SOVIET TROOP SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014500120002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PLACE
ACQUIRED
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
CD NO..
COUNTRY East- Germany
SUBJECT Soviet,Troop Shipments
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW, THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 18 October 1952
NO, OF PAGES .2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Each day from 6 to 13 October 1952 a.shuttle
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train occupied by .troops from he
Soviet Union `passed through K-Ustrin-Kietz en roue from Gerdauen to Frankfurt
aril der Oder. Empty, shuttle trains returned to Gerdauen as follows o one each
day 7 - 10 October from Frankfurt one on 10, October from Neustrelitz, one
on 1 ?'October' from Cottbus, one or more on 13 -October from Frankfurt.
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moved from Guben to .Frankfurt .on 11 October,
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on 12 October..
On- 3 October, 4 October, 6 October, and 7 e toter one troop train-passed through
Guben each day . bound from Yagodin to C-ottbus; on 8 October-one train from
Yagodin passed th bugh Guben-eru route- to Frankfurt. On each day from 4 to 8
October one empty eastbound train left C u'ben fbr Kovel.
On 11 October 150;n n. wearing red -bordered black epaulets detraiTted at
Leipzig_ ckmarsdorf station; with six 57-mm.. AT guns. sax 1120-mm. mortars, and
three. armored:scout:cars. About 35 trucks hauled billeting equipment-from the
st&tion, making several trips each. Motor vehicles
the First Guards-Mechanized Army were observed.
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5. Between 9 and 11 October 1952 tanks were unloaded at.Frankfurt/Oder; these
...included 20 JS tanks -and 2a T34 tanks On 12 October all the barracks installationE
at Frankfurt were occupied. by the troops :,previously kndwn to be stationed
there.
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