward the barracks installation in ":aer it ,~ 25X1
9 ,:arch4
=d a n, Four tank cars with gasoline from ?.: uenchenbcrncdorf
in TietTebenm (3)
10 "::arch,
At a,r:i, it troop
a trucks and
Rossleberx'. The train consisted of 45 to 5,0 boxcars and ~.:latcars and ca ried troops
and vehicles, including 9 radio trucks 2 field kitchens. tr.xc.:s loaded with
si al e ui rant and 1 sedan, 25X1
noon? shipment o xcars and 7 flatcar.; carr-ying soldiers, 1 field
ki Chen and 9 trucks, which use coupled to the regular freight train from y'aigde-
burg--Buckau to I?ossleben (1)
vehic es,P including 4 ambulances, L. repair-shop truc">cs 2 tank trucks, 2 busses and
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train cam from a northerly direction and proceeded toward I;rfurte (1)
At 11:20 am. A 112a-axle train, 1,055 tons, of 10 boxcars and 39 flatcars loaded
wiM aiout; 3 T trucks, 2 field kitchens, several repair-shop trucks, 4 sedans,
arms and equipment? The train eamo from the direction of I;.agdeburg and proceeded
toward -rfurt. (1)
and flatcars carryinc
ITha train ca mfrom the direction of :
a~,deburg and proceeded toward
Ilrfurty (1)
At 10 a 0m. A troop train of 6 boxcars with soldiers and 19 flatcars carrying,
CL.ASSI FICATION
train of 49 boxcars
1. sedan,
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soldiers, 4 busses,
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t. about , a 0m A troop train of 10 boxcar: with soldier: ;, 2 boxcars with
tac it] Y7,Ir3y .t c an to-amown nunbor of flatcar, with 1,3 T-34 arael JS tanks and
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kltstadt to Halle, consigned t.o the crl o ~ iesi:i 71e=lot on Saar-.
bur#;erstras so o ( )
2, Tree additional troop trains vrhich could not be identified passed through
ht of 9 "arch, They came from the direction
the Hello Frei ht yard dt&Ang the nig
of I.adobuc? and went toward t,,rfurto (1)
1=`r e 30 to 1i3 heavy-duty flatcax s for. tank Were marshaled
at the Halle railroad, station prior to 12 Larch, (6)
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Comments
(i).~ x c~: ne trroo? trains I included: the train at 7x20 amo on
~scancaxs
train, r,itich. is 'aolieved to have co, from Ohrdruf., carried a component of the
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21st Gals Iiecz Div from the Flak Kaserne in :ocrrali_tzo At least four trains :Frith
9 Larch 19 )2 carryWr, a headquarters signal unit of the Third Shock Arra;r; the
train at 7 a.m, on 10 I:terch 1952, which as loaded, with vehicles o. the 6th
.ads Tank Div and the 14th Gds Mecz D:iv-, and the train at 10 a.m, on 10 .,march
1952 carrying; a headquartors unit of the Third Gds Uiccz Arr. ,, Joi of these
troop ;rains are believed to have also been observed trhilo 25X1
oas"in.., through Koethen and on the Ilallo-P,ttterfeid-Leipzig railroad line,
The trains bound for iioss leben carried, units which
probably mere 'eo participate in the com nand-post exercise beginning in the
3tauxa 7jrrcPad Bihra-~1 ossa area on. 3 "arch .1952 o Thero.: is no definite indication
whether the troop trains procoed inrg toward r,rftu t belonged to the sai:a r vomont,,
but this is believed oos6ible as these trains apparently carried. no heavy
had tx,,on dispatched from Halle to Ohr?draf between 16
F cbrtary and ;arch 1952- 25X1
(3 the Hq 21st C,ds Mecz Div in Halle until 9 ,aarch 19520
`hr:
an unidentified guards heavy tank SP regiment
20th cis 1ecz iv from Jena, which ifs believed to have cone from Lotzling Heath.
T'he unit probably returned to Jena from '.'aolmir; tedt where it moved on 1 :.'arch: 1..9 ^o
le at th CAs An.rr co mm orcial off ice
Tank shut ' e-train stationed in Halle, 25X1
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