GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015000380004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Tr,DI.r uenwral mi,lita.'y Information
EVALUATIONJII
DA`L'E OF CONTEN1
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
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DATE PREPARED 29 October 1952
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.1,, Entrainment of troops from Carrtp Kindel observed at the -Nisenacb freight station
included:
2 October. A .U2-axle trpAm which e?
about. 00 soldiers
and boxcarloads of boxes and billeting equipment and departed it 8:15 pomb
Cctoborm i{ 60-axle train consisting of an undetermined number of flatcars
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mother train consisting of 10 boxcars with equipment and an urdetermined
number of flatcars carrying 12 T-34/85', tanks,, about 25 trucks including
At 9:30 send on 4 October, special vohicies for use in entraining tanks were
seen at the i'orst Li.nna railroad station.. ,"bout 35 to hO T..1h tanks I
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3,, At 10 a.m.. on h October, 1 armored scout car and 20 to 25 T-34 tanks were
entrained by about 200 soldiers at the Forst Zinna railroad stations 25X1
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x, On and after 9 Cctcber, the troops returned to their post in falle?
tanks, 3P guns, armored scout cars and soldiers with red-bordered b
epaulets, black bordered black epaulets and black bordered crimson epau?ets,, (3)
5Q, On 9 October, an AAA unit was entrained at the Qhrdruf railroad station 25X1
P x 76.2-mm All guns and about 25 trucks 25X1
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camp in Ohrdruf was occupied. The tent camp was removed. (1)
At h:45 on 9 October, a train carryin g 12 medium tanks,, several armored scout
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10October, the. camp on the road to Crawinkel, the tank parking lot; the
am.T.-aunition damp and the infirnery were vacant, P.esidoints stated that loading
operations were made during the period from 19 September to Lt October, The old
25X1 cars end several trucks
passed through :eimar,, proceeding in the direction of ..eissenfelso =bout 200
empty boxcars guarded by Soviet troops stood at the s~eimar frei ht otation on
9 October, (1)
Bm2 7, On and after 27 September, the ernann 3oeringf I.aserno in Dresden was occupied
to capacity and fully lighted at dusk,, Tr,cl:s and 25X1
25X1 jeep rere seen at the installation, ie man u__ i ng; of a l;apoia
was first Fully. lie,hted on 5 October, '.iar r officers were seen,; (4)
25X1 (0or:Lments.
25X1 (l.) These shipments are confirued by the -Erfurt, transport control
headquarters. It is believed that the train 25X1
25X1 I and went. to Leipzig Fueclaaarsdorf or, 2 October carried coraponon s o
e h fl Re,~ t (US) of the XXIX Gds Mtz ki `le corps; the train I 25X1
25X1 I and went to :taumburg on 3 October carried
elements of the 57th Gdo ''tz Rifle Liv; the en ineer train 25X1
25X1 and went to Piauraburg on 3 October carried elements of the
unidentified engineer battalion of the XXIX Gds ?Ttz lfle cores; and the MA
25X1 train and, on 9 October probably
returned to the post in Rudolstadt, carried elements of the 497th 1L?IA Regt
(US) of the XX VIII Olds ITtz 1(ifle corps from Ohrdruf, The evacuation of Camp
Crawinkel and the tent camp in Chrdruf as hell as the tank ship,aent through
.ieixlar on 9 October are confirmed by numerous additional shipnnents mentioned in
the records of the transportation control headquart=:ers? These shipments went to
ti he military posts anC the maneuver area of the 3CXVIII Cads Lltz Ri_f1