MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300510003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION. SmR. Ei' COr TWL - U Se OFFICIALS 01W
CENTRAL INTELLIGE . NCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Fast Germany
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Railroad Information
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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THIS COCU V ENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTI NG TF. E NATION AL DEFEN SE
OF THR 'UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE NEANINS OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 753
AND 794, OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TAANSHISSIOH OR NEWEL.
ATlON OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECRIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IN PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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1. in mid-March, a VP transportation control headquarters was established
in two rooms of the Schwerin regional railroad headg3;ar"e-rs. Kaiaak (f nu
previously station master at Schwerin, was made chief of this headquarter,s,
while one Quitkat (fnu), previously departmental chief at the Guestrow
railroad subdistrict office, acts as his deputy. The timetables for the
SCC and VP troop trains are to be drawn up at the head uarters in the neap
future. I 4
2. On 20 March, the Cottbus regional railroad headquarters ordered that all
RRym flatcars be kept available for special missions. By 23 March, all
sidings usable for the parking of railroad cars had to be reported to
the regional railroad headquarters in Cottbus. 2
3. On 28 March, source learned that 200 flatcars of all types had been
assembled at Pillgram. On a9 March, another 100 SS and aR m flatcars
Were requested by the Frankfurt/Oder railroad station. 3
4. The count of freightecars made in East Germany on 15 March had the follow.-
ing result:
Park of operational railroad cars:
N
98,051 units
on-operational railroad care:
27,399
Of which damaged cars: 20,0700 units
Special purpose cars: 4,774 n
Reserve cars: 2,555 n
Total number of freighars available:
125,E+50 units. 4
Comment. Information on the establishment of VP transportation
control headquarters in all of the eight East German railroad districts
was transmitted previous1 uarters are officially designated
Reichsbahn-Gegenstellen. . It is possible that
these agencies will in the future also handle Soviet military shipments.
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25X1A 2. Go ment. This statement agrees with recent information furnished
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no recor? a and ept a the exclusive disposal. of the Soviets. See
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25X1 A 3. II Co. aen . The dispatch of heavy-duty flatcars and other flatcars
to Brest Litovsk via Frankfurt/Odor was also reported by other sources.
25X1 A . This operation indicates that tanks, guns a xl
motor ve_.ic es, probably for the Oolkspolizei, will soon be dispatched.
from the U.S.S.R. to East Germany. Piligram is 10 km east of Frankfurt/
Oder. It is believed that the flatcars observed there will be forwarded
to Brest Litovsk.
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oen According to counts made on 15 January and 4 Larch 1953,
122, 790 and 127, 157 freight; ?a_ respectively 'rere available in East
Gerr any.
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