SOVIET RAIL SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600290002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/01 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005600290002-1
UUINrILJt N I NHL
Soviet Zone of Genjjn
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
TOPIC..,...,? w.vt v a v v 44W4-L.16
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED 95_; .
REFERENCES
PAGES - ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE)
REMARKS
A train carrying 52 new trucks was an route from the U.S.S.R
to Chemnitz Hilbersdorf on 24 June 19SO,
4 The rail shipments observed on 5 July 1950 included the fo].v
lowin'r 4
52 crates containing aircraft parts, and two bc..vars oooud
pied by AF persornal was seen on 2?3 June 19500 The train
came from Falkenhasen and was bound for Brest Litovsk. (2)
O A 50-boxcar troop train carrying 1,500 soldiers wearing black-
bordered crimson epaulets was seen on the Ouben-Frankfurt /0dea
Berlin line on 3 July 1950? (3)
2. A train of an -undeter::tained number of freight oars carrying
Shim . t From-Too
10 RR care with
ammunition
6 RR cars with
ammunition
10 RR. cars. with
ammunition
5 RR care with
ammunition
7 RR cars with
ammunition
26 tank care con-
taining gasoline
U.S.S.R. to
Dannenwalde
to
Roederau
to Alton .
f;rabow
to snow
to Alten?
hame
to Velten
CONFIDENTIAL
50X1-HUM
IN ACCI 'IP?ATI0N SEC T-CONTROL/US OFFICIALS ONT,&'"`1 50X1-HUM
REPORT
Docu e
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/01 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005600290002-1
 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/01 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005600290002-1
CONFIDENTIAL
S ' AIT-CONTROL/U'S Cx VICIAAIA ONLY
2
Troops go1.ng on furlough in trains from Frankfurt/Odes to
Barest Litovsk were observed at a rate of 150 per day on and
after 24 June 1950. The number of troops increased to 500
per day from 2 to 5 July 1950, (4) Troops arriving in
Frankfurt/Oder from Brest Litovsk still averaged 1,000 per
day during that period m (5)
6, Two hundred soldiers arrived at the Techentin airfield aboard 50X1-HUM
a train from Frankfurt/Oder the night of 1 July 19500 They wore
red-bordered black epaulets, black-bordered black epaulets and
(1) u dip eiit .....,
(2) Possibly parts of wrecked aircraft The AF personnel presumably
went to the UoSAS,R for leave or demobilization,
(3) Presumably a train with recruits going to the Soviet Zone of
Germany, possibly via Forst.
(4) Possibly soldiers due for demobilization. It is hard to dis-
tinf?uish between personnel going on leave and personnel to be
d Is charged a
(5) Presumably the daily leave train :1u-42, going from Frankfurt to
Brest Litovsk, and 'Ru-p. l running in the other direction. The
train has a capacity of about 1,000 men. The soldiers were
either recruits or personnel returning from furlough. In the
latter case, the unusually large volwne of troops returning from
furlough may be ind- cative of a recall ahead of schedule. 50X1-HUM
CONFIDENTIAL
:3EC T-C01 THOL/U S OFFICIALS ONLY
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/01 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005600290002-1