SOVIET TRANSPORTATION AGENCY AT FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007900750012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY.
TOPIC
East Germany
REPORT
Soviet Transportation Agency at Frankfurt/Oder
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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1. In June 1955, tlke Soviet transportation control agencies were in
existence in Frankfurt/Oder, namely the Sovietskaya Kommandatura ao~
Upravlenye (Soviet Tr portation Control Heddquarters) (SKU) at
the Frankfurt marshalling yard, and the Soviet Railroad Transportation
Office at the Frankfurt/Oder passenger station. It appeared that the
latter office was better informed on transportation matters, but it had
no authority of command over the SKU. From telephone talks conducted
with Russian interpreters attached to RBD Berlin it was inferred that a
Soviet transportation office was also in existence there.l
2. The SKU was located on the second floor of the operations building at
the Frankfurt marshalling yard and used three office rooms., Telephone
extensions assigned to the office were No.541 (commanding officer), 523,
and 524. The telephone2connections had been established by the GDR
postal administration. The officers of the agency and their
dependents lived in an restricted area on Goetheet~asse. The private
telephone extension of the commanding officer of the agency was No.
542. Mail for the agency was directed through the Soviet kommandat4ra
on Pushkin street in Frankfurt and was usually taken to the agency by
two Soviet soldiers armed with submachine guns. All letters were sealed
and r4oeipts had to be made out for them.
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Major Kuberkov
3. Officers attached to the SKU included:
Lieutenant Colonel Krasowski,
One clerk and one driver besides four interpreters were also assigned to the
sKU.3 The Soviet soldiers of the agency wore double-wing insignia on
their caps and their left arms with a red star belot it. .
Senior
Senior
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The SKU at Frankfurt/Oder is some sort of forwarding agency for all
military rail shipments to and from the USSR. Incoming trains are broken up
and the freight ars forwarded individually or in groups. Trains the
USSR are assem led at Frankfurt/Oiler by the SKU. Records for military
shipments are exclusively kept by the commanding officer of the SKU who
is informed by telephone about any incoming shipment which crosses the
Oder bridge.
On the basis of the records kept in his "Plansolibuch 1955"' the
individual cars of the incoming trains are forwarded to individual
places of destination. The distribution of the cars is entered in a
special book made out for the interpreters. The pages of this book are
numbered and when all pages are written up the book is taken away..
In this book the shipments are only marked with index numbers and
shipment record numbers. Interpreters are unable to determine the type
of goods involved from these numbers. If shipment record numbers are
illegible, the interpreters at the SKU in Frankfurt/Oder call their counter-
part at the Soviet transportation control headquarters attached to RBD
Berlin. This communication is established over the railroad telephone 1sirstem:
The telephone extension of the Soviet agency in Berlin is 899/23755?
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It is the mission of the Soviet ",railroad Transportation Office at the
Frankfurt/Oder passenger station to direct shipments arriving from Brest--Litovsk
to their destination in the GDR. The agency is also info ed about all
shipments dispatched from the GDR to; the USSR. The Soviet Railroad
Transportation Office is located on Bahnh`ofstrasse opposite the passenger
station. One Soviet lieutenant1colonel, one major,and two senior lieutenants
were assigned to this agency.
Comment. It is believed that the SKII is a military forwarding agency25X1
Within the German military transportation system, such forwarding agencies
were located at major marshalling yards and had the mission of forwarding
individual care or groups of cars below train strength. It ,s quite possible
that the SKU was directly assigned to a central agency in Berlin. The
Soviet Railroad Transportation Headquarters mentioned by source may be
a field office of the Central Soviet Railroad Transportation Headquarters
in Berlin. Soviet railroad transportation headquarters are attached to
each of the 8 RBDs.
Comment. It appears improbable that the SKU is connected to the 25X1
telephone network of the postal administration and not to the railroad
telephone system. At the end of paragraph 4 it was stated that the railroad
telephone system was used for communications with Berlin.
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