RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007500140001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Rail Freight Traffic through
East German Border Stations
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO. .
Number and
Type of Cars
Load
46 T
empty
Grosskorbetha
Frankfurt/Oder
20 F
new trucks
Leipzig
Brest Litovsk
10 B
undetermined
10 E
new
Halle
7 F
wheel sets
20 F
new trucks
Zwickau
it
2
12 F
new narrow-gauge Weimar
It
3
cars
50 B
potash
Grosskorbetha
Guben
50 T
empty
1
30 F
new trucks
Zwickau
Brest Litovsk
2
8 F
machinery parts
Leipzig
1 B, 6 F
new trucks
Frankfurt/Oder'
Magdeburg
4
8 F
machinery parts
Chemnitz
Brest Litovsk
26 F'
new trucks
Leipzig .
it
2
6 F
machinery parts
46 B
uranium ore
Sue
32 cars
38 "
boilers and
structural
parts
machinery parts'
Dessau
Leipzig
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
13 PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
shipments
22 June 1955:
B - 'boxcar E - express train coach
F - flatcar L - long-distance coach
T - tank car
Date in
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Leipzig
Zwickau
Magdeburg
Grosskorbetha
Goerlitz,.
12 F machinery parts Leipzig
1 B:; 50 F new canvas-covered
trucks Frankfurt/Oiler
15 18. F machinery parts
16 46 B6' uranium ore
i8 18 F machinery parts
50 B potash
19 6 L
20. 25 F new trucks
21 . 10 E
6F
new
wheel sets
shipments
19 and 22 June:
Leipzig
Leipzig
C/B - converted boxcar RRym - heavy-duty flatcars
SSy
Date in Composition Load Prom
June of Trains
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19 1 C/B, -50.1 dxeeeding Frankfurt/Oder
18?,-" standard
measurements
21 1 C/B, 50 F
22 1 C/B, 50 F
Brest Litovsk
it
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Guben
Brest Litovsk 3
rt
Magdeburg
Brest Litovsk
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Forst
Zinna
n
1 C/B; 1 B, exceeding Frankfurt/Oder Forst Zinna
20 SSy, standard
measurements
repoted previously
The shiprhent of 15 SSy-type flatcars
Koenigswuster-
hausen
1. Comment. Probably crude oil deliveries from the USSR to East German
Hydrogenation plants and return of empty tank cars to the USSR.
3.
4?
Comment. Export deliveries possibly dispatched to Red China.
Comment. Export deliveries from East-German railroad car factories
to the USSR. Long-distance coaches may be converted for sleeping.
Comment. These shipments were connected with the motor vehicle exchange
program.
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the USSR. A total of 10.000 to 11,000 tons of uranium ore is shipped per month.
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Comment. These shipments probably consisted of T-54 tanks consigned
to the 7th Gds Tank Div.
? The shipment
on 22 June is probably identical with a shipment reported previously
The shipment oh 17 June was Dreviously
reported
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COUNTRY Bad. ft
22 June 19558
SUBJECT Rail Freight Traffic through
past 'f. s= ,, Ev"eT ftations
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
TNtS 0OCUt1ENT COGJVAIt7S INFOOMATIOil AFFECTICIG THE NATIONAL DEFENSH
OF TNQ UNITED STC 33S. CITtIN TH r.QAl81NQ OF 7I:3Q 96. SQCTtOUS 799 AND 704. OF THE U. S. CDD3. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSt71SS1G7 QI' nEVEL-
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shipments
Fr* ankfurt/Cde r
Brest- Litovsk
B boxcar E - exxpress train coach
F flatcar L G long-distance coach
T tams car
Date in Number and Load.
June ye of Cars
30 F new tr?sicks ZE,rickau
9 50 T empty
46 T
20 F
10 B
10 E
7 F
empty
new trucks
undetermined
new
wheel sets
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
C-:rosskorbetha
L ipzig
8 20 F new trucks ZI71C tiLu
12 F new narrow-gauCe Weimar
cars
50 B potash Grosskorbetha
10 8 F, machinery parts Leipz iG
1 B9 6 F new trucks Frankfurt./Oder
1 8 F machinery parts Cheminitz
12 26 F new trucks Leipzig
6 F machinex,y parts
46 B uranium ore iue
13 32 cars boilers and Dessau
structural
pt 't:
14 38 14 machinery pa..-is Leipzig
15 8 T undetermined Guben
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Guben
Brest Litovsk
on
tS ,debug, 4
exceeding Frankfurt/Oder Forst
standard Zinna
measurements
1; oenigseauster- Brest Litovsk
hausen
l C/B, 1 B. exceeding Frankfurt/Oder
20 SSy standard
measurements
ea
Forot Zinna
The shipment of 15 SSy -type flatcars to Forst Zinna on 17 June which was
repo ted previousl
l~ LCozment0 Probably crudQ oil deliveries from the USSR to East German
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15 18 F Machinery parts Leipzig
16 46 B uranium ore Zwickau
18 18 F machinery parts Pidagdeburg
50 B potash Grosekorbetha
12 F machinery parts Leipzig
9 B; 50 F new canvas-covered
trucks Frankfurt/Oder
20 25 F new trucks Leipzig
21 10 E
6P
new
wheel sets
Leipzig
shipments
19 en 22-Junes
C/B o converted boxcar RRym - heavy-duty flatcars
SSy
June of Trains
Date in Composition Load
19 1 C/B118 R.R,ym
21 1 C/, 50 F
22 1 C/Bv 50 F
Rydrogenation plants and return of empty tank cars to the USSR.
20 [Comment. Export deliveries possibly dispatched to Red China0
3. Comment 0 Export deliveries from East German railroad car factories
to the USSR. Long-distance coaches may be converted for sleeping
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Cormento These shipments .robabl consisted of T- tanks consigned
o ~~ e 7th Cede Tank Div.
reported
The shiimciat
al with a shipment x-ep02?t:ec previously
The shipment on 17 June was p eviously F
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