VEHICLE AND TRAIN REPAIR SHOPS IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002501100007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY Korea REPORT
SUBJECT Vehicle and Train Repair ShopS in DATE DISTR.
15 October 1953
North Korea.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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a North Korean army vehicle repair shop was in a redbrick
building at YC-361137 near Haeju City. The building was 6 meters long, 6 meters
wide, and 5 meters high. The roof was taken off to camouflage the shop as a
ruined building; the building was covered with canvas on rainy days. A pear
orchard, 80 meters square, was 20 meters north of the building. A cement house
with a tin roof was 4 meters south of the building. This house was 7 meters
long, 4 meters wide, 3 meters high, and was used to store repaired vehicles.
One North Korean army warrant officer, armed with a PF6h, supervised the repair
work which was done by five unarmed privates. The shop was supplied with all
the necessary tools and fuels.
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the Puhiang-ni CU 39-51, E 127-37) (CV-8111) Consumers' Guild
vehicle repair shop was in a valley at CV-812111, 15 meters west of a highway.
The shop was in a trench which was 5 meters wide and 1.5 meters dee. Another
trench, 2 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, was 3 meters south of the first 50X1-HUM
trench. This trench was used as an office. there were three
damaged trucks parked betide the office. The shop employed three clerks and
12 mechanics. The shop was equipped with the necessary repair tools, including
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=electric welding machine. Both military and government vehicles were repaired
at the shop.
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a locomotive repair shop-was in-a-rallroad tunnel between BU-639581
3 near Earim-ni CN 39..200 E 125-16) (BU...6557). Four tunnels were
dug on both sides of the main line to house the shop. Each tunnel Was 50 meters
long, 30 meterS wide, and 5 meters high. One hundred and thirty North Korean
army troops and 170 Chinese Communist-army troops Worked in the shop under the
supervision of two Soviet advisors The shop was
equipped with 6 lathes, 10 boring machines, 3 electric welding machines, three
50fhorsepower compressors, 3 cranes, and two 30-horsepower concussion hammers.
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the Bamhiing roundhouse was in'a tunnel which ran through a
mountain, south of Sanggot'al (N 39-562 E 127-49) (CV-9919), between CV-997188
and AV400183. Another tunnel was 10 meters southwest 'and ran parallel to the
first one. The latter tunnel handled train traffics-and the other one had
been used as a roundhouse One switch was on the north ena
of the tunnel at CT-9971900 and another switch was at the south end of the50X1 -HUM
tunnel at cv-998179. The slag from the roundhouse was thrown alongboth sides
of a railway line which was 30 meters east of the regular line. The regular
line ran from W.001204 to DV...006209. Five North Korean army troops, armed
with MbssinZagant rifles, were on duty at the southern entrance of the tunnel.
The tunnel had been bombed many times, but remained in
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5. The Sanggot'al railroad tunnel had also been bombed
although damages were inflicted at the southern entrance only. Trains usually
hide in the tunnel from 0300 to 0500 hourS, and from 2000 to 2100 hours.
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6. locOmotiraiad railroad'ears-were being repaired in a tunnc..A.
!Itt.,--.70-42514-3..1 kji**-0itisitely. 3 kilometers northeast opf the Tonghaeju Railroad
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- rai1ri*eri**14,- Shop, as in front - of. tOtieiiOrighaeju Railroad Ptation at
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YC.A(401:2A beftiVe'.tbeefltbi-eal of-the Korean conflictt but after being 'bombed
it was moved to Pakch'on-dong (W-395117). This
and the repair shop reopened at 50X1-HUM
area was also bombed out
YC -425141.
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