RUSSIAN MAIN RATION SUPPLY DEPOT AT FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200230001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 1NT`LLUGENCE AGENCY
NFORMATION
COUNTRY East eery
SUBJECT Russian Main Rati?.in. Supply Depot at
?rankfurt/Oder
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L. the 10 February 194, all German employees and worke-'s of the main ra-0i ore supply depot
at Frank'uvt Qder were diacharged without. notices 'i;h=e reason being that all G rrana
eripio *ed ..: th Soviet ur_ith were to be made -.vailab1.e for tho Ger,n*n ,+cnre ;;r ` f
main depot at Frankfurt/Oder will allegedly be turnad over to Soviet civilian au-
tsaoritiee On 9 Yeabruaz 1954, 40 Soviet air force soldiers arrived .at the depot;,
o urce believed that the depot was to become a reser' a depot, while the current
supply for units in the, GDR was to be secured by direct distribution from ration
supply carat , I
On 10 February;, the main supply_ depot at Frankfurt/O der was fill :d to capacity
by 558 carloads of foodstuff inalutidE 3 ng:
Lo
ad
36
8
flour
e
mpt
y brags
46
n
ooa
,s
15
millet
9 b
isc
uits
sugar
27 sn
it
12
peas
9 hu
ll
ed bar
ley
6
"
tea
23 gr
oa
ts
13
'
fish
12 bu
ck
*het u
C-
w
4
canned moat
caned fruit
he
ca
rr
nn
ings
ed fis
h
5
0-Its
to
ma
to pul
p
sago
mustard powder
matches
oa
Pe
i0 ve
t
pp
ge
meal.
e-C'
table
oil
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CLASSIFICATION SMEET
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The f olio'Ping is a list of supply shipments that arrived at the main supply depot
in Frankfurt/Oder between January and 12 February 1954:
Number of Cars in 1954
uary
bruary,
Brest Litovsk
flour
78
15
makhorka
20
-
fish
21'.
3
sugar
17
oannad meat
13
oats
14
buckwheat
9
groats
6
millet
-
lard
2
tea
1
Wittenberg'e
vegatable oil
21
Leipzig
meat
4
2
Lee ban
Dre:sc1oa"a
Heiden-au
noodles
zwiebaQk
noodles
14
8
Mesa
salt
12
hulled banle_
zwieback
peas
3
The following is a list of supply shipments that were dispatched from the main
m pp1y depot between January and 2 February 1954:
Number of Cars in 1954
vd S arow flour -~ I
fish I
-~
sugar and salt 3 1
various foodstuff 3 3
1
2
4
8
f lour
sugar and salt
rakhork a
noodles
eear:nod rmmat
vegetable oil
various foodstuff
fish
sugar
various foodstuff
liei denau flour 4.
'P5 rank` rt/Oder,
bakery
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Jueterbog flour 5
makhorka 5
noodles 15
augur and salt ?J 3
vegetable oil 3
canned meat 1
fish -
various foodstuff 15
Strausberg
tea and pepper
lard
fish
flour 11
sugar and salt 2
makhorka 1
fish 6
vegetable oil 2
varlous foodstuff 2
2
6
4
undetermined flour 5
salt 3 2
sugar 5 2
noodles S 4
iaakhorka 7 4
vegetable oil -
fish 1 -,
canned meat 2
various foodstuff 26 11 3
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The discharge of German employees is believed to have been made
ec; uu of =: ?: c ?ity reasons, rather than to make available personnel for the German
o .,; A rtt I_tt nears improbable that this main ration supply depot of the
GOaO z',-a1d Gee taken over by Soviet civil- Jan authorities.
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tons of ratio" Bupp1y, . a e o about 4,200.,'000 daily rations,
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a;1it.n L. ` ie rate of incoming supply amounted to 232 carloads (without tobacco)
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and is a thou :
20 percent above the monthly average rate of 1953. As the rate of out-
going >a p y is 10 percent ;.above this average rate, it can be ii red that the
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