SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS TOWARD THE KINDEL TROOP TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800860011-7
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. A train carrying 37 trucks, 5 51.1-85 or 51.1-100
SP Guns, and 10 amphibious cars passed through Eichrodt railroad
station at 7:45 a.m. on 22 April 1951, proceeding toward Eisenach.
2. A train of 20 boxcars occupied by troops, whose branch of service
could not be determined and 5 flatcars loaded with 5 5U-85 or 51.1-100
SP guns was in the Seebergen railroad station at 3:30 a.m. on 22 April,
with its engine facing in the direction of Eisenach.
3. A troop train with 35 trucks and other materiel stood at reudietendorf
railroad station at 3:50 a.n. on 22 April, with its engine headed toward
Eisenach.
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4. Sixty 3U-85 or 5U-100 SP guns were being unloaded at the Eisenach rail-
road station at 3:30 p.m. on 23 April, and 20 more SP guns of the same
type were lined up on the road leading toward Kindel.
each SP gun had two circular openings, apparently for
machine guns, and direct-vision slots on the right and left side of the
forward wall of the turret.
Fixed 75-mm ammunition was unloaded from the train outside the Eisenach
railroad sLation, on the road leading to Kindel. The ammunition pile5ox1 -HUM
were guarded by soldiers with black-bordered red epaulets. An undeter-
umber of trucks
and six artillery pieces,
near ammunition piles. *
apparently 45-mm AT
guns,
were parked
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rom ,a is, Gotha, and from the direction of Erfurt arrived at the
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tank component of the 57th Gds Itz Rifle Div. Since vehicles of this
division also picked up ammunitien at the Eisenach railroad station, it
is fairly definitely believed that the division will again hold its 1951
summcr training at the Kindel Troop Training Grounds, as it has done in
previous years.
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