DISSOLUTION OF THE EAST GERMAN RAILROAD BRIGADES TO BREST-LITOVSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900740010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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This Imaterist-.cantata&?ii for gn at[ect*Jig the' Na-
tional Defense oi ti tfnited States vRithln tYie can
INFORMATION REPORT ing r the-Esplpnage Laws, r 3T B.C . Been. 793
and -794, the -transmission,' or. revelation of which in
East Germany/Poland-
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SUBJECT Dissolution of the East German RailroadDATE DISTR..
Brigades to Brest-Litovsk
PLACE ACQUIRED
.take over the consigned freight trains.._.Once the Poles sign.foratrain they ref
existing conditions, the Poles come to Frankfurt/Oderbrueck* with their locomot,and
German Reichsbahn. This decision will result in a drastic -p=gut for the
sixty brigade employees.
3. As of 1 July 1954 no German personnel has gone to Poland fgi'rankfurt/Oder. Under-
2. The German personnel who were formerly in the brigades have beets.assigned to duties in
the vicinity of their home stations, As of 16 July 1954, there were only sixty former
brigade employees left in Frankfurt/Odors This contingent was being retained at Frank-
furt/Oder until 15 August 1954 in order to see that the transfor`oftrains'to
the Poles was effected without difficulty. This remain*hgrsonnel is scheduled to be
paid out of funds allocated ' for the operation of the brigas= The rate of payment
will be in ,compliance with pay scales established for nonbriga e e mployees of the East
personnel. Members of the German brigade were then returned to Frankfurt/Oder.
$. October 1954
1. At 2200 hours on 30 June 1954, the last German railroad''bragade departed from Frankfurt/
Oder for Brest-Litovsk. This train-arrived at Kutno and was taken over by Polish
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Poland without any further controls.