SOVIET RAIL BORDER TRAFFIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007200700007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SBGR>
COUNTRY a'st Germany
TOPIC
Soviet Rail Border Traffic
EVALUATION DICE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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REPORT
DATE PREPARED 7 June 1955
On 23 May. A shipment of four boxcars with military goods exceeding the
scheduled load was to be dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder to Boehlen near 25X1
Leipzig. 1
lad 28 May 1955;
The following information was obtain between 23 25X1
On 24 May. A shipment of 23 boxcars with military goods exceeding the
scheduled load and 8 flatcars was dispatched from Dessau to Brest-Litovsk. 25X1
The shipment had 4 weight of 1,000 tons. 1
the scheduled load arrived at Frankfurt/Oder from Brest-Litovsk. Two flatcars.
On 25 May. A shipment of two oars with military goods exceeding the
scheduled load and two crash cars went from Wiederitzsoh to Brest-Litovsk.2
On 28 May. A shipment of 16 flatcars with military goods exceeding
were dispatched to Wittenberg, 6 flatcars
to Satzkorn, and 8 flatcars
to Riesa. 3
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1. Comment. The two shipments were probably composed of Soviet-type 25X1
boxcars which were put on normal-gauge wheels. The large body of such a oar
possibly led to the assumption that the shipment contained military goods
which exceeded the scheduled load. The employment of such oars, however,
indicates that the goods were not to be reloaded at the rail change-over 25X1
point for reasons unknown. 25X1
3.
The transportation of goods exceeding the scheduled load and the crash oars
indicate that the shipment possibly contained long-measured parts of a bridge
or of cranes which had been delivered by pertinent industries in Leipzig
(Bleichert Firm?)
Comment. A similar shipment was previously observed.
the mechanized armies.
Gommnnt. The report indicates that new T-54 tanks arrived from the
uutia. The three receiving stations are known as posts of tank divisions of
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