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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200350002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEN !"RAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY' PEPOPT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
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1. The WALDE KOPHAHEL,. rentmed B_7a former German submarine tender, was
drydocked In the Naptunwerft (shipyard) in Rostock in October 1952. Nine
former L1 ,class eernan minesveeperso were in the shipyard for overhaul and
repair; three were already completed and made shakedown runs. Al! were still
Without armament. Mother former German T -cl&ss minesweeper, which had been
salvaged, was under general repair.l
2 ~ A newly built 38000.-ton type ship with the Soviet name E )LC f IA, was 80 percent
completed and was expected to be put into service in December 19524 She was a
freighter and was to be equipped with two heavy lift derricks each of 30 tons
capacity., A similar freighter was afloat and being outfitted, Two 3,,000-ton
freighters were on the slips and were 20 and 10 percent completed. Components
for another freighter in the shipbuilding shop were 20 percent completed.
3. Selvage Ship I mounted a 50-ton crane and was nearing completion, Salvage Ship 2
was afloat and 60 percent completed, Salvage Ship 3 was on the slips and 30
percent completed., Salvage Ship 4 was 10 percent completed. Numerous structural
parts for other salvage ships were in a building shop,2
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were being outfitied,.
The Soviet ship IR UT formerly the HARRLD SCHROEDER, was under repair in the
Neptun shipyard and was expected to be delivered in December 1952. There also
Jrere the L&TOIS,a former Latvian vessel, and the EDITH FAUIBAUM, a former German.
merchant ship which had floundered with a cargo of raw sugar off &*rn .ende In
1943 and was salvaged by the Russians after the ward The I,ATOIS and EDITH
FAI7IhAUN had not been given Russian names. The East German ship VORW'AERTS
was scheduled to be in eratln din on 20 November 1952, The
border-police vessels were also undergoing repair
in the shipyard.
Carurept,: Other Information indicated that the WALD104AR KOPIi.r ',L was
marked A 8 See . Four of the 12 boats seen in the Neptuu
shipyard in October, had pyard numbers D 8. D 9. fl _! 2 and D 13
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