RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600480007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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T INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO,
COUNTRY East Ge=any
iUU,JECT Rail Freight, Tra.flc - through Frai kfurt/Oder
LILACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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ST1Of OF ITS COWTKWT$ TO OR RICEIPT, BY AN 99AUTORIZED PERSON
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THIS~IS ONEVALtJATED_ INFQRP4iTION
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In A to i 1953 A a total of 1,872 cars loaded with iron ore from the USSR
were handled at the Frankfurt/Over border station. A total of 1,535 of
these carloads were consigned to Zilteridorf)-
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2. the following uranium ore
ohipments passed through Frankfurt/Oderen route to Brest Litovsk from
22. through 30 April:
Date in Number of
April Cara _..~..~ p.
22 45
2:3 45
29 45
42
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boxcars and 20 flatcars with 93 axles and a weight of 1,541 tons,
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passed through the Frankfur /Oderborder station on 26 April;, 4
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On 29 April and 1 May, 20 empty, six-axle heavy-duty flatcars each
.e.?sea tnrougn the :'ran=:furt/O^er border station en route to Brest
Litovsk 3
all SSy-type flatcars in the Berlin regional railroad
district wrere o be dispatched to Frankfurt/Oder. 3
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Cc ent.. ' ost of the shipments were reported previously 25X1
covering rail freight traffic through Frankf art/Oder ., Zilten or
).s the receiving station of the Foundry Combine East near Fuerstenberg%Octer,.
Co ueent. The continued dispatch of empty heavy-duty flatcars
to the USSR indicates further shipments of tanks and aircraft to East
Germany.. The ^y type flatcar has a load capacity of 50 tons, On 11
Ma-r ch 1953, 298 cars of this type were available to East German'y'
25X1 4, or ent This ship-- ent was also observed by another in
Frankfart/Oder? It consisted of-tanks which had probably undergone
generap repair in the ttSt and were returned to the large tank repair
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