SOVIET RAIL SUPPLY SHIPMENTS

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CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630003-6
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RIPPUB
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S
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3
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December 22, 2016
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August 20, 2009
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3
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Publication Date: 
August 16, 1955
Content Type: 
REPORT
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Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007900630003-6 CLASSIFI ",ATION s. C1 U"TNMRN East G COUNTRY TOPIC, eroan 4 REPORT Soviet Rail Supply Shipments EVALUATION. DATE OF CONTEN` DATE OBTAINED_ REFERENCES PAGES 3 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE) REMARKS The following shipments were identified 21 and 29 July 1955= B C B F R SSy T TT boxcar converted boxcar flatcar refrigerator car heavy-duty flatcar with sideracks tank car heavy-duty tank car 1. Date Humber and Type in July of Cars Load 21 38 T 46 B 45 F military goods 43 F 48 F 43 r- 34 F 47 F 40 F 44 F 44 F 19 B ammunition 25X1 Brest-Litovsk Ruhland 1 Aue Brest-Litovsk 2 Leipzig Schoenfeld rail- road station Wildpnrk Leipzig Schoenfeld rail- road station IF rankfurt/Odes Brest-Litovsk direction of Cottbus 9 9 Toepchin 5 CLASSIFICATION SECRET , 16 August 1955 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007900630003-6 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007900630003-6 21 10 T 14 T 22 B 47 R 57 T 32 T 18 F 52 T 23 B 22 8 B 12 B 6B 7B 4B 6B 15 B 7B 11 B 8B 26 T 38 T 16 TT 70 T 54 C/B 23 F 38 T 13 TT 14 TT 4T 16 TT 20 T 10 TT 53 T 19 B 46 B 19 SSy ? B 2 C/B 24 106 T 117 T 38 B 46 B 54 v/B SECRET N CF ClkI empty trucks empty ammunition empty empty 150-mm S .P guns 45 tons empty ammr.nition empty SEC RI.~'T NDFORN Brest-Litovsk Wolfan Frankfurt/0der Krumpa Zwickau Ruhland. Brest-Litovsk Aken Merseburg Frankfurt/Oder Brost-'Litovsk n n` Brest-Litovsk Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk Aue Frankfurt/Oder Oranienburg 6 Ruhland 1 BBre:3 t-Li.tovsk n Poland Br, est-Litovsk VJnikow 5 Koenigsborn Alt@t3b"irg Strausberg Werneuchen Bad Saarow Fuerstenwalde Satzkorn 7 Frankfurt/Oder ) Sangerhausen Jueterbog Ruh-land 3- Brest--Litovsk 6 Brand 8 Aken 6 Espenhain Ruhland Weissandt Ormnierburg 6 Magdeburg Fuersta:nberg harbor 9 Brest-Litovsk 2 ? 1 Brest-Litovsk I ? 5 Brest--Litovsk 2 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007900630003-6 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630003-6 6ECR;:;i 24 11 B Rosengar. ten 5 Frankfurt/Oiler ) LIuellrese 9 B military goods 2. Date Number and Type in July of Cars From 21 1 C/B Kirchmoeaer Brest-Litovsk 29 19 SSy 3 F Brandenburg/Alt ft 1 C/B Kirchmoeser of 16 F Comment. Crude oil shipments from the USSR for GDR hydrogenation plants 25X1 an return of empty tank cars. 2. Comment. According to composition of trains and dispatch railroad statio4," these shipments certainly carried uranium ore from the USSR. 25X1 L ment. These four shipments carried buses mode available by y she GDR for tie Fifth World Youth Festival at Warsaw (31 July to 15 August 1955). These shipments were previously reported 4. Comment. Scanty information does not permit a conclusion about the load and consignee. These shipments possibly carried motor vehicles within the framework of the current motor vehicle replacement program. 7. 25X1 25X1 Z.Rosengarten omment. Ammunition shipments from the USSR to known Soviet ammunition 25X1 epo (shipment on 24 July) probably served as fozrding station. Lqomment. Fuel (jet fuel) shipments for the Twenty-Fourth Air Amy and return of empty tank cars. Comment. Supply shipments of miscellaneous goods including rations, clothing, signal equipment, and air-force equipment. Comment. Probably shipments of motor vehicles and/or equipment for Briesen airfield with Brand as unloading station. 25X1 9. Comment. Probably grain shipments from the UL 3R, dispatched f: om tiers enberg-harbor on inland water ways to the GDR. Comment. Shipments observed on 23 July (paragraph 1) and 21 July 25X1 paragraph 2 are possibly identical. These transports are possibly outgoing shipments of JSU-152s. Comment. Possibly outgoing shipments of obsolete prime movers from the 25X1 IV Arty Corps. SECROV Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630003-6