RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900640007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The following shipments became
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ENCLOSURES ($0. & TYPE).
4 and 16 April 1955:
B - boxcar F - flatcar SS - heavy-duty flatcar T - tankear
Date in Number and Load
April Type of Cars
4 3 B, 21 Ss
1 B, 50 F
1,700 tons
50 trucks
5 Ji cars
34 T
13 46 B
16 34 T
50 trucks
undetermined
uranium ore
undetermined
2. The following shipments were observed
April:
G -. gondola car
Date in Number and
April Tyi of Cars
9 do"
56 0
56 G
40 T
46 B
56 B
11 56 G
56 B
55 B
coke
iron ore
undetermined
Uranium ore
undetermined
empty
undetermined
Brest Litovsk
it
Magdeburg 3
Brest Litovsk 4
via Falkenberg 3
between 9 and 16
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankfurt/Oder
Ziltendorf
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Brest Litovsk
Magdeburg
Guben
Zwickau
Guben
at Frankfurt/Oder
Erfurt 1
Cottbus 2
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11 56 G
#$ F
35 T
12 56 G
56 G
56 G
56 F
55 B
56 B
56 G
56 G
56 B
iron ore
iron tubes
empty
iron ore
It
it
iron tubes
undetermined
13 56 G coke
56 F iron tubes
56 G iron ore
15 1 shipment 60 three-ton
trucks
16 52 F
56 G
56 G
55 B
iron tubes
iron ore
lumber
undetermined
Date in Number and
April Type of Cara
17 47 cars
1,348 tons
18 22 F exceeding standard
measurements AltruppinE,
l g 4 cars
On 11 ADril. boxcars with military goods
Oder to Velten
Wildpark
dispatched from Frankfurt/
Comment. The weight of the ship*ent and the type of cars tend
to indicate that T-54 tanks. were shipped. The receiving station and
the fact that ho load exceeding standard measurements was recorded
contradict that assumption. The shipment was possibly identical with
the air force shipment
Comment. These shipments were pos-,ibl- connected with the motor
vehicle exchange program.Cottbus was presumably only an intermediate
station from which the shipments were forwarded toward the East.
Comment. Probably a shipment of aviation gasoline
4. Comment. Uranium ore shipments to the USSR which a