SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011700270006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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;aEDUTtITY I:3F I-Li`fIOIJ
COUNTRY_---'
TOPIC-. `~~ Soviet Troop Trairts
EVALUATION-
DATE OF CONTE!k
DATE OBTAINED.
50X1 -HUM
military shipments
Shipments
9 ?:arch 2 flatcars with
1 boxcar with
escorting air force
personnel wcarin,
blue branch-of-service
insignia
12 1;0rch 5 boxcars and lrest Litovsk
13 flatcars with
jet-propelled
aircraft
13 March 1 boxcar with
escorting personnel
and 2 flatcars with
2 tanks mounting
80-rixi guns, with
6 large track-
sup.porting rol? ers,,
1 drive wheel and
1 idler wheel
1 boxcar and
h flatcars with
4:. tanks of the sa_:e
type as mentioned
above
Brest Litovsk
between 9 and 13 i.arch
Klausa,
Soviet Ari:Tj
Glauchau,
iJolira
near .dcir it
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SECRET/CCNTI OVIUS OF 'IC
1 boxcar and Brest Litovsk
2 flatcars with
2 tanks of the sarr
type as mentioned
above
Halle,
(3)
2.
T
he following
numbers of Soviet r:~.ilitary per
sonn
el were obserred aboard
l
eave trains i
n Frankfurt/Oiler between 9 and
111
I.;arch:
D
ate
To Lest Litovsk
Fro
m Brest Litovsk
9 Larch
210 and 220
200 and 180
10 lbrch
190 and 200
190 and 200
11 ,.larch
203 and 210
190 and 210
3Y,
T
roop trains l
oaded at the .Oran onburg railr
oad
station with units from 50X1 -HUM
the SS Kaserne, Oranienburg, on 29 February included: a train of 4 boxcars
with soldiers and 22 flatcars with an un:cnown number of :1T -u..is of about
45-nn
p 13 trucks and 1 ambulance at 3:15 p.m.; a train of about 10 boxcars
with soldiers and an unknown number of flatcars with 15 x 76,2-mm field
guns, 1 rocket launcher, 15 mortars, 3 radio trucks and about 3.) trucks,
0 p.m.; and a train 50X1-HUM
carrying about 40 truck________________________ s with soldiers$ including
some with artillery insign iaa at p.m, e three troop trains left
toward Loewenborg? (4)
Troop trains coming, from the direction of Loewenberg and pas&; ing t1wough
the Oranienburg railroad station on 9 March includeth a train of 8 boxcars
with soldiers and 16 flatcars with 6 x 85-sm AA guns and 10 t -ucks,
proceeding toward Kremman at 10:50 a,.mo; and a train of 7 boxcars with
soldiers and an unknown number of flatcars carrying about 1G0 trucks,
Corirnts.
(1)fine" f Rion -apparently is a normal supply shipment to an air force unit at
Altenburg airfield from V -a resin air force depot at -~trausber-,
(2)Including the shipment r:ienti.onod in paragraph 1, a tote. of 78 crate;: 50X1-HUM
containing jet--propelled aircraft has been ship_)ed to Koothon since 19
January 3.952, Thy included 50 crates addresved to an unidentified air force
unit,, probably a ground attack unit to be cqui.?ped with jet--propel?ed
aircraft of M:iiG15 type? . On 1 ,:.arch 1952, 15 crates
were delivered to an unidentified now fighter regiment. It is believed that
the shipment on 12 :.:arch 1952 mentioned in paragra_h 1 of the present re-ort
Was also consignod to the new fighter regriment Which appears t.3 have boe50X1-HUM
As the troops came from the Ss Kasorre, the second and third troop train 50X1-HUM
-mentioned in paragraph 4 fairly definitely carried and the
carried co onents of the 25th Tank Div
(5 e troop train observed at 12:50 p,m, carried a headquarters si al unit of
the Second Gds 'Lecz Army from Fuerstenber r.qichF
went to Dessau,
,c ,T/COU 0L/ o 7xc rALS )NLY
2 sedans, 6 radio trucks and 2 jeeps 50X1-HUM
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