RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600560016-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC;:.._ ..
EV ALUATION_ __
DARE O F CONTENT
DATE CBTAINED
R-
EFERENCES _...r~,
-DATE PREPARED I Ai'i1 1955
PAGES. 3 __,_-. ENCLOSURES (NC. & rfPE)....,_..
REMAR S.____~This is UNEVALUATED Information
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R - refriCerator car
heavy-duty flatcar
Date in Number and
11arch Type of Cara Load
14 50 B undet{ r l d
6 T fs
12 T
3 R new
21 F mach1ner5 parts
`.C T undetermined
16 12 R new
16 T empty
19 30 F new trucks
10 F machinory partU
20 B undetermined
20 T empt -
6 F mac; .: nsj~ ;;r part,
2 B,
22 Say
PLACE OBTAINED._J
20 B potash
16 T empty
15 46 B uranium ore
Frankfurt/Oder
Deeeau
Frankfurt/Odor
Grosskorbotha
Zwickau
Frankfurt/Oder
Dees n
Grosekorbotha
Leip~
Alten~abow 1
Forst Zinna }
Eilenburr
Brest Litovck 3
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Brest Ltt 2 4
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Riess. 5
Brest Litovsk 3
T'rankfurt/Odor 6
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Fratih-furt/Oder 6
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i!;SSIFICAi'1ON
East Germany
.,.....REPORT
Border Stations
y.~ Rail Freight Traffic throu :i aot G
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20
48 cars 900 tons Frankfurt/Oder
14 F mach nexy parts Leipzig
20 B und.etermined
6 T empty
12 R new
2 F wheel sets
2 B, 22 SSy 1,400 tons Frankfurt/Oder
exceeding standard
21
12 B
n eeesurertents
undetermined
2 SS
18 T
long crates
undete.F. r i ned
12 T
49 B
6 B, 2 SS
6 T
large crates
unt.etermined
Ouben
8 T
empty
Leipzig
6 P
machinery parts
20 F
new trucks
Zwickau
49 B
undetermined
Tr'rankfurt/Oder
21 SSy heavy tanks
2 B large escort detail
23 49 B undetermined, Frankfurt/Odor
rod flag
indicating
ammunition
24' B undetermined
1 B, 13 F new txu .cks
5 F small radio trucks
4 B eacor: personnel
6 T empty Leipzig
2. Between 24 and'29 March, the following s1 i mgita were
Frsxikfttrt/"Cc.er at the railroad stgrtions Jaen 3.oned..
Altengrabow 1
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk 3
Cottbus 8
Magdeburg )
Biederitz ) 2
fiesa
Cottbus
Burg 2
Frankfurt/Oder 6
Ouben 7
.Alltengrow 1
Borna
Cottbus
direction of
Flalkenberg
I,ii gdeburg 9
Riess,
10
Frankfurt/Oder 6
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annoynced frdp ? ,
Date in March
Nunbe ? of
of which with
Load Exceeding
Standard Measurements
24 to 25
3
3
Strausberg
1
1
Ruhland
2
2
Herder
26 to 2t3
25
5
Strandberg
11
23 to 29
22
,2
17erder
Pomrient. Ammunition shipmen.te from the USSR. A large Soviet
emr=i%ion depot is located at lltengrabow. Cottbus was mentioned in
co-,=ection with the shipment on 25" !`8M'w problLly only an intermediate
station.
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Corot. These shipments night involve a large number of East
. teak cars which had been dispatched empty to the USSR.
e shipment to Finow *as probably
or use by the Twenty-Fourth Air Akmy. The receiving stations of the
3.
4.
5.
6.
e?
9.
Other shipments give no insications of the consignees.
omment. Deliveries from East German railroad car factories
Lo -he USSR.`
total of 10, 471 tons of uranium oe Were' ppedd#
Clo e n Uranium ore shipment to' "`USSR. lit February 1
-'ornnent. These shipments consisted of tanks, definitely of the
new T-54 type tanks when loads e.zceeded and Re s
probably also in the other cases The s e . on 1 Llarch is reported
for the first., time.; it, was consisned to the 9th Tu Nv_
Li that case, for the first time a mechanized division would have
recei b Dd tanks of the cv type, ? 041- - . -
!.a or a, rr ? c is the r.-military post of the 0th Gdo MSecz Div, was the
corree b receiving station, the shipment is reported for the first time.
Corr~-n;,n1:. l pty tank c lxs probably. dispatched to the USSR.
.cnnent. Probably exnora, deliveries to Poland nr the T1.^,,R.
1>om non -. Possibly aircraft consigned to the KVP.
A=a:y.~int. These shipments were connected with the motor vehicle
exc:1 ; e fir. o#;xmzn 'ii ch Is still ,::.nder wait at a reduced volume.
10. _oiaont. These radio ?trck were possibly consigned to the 9th
Tank, li:.-7.
;onrrent. The shipments to Strausberg and t7erder possi ly consisted
of ~c7u :prx?>. at co asi. ed to the Twenty-Fourth Air Army. The cars with loads
e< ceed:ing -tan ozd measurements- , ossibly carried special vehicles as
care ;'. wig cars, radar sets, -its.. 0.
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