OBSERVATIONS MADE ALONG THE/ FRANKFURT/ODER-BREST RAILROAD LINE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Mission-3' Carried out:
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NQ OF ENCLS
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Time of ?3ission Bound for Number Load Carried
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TO to 12 June
14 " 20 June
of Axles
or Cars
2-9 may to 3 June Brost Litovsk 116 empty
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Brest Litovsk 3113 machine parts
'rankfurt Oder )10 sin
Brest Litovsk 32 cars leave train
and return .. ~.-. to
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Brest Litovsk 114 empty tank cars
Brest Litovsk 12 care leave train
and return ~ _..~ `` 1 fave train,..
est Litovsk 104 empty refrigerator cars
Bret Litovsk 12 leave
and return cars tra i n
1::.5'v, x?3 20 July Brest Litovsk 118 empty gondola cars
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Fire?st, Litovsk
110
empty refrigerator cars
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54 now three-axle trucks
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T~= - of after zowce arrived in Frankfurt/Oiler, another train loaded with
50 launchers arrived.
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Noted the leave trains mentioned were non-sche .uled
trains, In the future, also scheduled leave trains will be handled by
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25X1 2, "~e? not notice any signs of unrest In Poland. Only in late; Jinie
an. he observe a concentration of Polish troops including tank units in
W/arsaw, All his missions were carried out smoothly and no disturba.n Wes in
railroad traffic were noticed m3 The Polish railroadmen were very x ind toward
their German colleagues and frequently mentioned how well off they were d1 wing
25X1 the German occupation, stied a Polish railroadti3an why the Poles had
not joined in the June 1 The Fole answered that things were rather
complicated for then, bez:ause the had the Soviets on the one side and the
25X1 Gernans on the other? met Poles who had abandoned their
farms and houses given o 4 era an ie polish administered portion of Germany
and were returning to their previous hones. 'dhen he asked one of these
Poles why he was doing this, he was told that nobody knew what the future
held in store for the Poles and he, at any rates did not like being caught
on German property?
The controls of German locomotive brigades in Poland had become much More
lenient o The Polish customs officials and members of the l-Militia could be
easil brVued and shower? the tendency of making friends with the Germanw,,
almost all of the troop trains coming from the direction
of Trest Litovsk curried five T--34 tanks each,, He never saw trains exclusively
loaded with tanks. In early July, in Frarkfurt/Odes two eastbound 25X1
trains wsbich carried Soviet soldiers w bo wore air force insignia Y One of the
trains had apparently core from Velzow, the other one from- Dresden, The train
from WTelzow also carried fnur large fuel tanks which looked as if they had
been recently dug out.;5
following information on railroad lines and transloading
a. The Tluszcz Lapy and Bialystok-Euznlea sections are single
track. The railroad bypass 'branching off at Golabki toward Warsaw.
Danzig Railroad station, is double track. The Czeremchaw-f rest Litovsk
line is single-track and standard-gauge. 7
b, Of the Guben-Sulechow railroad lire, the
Cu" n-Lissa section is si.ngle-tracks the
L, ssa?Lodz,'Olechow section is double-track, the
Tft/O .echoes-Tr na.szom section is single track, the
T vaszot tad section is single-track, the
r.nd7 /C lnchov-Sk rzysltio section is single-track,, the
Skarzysko-?Dorohusls section -1.s double-track, the
Rejewi.ce-fawa l-,aska section (via Hrebene) is single-track08
There were no indications of an intended double tracking- of the Sulechowa-
Wolls?tei.n-Ussa line section, Trains directed via Dorohusk are not
transloaded in Jagodin but in Dowel` Trains directed via Hrebene are
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had been suspended o Pav a Fuska was pf eviously used as a trariel oadin;'
point for ties, boards,, planks, barrels, where these articles were
creosoted before being forirarded o The Zbydniow Rozwa.dow line is zoos l
single track After Rozwadou, the line is double-track, because it has to
handle coal ship tents from Upper SIiesiao6 Trains passing through
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Nizhankovichi are transloaded there or at Mo tjska 10
c., As previously reported, two new railroad stations are under construction
'between Wysoki-Litovsk and the Brest Litovsk airport, The installations
were a lost completed. The two stations are egyuipped with eight wracks,
on sorie of which parted trains were seen. No coal storage facilities
were noticed, Work on the ' new tracks between Malaeze