SOVIET RAIL AND ROAD MOVEMENTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100480001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Coviet :.one of vor~ ~~ v
oovi't Rail and Zo,,.d '-:
DATE OF CONTEg .^:u-lust to 11 '5aoternber 1950
DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED
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1, Twenty 120-z mortars and 22 trucks Vera loaded at the Dailgow
railroad station on 15 Augiu: t 1950, Trucks
left toward rustorrvark, An officer who arrived in passengor car
5X1 uparvised the loading of five :iP guns at the station on
22 August 1950, The train left toward '.',usternark, (1)
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Two hours lator the convoy was loaded on a train in tho Potsdam
froi;;ht yard, (2)
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4, Official railroad records for 23 to 27 whist 1950 listed the
following trains carrying troops and materiel:
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordanco with the
letter of 16 Octobor 1978 from tho
Director of Central Intelligonco to the
Archivist of the United Statoe.
Next Review Date: 2008
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six T-34 tanks;
Shipment-record 1I0 754
?even boxcars
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Seven boxcars,, 38 flatcars with
5 or 6 rocket launchers;
Shipment-record No 75920
Six boxcars, 9 flatcars;
Train No 277
Ten boxcars, 29 flatcars;
Shipment-record No 75943
Eleven boxcars, 28 flatcars
Shipment record No 75942
One boxcar, 6flatcars;
Shipment-record No 75962
Twelve boxcars, 35 flatcars;
Shipment-record :dos 75881 and
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.all S)W to
Luckenwalde
23 August (.)
Jueterbog to
Neuruppin
21 August (5)
Satzkorn to
Jolmirstedt
2l August (6)
Luckern,ralde to
Neustrelitz
25 August (7)
Luckenwalde to
Neustrolitz
26 August (7)
Luckenwwalde to
Dall ;ow
28 august (8)
Altengrabow to
Neuruppin and
Daigow
27 August (9)
5. A train carrying an undetermined number of soldiers in six boxcars,
10 rocket launchers, 15 76,2-rim guns and 20 trucks was observed on
26 August 19503 The train came from the direction of Rosslau and
headed toward Dessau. (10)
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9. A shipment of 45 trucks without wheels, coming from Brest Litovsk,
passed through Frankfurt/Oder on 4 September 1950 bound for Turzen.
10. A shipment of 16 trucks, conning from ?rest Litovsk, headed toward
Cottbus on 8 September 1950,
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Official railroad records of 27 August 1950 listed the following trains:
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N ine flatcars, two boxcars,,
three coaches;
shipment-record No 75895
Seven flatcars, one boxcar,
five coaches;
Shipment--record No 75898
Eight f1atears, one boxcar,
three coaches;
Shipment-record No 75904
12, On 28 August 1950 a convoy of 16 trucks, each towing
7FX1A about 120 mm caliber and carrying about 15 soldiers,
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a gun of
was observed
e }merlin-Magdebur;
15. Four field kitchens, hauled i by truck /-7-41-70, vre loaded at
the 2berswalde railroad stati It on 31 August 1950, (18)
16. Ri of -6 boxcars occupied by .soldiers wearing rod -bor._?ered black
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iostock to Rosslau
27 A.) ust
Rostock to Neuruppin
27 AuCust
Rostock to Potsdam
27 August
17, On 11 September 1950 a.train of 8 boxcars occupied by soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets, ; n
runs each, and two flatcars ca.rr An"
headed toward Berlin,
ee or guns were 70 or 80wrm AA guns, five of about 20 run
caliber, (20)
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Div were loaded, probably for short field exercises in other training
areas, possibly Altengrabow. Such movements of conponents of this
division have been observed since early June 19500 Sevoral shipments
of tank units, presumably of the 1st L ecz Div, were seen by the same
source leaving Dallgow toward . usterznark between 7 and 10 'luf. ust 19500
C'ee
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train was presumably that with which left 25X1 A
b'otsdam for Neubukow on 22 August 19NO
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