SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003300180006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troop Trains
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CB ~- Converted boxes
13 Boxcar
1. hutt'e_trains with military personnel. ala Kuestrlrr 25X1
between 3.4 November and I December 1953:
Date
Westbound.
Number of Gars
14F November 54 B
16 53 B
17 53 B
18 53 B
50 B
19 56 B
20 54 B
21 53 B
57 B
23 54 B
24 54 B
26 57 B
27 54 B
28 57 B
1 December 57 B
Eastbound.
It., November 54 B
15 56 B
16 54 B
17 53 B
18 53 B
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19 November
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21
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25
27
54 B
54 B
57 B
54 B
57 B
53 B
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Shuttle-trains with rii? it*y personnel
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between 24 November and 2 December included:
Sate Number of Er-om To
Cars
54 B Jueterbog Franikfurt/Cder
56 B Weimar Y-uestrtn
56 13 Kuestrin Weimar
54 B Frank--curt/Oder Dresden
55 B It Weimar
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25 54 B Guben Magdeburg
26 55 B it Weimar
54 B Jueterbog Frankfurt/Oder
54 B Kuestrin Jueterbog
54 B Magdeburg` Ko1
54 B Chemnitz Kuestrin
54 B Efurt Fra .kfurt/Oder
28 54 B Magdeburg Brest Litovsk
55 B Gubei Chemnitz
29 Brest Litovsk Altengrabow
54. B Guben Dresden
54 B Kuestrin If
.540 1 December 54 B Guben Jueterbog
2 54 B FranSfurt/Oder ChemnitZ
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Betweeix 14 and 16 and 22 and 24 Noveitiber, a 'train with MI 'G ary ersonran2
went ?'rnr [.u?hen to Jai od1n:a Between 14 and 16 Novorber
?ive 'westbound trains with 41iter per Bann i.
the Guben o J agod,in line.
f: On 22 November, a shipment of 20 flatca `s carrying two T-34 tanks and 18
tan. trucks escorted by F" r3 ish military personnel was observed at the
Xro-; aen wai.lroad station. A way-ball indicated that Guben was receiving
f tattio1.,
On 25 November troop train with Polish tank troops and
air force troops arriving at agodi.n.4 The train 25X1
arm from Silesia' xxrobably was redispatGhed toward
Kove !
6. By order of the Soviet, railroad transportation control headquarters,
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the following cars were to be dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder on 25 November
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.4 CD Wuensdorf
11. CB Rehap en-Klausdorf
4 CB t iildpark
2 CB Stendal
7. Eastbound shuttle-trains on 27 and 28 November in d shuttle-train
through Yuestrin on 27 November; and shuttle--train
through Frankfurt/Oder on 28 Cloven er.
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with tr i.l itaz.y personnel was dispatched from 'FuerstenberI to Sohwer1n-Goerris
on 25 and 27 November. 3
9., On 25 and 29 November, an empty train of 46 converted boxcars each went
from Schwerin to Vagdeburg.
10. On 23 November, a troop train of 10 converted boxcars and 4 flatcbts was
t_oaded with 350 to 400 officers and hl' wearing black-bordered blue epaulets,
and four half-track vehicles with searchlights at the Dallgow-Doeberitz
railroad. station. The train was dispatched toward Doeberits,
1.1 Com gent The shuttle-trains as follows:
the train went from
Luest rin to We_ . ar on 17 November 1953. As the train, however, left the zone
to the Past, on the sarr:e day, its return on 21 November 1953 is given credence,
on 21 November 1953,
uraF,rn returned empty to the zone via Kuestrin.
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A previous report indicated that, y nediatly after its
s ~s n va J.i Yal in the zone on 23 November, the train must have been dispatched from
Dresden to Guhon on 24, Novertb-or 1953.
As such emplo: ment appears irnproba.ble, it is assumed that ;he d to in paragraph
7 of the present report, are correct, and that the shuttle-train. attually left
the zone via Frankfurt/Odes, on 28 November 1953.
the train went from
i'agdeburg to Jagod.in during the n .g t of 21 November ,tad, according to
,:ara x~a,,h 2 of the present re ort, returned on 26 November 1053, it is not
believed that the train arrived via luestrin. E__ I
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that arrived in the zone a_ ter a period of five days, about 26 November
The empty train was dispatched from i2stermark to
Juefie r'oo ; on 13 November which indicates that the train left for the east
via Kuestrin on 15 November 1'153.
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Jueterbog to the east on 19 November.
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the train went from
According to a previous report, the train went
er on 20 November, and, according to
iron Chernnitz to Frankfurt/O.'
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paraph 2 of the present report, returned from the east to Neirrar
via Frankfurt/Oiler on 24 November 1953. Paragraphs 1 and 7 of the
present report indicate that the train again left the zone toward the
east on 27 ?Toveriber 1953.
On 19 November 1953, the tr in allegedly went
fror Chemnitz to GuLen. Thus, its return frog: the past to Dresden on
24 November 1953 appeal's possible. It is not clear, however, whether
the train cat* via Guben or Frankfurt/Odar.
The em to -etit of the train reported in paragraph
2 ~~ra s is confirmed by the
present report.
All other shuttle-trains reported are observed for the
first time in conjunction with the routes mentioned..
2 wvFFent. These trains with a snaU number of cars probably carried
replacern-enGwho were distributed to units at various posts..
I.F o_m_ent. As the interzonal shuttle train I Ipreviously
em d between Yagdeburg and posts of the Third Shock Arr,r only,
-its dispatching from Fuerstenberg Is doubted.
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