PORT INFORMATION: SWINEMUNDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A007000020005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Poland.
Port Information: Swinemunde
THIS DOCUMtNT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFICTINO THt NATIONAL Otlittlt
OF TOt UNITS0 'TOM WITHIN THAMIANINO OF TITIA IS. SICTIONS 7011
AND 794, OF 'PHI U.S. CODS, AS AMINCID. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RtVf.
LATION OF ITS CONTSNTS TO ON RCMP, ST AN UNAUTHORMO PINION II
PROWIIITAI, BY LAW. TM! REPROUGTION OP TWA WONT IA PACIVITI
THtS is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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DATE DISTR. / e Max 1954
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REPORT NO.
LISE OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO CIA FOR
IAC DISSEMINATION IN .A.CCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 3 c OF JECID r (Dio, 8ND No
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Alphabetical Designators Coordinated with information reported herein, specific
points are located on overlay to BA Chart No 185 and identified by the following
alphabetical designators:
A:- Approach line
B - Pilot Boarding point
C - Polish Police Patrol Station
D ...Anchorage
E - Antiaircraft; Battery
F - Soviet Naval Facility
G - Polish Naval Facility
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This report is for the use within the um of 'the Onliknietts of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It is not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating office through the Assistant Director of the Office of Collection and Dissemination, CIA.
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7. ....takAswe_disAn andhorage point is located about 500 yards off the entrance to th50X1-HUMe
port at designator-IL Another anrinnrac? im sa+ -nr..41,01-
I The anchorage at Point D was small in area., had
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9. Channel depth Average depth of water
was 24'.
10', Traffic Restrictions When tankers are underway in the channel out of Stettin
all incoming shipping is halted at Swinemunde.
11. Shipping Observed Three merchant vessels
enter,
observed standing out of port
10 more were sighted waiting to
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12. Patrol Station A Polish harbor police patrol station is located at point C.
13. Coastal Defense Battery
a radar controlled coastal defense battery is located at designator E.
This battery, thought to be an old German installation, is arranged in single
mounts with slit trenches connecting. Ordnance consisted of four guns of 8.8
cm barrel diameter and three guns of 21 cm barrel diameter.
14, Fire Control Radar The coastal defense battery: desdribed in paragraph 13 was
accompanied by fire control radar with antennas mounted on each gun. The antenna
consisted of parabolic reflectors with diapetits in the cente;,
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15. Naval Faci:,1Aes A naval facility and doe located on either side of
the channel near the entrance to the port. At egnator F is located a berthing
area for Soviet naval vessels and designator 0 a, berthing areafbr Polish naval
vessels.
16.
Soviet Naval Vessels Sighted. Berthed at designator F were three Soviet destroyers.
They were described as small, one funnel, single-mast craft, having a mattress
type radar reflector. antenna and two 12. cm main batter uns mounted in single
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resemble AMC No 105, the IRONSTADT class, more than other types. Also berthed at
designator IF were about 20 Soviet PT boat. described as having two torpedo tubes,
flying bridge and two small caliber automatic guns aft. They were identified as
members of the VOSPER class.
17. Polish Naval Vessels Sighted At designator G a very old Polish AMS type vessel
was berthed. This was believed to be an ex-German craft.
18. Status of Naval Units Both Polish and Soviet vessels were observed to be fully
operational and were believed to be frequently employed. Their general condition
was fair, though some hull plates showed minor signs of wear and buckling. Per-
sonnel aboard were thought to be in excess of normal complements and appeared to
superabound on vessels sighted.
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s elters at the naval facility appeared to have been repaired and in good usable
condition and that two new shelters had been erected and completed recentLy.
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