SOVIET RAIL SUPPLY SHIPMENTS

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CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630004-5
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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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4
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Publication Date: 
August 16, 1955
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007900630004-5 COUNTRY TOM 25X1 EVALUATION DATE OF CONTEN DATE OBTAINED_ REFERENCES 43 F 48 F PAGES 3 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE) REMARKS CLASSIFIQATION7 East Germany Soviet Rail Supply Shipments 25X1 B C/B F R SSy T TT The following shipments were identified 21 and 29 July 1955: boxcar cozraerted boxcar flatcar refrigerator car heavy-duty flatcar with sideracks tank oar heavy-duty tank car between 25X1 1. Date in July Number and Type of Cars Load From To 21 38 T Brest-Litovsk Ruhiand 1 46 B ^ 45 F military goods Leipzig Schoenefeldl? rail- road station Warsaw 43 F 34 F 47 F 40 F I__DATE PREPARED, 16 August 1955 44 F It 19 B ammunition 44 F direction of Cottbus Toepchin 5 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA007900630004-5 Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630004-5 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 8 B 2$ 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 C/B SEAL' NOFORN empty Wifen Frankfurt/Oder trucks empty ammunition Krumpa Zwickau: Ruhland Brest-Litovsk empty empty t, Akan Merseburg Frankfurt/Oder 'I Brest-Litovsk 150-mm IF guns Kirchmoeser 45 tons empty ammunition empty SECRET NOFORN Brest-Litovsk Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk Aue Frankfurt/Oder Oranienburg 6 Ruh:Land 1 Brest-Litovsk Poland 1 Brest-Litovsk 2 Wulkow 5 Koenigsborn Altenburg Strausberg Werneuchen Bad. Saarow Fuerstenwalde Satzkorn Frankfurt/Oder 25X1 ) Sangerhausen Jueterbog Ruhland 1 BrestLitovsk 6 Brand 8 Aken 6 Espenhain Ruhland Oranienburg 6 Magdeburg Fuerstenberg harbor Brest-Litovsk 2 if 10 ? 1 Brest-Litovsk 1 ? 5 Brest-Litovsk 2 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630004-5 Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630004-5 SECR NOFORN 24 11 B ammunition Brest-Litovsk Rosengarten 5 9 B military goods It Frankfurt Oder ) 7 25X1 2. Date Number and Type in July of Cars From 21 1 C/B Kirchmoeser Brest-Litovsk 19 SSy 3 F Brandenburg/Alt " 29 1 C/B Kirohmoeser " 16 F Comment.Crude oil shipments from the USSR for GDR hydrogenation plants and r turn of empty tank cars.. 2. Comment. According to composition of trains and dispatch railroad station, these shipments certainly carried uranium ore from the USSR. ~Cnmm~ant_ These four shi-oments carried buses made available by the GDR for the Fifth World Youth Festival at Warsaw (31 July to 15 August 1955). These shipments were previously reported 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. 25X1 25X1 Comment. Ammunition shipments from the USSR to known Soviet. ammunition 25X1 depots. Rosengarten (shipment on 24 July) probably nerved as foi4rding station. 6. Comment. Fuel (jet fuel) shipments few the Twenty-Fourth Air Army and 25X1 7. return of empty tank cars. Comment. Supply shipments of miscellaneous goods including rations, clothing, signal equipment, and air-force e&pnbpment. Comment. Probably shipments of motor vehicles and/or equipment for Briesen airfield with Brand as unloading station. 1Comment. iProbably grain shipments from the USSR, dispatched from 25X1 Fuerstenberg-harbor on inland waterways to the GDR. 10. Comment. Shipments observed on 23 July (paragraph i) and 2:L July 25X1 paragraph 2) are possibly identical. These transports are possibly outgoing shipments of JSU-152x. 11. Comment. Possibly outgoing shipments of obsolete prime movers from the 25X1 IV Arty Corps. SECRET NOFORN Approved For Release 2009/08/20: CIA-RDP80-00810A007900630004-5