SOVIET RAIL SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004500030005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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from an easter-
ly direction. Its destination could not be ascerta aed.*
(NO. & TYPE)---
A freight train, carrying about sixty 76--en AT guns, pass
Cottbus (N 52/A 57) on 25 November 1949. The train cane
'rile following shipments were observed at the r'rankfurt/Od
er (O 53/V 63)
railroad station:
a. Train of 26 flatcars, en route from ,,be.-s tia1de to Fuerst,enwalde
(I\1 53/V 33)., :n 4 December 10/49. r'our of- the flatcars carried one T34
tank each :grid one flatcar truck ;taailroadmen said that the
remaining 21 flatcars would be loaded with tanks in Fuerstenwalde.
The destination of the trains could not be ascertained,
b. Train carrying',, about 35 r'Stalinorgoln'i (rail-type rocket launchers)
on route from rFuerstenwalde to Brest on 5 December 1949.
c. Seventeen railroad cars 'with rir,munition, en route from Brest to
Aue (N 51/K 53 on 6 December 19494' .
do Train of 25 flatcars an 6 December 1949. un
walde. One flatcar vvis loaded with a T34 tank;
the other 24 flatcars were to be loaded with Lanks in ri'uerstenwalde.
The destination of the trains could not be ascertained.
e. Twenty-five railroad cars witri explosives, en route r.`rorn Brest to
Aue on 13 December 194 9..
f, Train carrying about 55 trucks, en route from to rrankfurt/
Oder on 16 December 1949.*
3.
Thirteen railroad cars loaded with rail-type rocket launchers from
TULPCF1Il (N 53/Z 91) were dispatched from the RU.....::JSBUkG (:'+ 53/ 94)
t.Yre rai? rrr,~}dacscti r~qPinnf `'i~L8 T~ ~I.ZiL r' CI ~ 1 549,
marshaling yard to the Last on 5 December 19410 *
The follo,;dng rail shi;nents were observed on the dates. Listed:
a. Train of 15 coaches and 30 boxcars, occupied by Soviet families
from "cathanow U: 53/Z 15) and Jueterbog Q-4 ?316 69), passinj,. through
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Next Review Date: 2008 -"-" 0 v.
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DATE PREPARED 20 February 1950
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earorto to Listerbur.***
b. Three boxcars loaded ::ith trunks, accor(drtt... certi.tichte
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