SOVIET MILITARY RAIL AND HIGHWAY MOVEMENTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500220011-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Ger an (Soviet Zone)
TOPIC Soviet j li.t - Ftiaa l and I
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10 Military shipments observed in Frankfurt/Odor betteen 9 and 25 October 1950
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Two 56-boxcar trains with soldiers
with shaved heads
Two 58 to 60-boxcar trains
with recruits
One 54 -car train with .flM guns
and signal vehicles
Two 60bmxcar trains
with recruits
Two trains of 52 and 56 cars
with artillery and trucks
One 54-boxcar train with
young "'VD soldiers
One train with AA guns and trucks
CLASSIFICATION
Direction of Eber avalde
toward Cottbus
9 October
(1)
Direction of Cottbus;
unloaded in Frankfurt/
Oder. 9 October (2)
Direction of Ebera valde
toward Cottbus
10 October
(1)
Direction of Cottbus;
unloaded in irankfurt/
Oder a 10 October (2)
Direction of J"bersi a]d a
toward Cottbus
11 October (1)
Direction of Cottbus;
unloaded in Frankfurt/
Oder. 11 October (2)
Direction of Ebnra1de
tope*ard Cottbus
12 October (1)
Direction of Cottbus;
unloaded in Franlf urt/
Oder o 12 October (2)
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Two trains ndtta 26 and 28 rocket launchers -Brest-Litovsk to
undeterr.ined destination
12 October (3)
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Unloaded on ,1t,e open line
between F rankf ur 1./O der and Kuestrin
16 October (1)
One 56-boxce?er train wit + soldiers
Two trains of 56 and 58 boxcars with
recruits
One train with recruits
Two 60 boxcar trains vri.th recruits
Ode train with tanks and artillery
Eigbt boxcars with errruni.tion
Unloaded on tho open line betwo-on
'~ rankfurt/Oder and .uostrmn
16 October (.)
Direction of Cottbus toward Berlin
18 October (1)
Direction of Zber?avaalde
toward Cottbus
19 October (1)
Unloaded on the open line between
Frank urt/Oder and Kuestrin
19 October (1)
Direction of } oerswaide toward
Cottbus
20 October (1)
Unloaded in Frankfurt/Odder
24 October (2)
crest-Litovsk to ?uorstenwalde
25 October (3)
P. On 16 October 1950 forty tanks, coming .From the direction of Libberose, vmre
unloaded at the Frankfurt/Oder railroad station. (2)
3. On 17 October 1950, at 7 a am0 and at 6 p o-r_., an undetermined number o:.' tanks
were unloaded in Franltc urt/Odor end drove to the :Ziethen Easorne and the Horn
Kass rne. (2)
5. On 21 October 1950 i train of 12 boxcar-;, each occupied by 25 to 30 soldiers,
and flatcars carr7ing 16 camva.9-covorod tanks, coming from the direction of
Berlin, pas:_ed through Angormuende and )roceeded toward k,asewwalk. (5)
On 22 October 1950 a train of 9 boxcars with soldiers, and flatcars carrying 12
trucks, three radio trucks and seventeen T-34 tanks passed throu+:h ,4gerr uende
toward Fasewallka (5)
7. On 23 October 1950 a train of 13 boxcars zv th troops, and flatcars carrying; three
truck i and 14 canvas-covered tanks, com--Lni,;" from t e direction of ~,ber's ;a1do,
4hrou;`h 1,nger?:'luendo and rroceoded toward I a:evalk., (5)
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8. On 23 October 1950 a train of ten boxc?ars with soldiers, and flatcars carry-
inC 28 trucks and three AT guns of abot-.t 75 mm caliber, coming from the direction
of Eberavialde, passed through .Angermuer,de and prodeeded toward Fasewalk, (5)
9.
10. On 25 October 1950 fifty-eight boxcars were disinfected in Angormuende and
assembled into a troop train Mich loft for Vogelsang, carrying an escort
party of 20 soldiers,
13, On 26 October 1950 twelve T-3I: tanks .:^e unloaded at the Schwerin freight yard
and drove to the ".oltke Kasprno, t;:ailroac men said that the shipment had cone
from the direction of Ludtiwigslustn
1i., On 30 October 1950 a convoy of about 20 trucks, including fifteen trucks loaded
with one 1207--n mortar each, was observed entering he barracks instal anon in
1,10i r,cAr%Yq' 'PhA rnrr-trnar h r1 rmmn f'rnrm +i r S rear~+. i nn nf' T1o~ r xea
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17. On 10 October 1950 a 40-boxcar train ii h soldiers was soon heading toward
.~l ihnsdorf-w uencheberg. (10)
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196 On 12 October 1957: at 1:30 p.m., a train carrying 28 rocket launchers on
u.rrnu'lberod trucks was seen at the x`'ran'kfurt/Oder railroad station, standing on
the track used. by trains from }3rest Litovsk. Pnother train carrying 25 to 30
rocket launchers on unnumbered trucks arrived at i.:= I,5 7 9r.: from the direction
of rol t-Utovsk. ( )
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