MOVEMENTS IN MANEUVER AREAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800590007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INF R TI N REPORT CD NO.
R007800590007-2
Germany (Russian Zone)
Movements to Maneuver Area/Wi.T_DEETI,
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DATE DISTR. 26 ray 1951
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1. A railroad employee alleges that troops were loaded on trains in Schwerin
during the nights of 1 to 5 Ilay 1951. On 3 Hay a convoy made up of 80 trucks,
each carrying 20 soldiers, left the Adolf Hitler Kaserne in Schwerin and
headed toward Ludwigblust. On 10 May a column of eight, prime movers, each
towing a 76.2 mm. gun, and 12 trucks, each carrying 20 soldiers left the
Krueger Kaserne, Schwerin, and headed south. Only between 200 and 400 troops
were in each of the various casernes in that city on 12 May.
2. During the night of 9 May, three troop trains, including one carrying tank
troops, were unloaded at Dranse, near Wittstock.
3. Ten boxcars, carrying troops, 12 a tanks, and 10 trucks belonging to the
7th Guards Tank Divas ion were unloaded from a train in Neuha3.densleben on
13. May. The troops were then dispatched in the direction of Huetten.
4. On 18 Tr_ay, 142 T-34 tanks and 93_ JS tanks were observed north of V.roelaPis
at the Ohrdraf troop tr.,ining grounds. Three trains carrying tank troops
and one carryirr,-; troops equi ped with more than 100 motorcycles were seen
en route from Gotha to Ohrdruf on 19 ay. About 80 heavy gu.s and some 60
122 mu. guns were observed parked in the area north and west of Crawinkel
(on the sane date?).
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