TRANSIT TRAFFIC THROUGH POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400060005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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1. At a 1#M. salmi/ Lam/ is 1111110800W it was of
t4eitr!X4!'1ltiLIIJ tr, ttte CSR Poland were no }vr7ger erma`in loco-
motive brigades. The previous practice was to be discontinued in recognition of
the sovereign status of the GDR and with a view to transferring the control of
transit shipments in Poland to the Polish railroad authorities. It was laid down
in Moscow that, effective 1 July 1954, trains loaded with goods consigned to the
USSR would operate only as far as Frankfurt/Oder where they would be taken over
by Polish personnel who in turn were to take them to Brest Litovsk. It was also
agreed that all grain shuttle trains would operate through Guben; two or three
trains per day, in particular coal trains, would operate through Kuestrin/Kietz;
while the bulk of goods dispatched to the East would be shipped through
Frankfurt/Oder.
2. The agreement concluded in Moscow stipulated that for a transition period German
locomotives may be used for the handling of trarsit trains through Poland. Source
stated that German railroad authorities believe the Polish railroad administration
would be unable to fulfill its treaty obligations because of a shortage of loco-
motives and rolling stock.
Comment. Unconfirmed information on the intended deactivation of the East 25X1
- oolum a may be oonneoted with the reDested rearaat stioa
of tail t,tdt traffic through Poland.