HARBOR OBSERVATIONS - GDYNIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R000100200043-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: October 24, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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Discharged 13,805 tons grain
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silo, which was nude of ce?enr Lais deszribed to be about to 100 feet
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The outer breakwater was r.:..de ce:,.e?lt ? -xi in good condition.
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tnere was
shortage of peuicillin in(.1c,y-nia
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One vessel (name unknows) docked at Polish Quay. The ship arrived in
ballast and loaded general cargo (nort unknown). One Polish vessel (name
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Two Poliah vessels (names unknown) docked at Rotterdam Quay (cargo and ports
unknown). Cne vessel (name unknown) docked at Indian Quay
(cargo and ports unknown). Lne Soviet vessel (name unknown)
anchored at a prowite position 54?32'30"N - 180
37125"E.
the vessel being between four and five thousand tons and very old. VI -1.m
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SECOND VCIAGE
The S/S Cape tan Yemelos (LI) docked port side to at the French Quay, discharged
grain, and left in ballast. Cne Soviet freighter (name unknown) docked at
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no armed guards around this aLp. one destroyer
(otherwise uniden:Afied) in the Kanal Fortowy off the Norwegian Quay.
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naval vessels in this area, one of which might have beer a
there were many fishing vessels in the
destroyer was sighted In the Baltic Sea off
three =mailer
minesweeper.
Outer Harbor.
the Island of
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Bornholm.
general ,Cbeervation2
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a club for seamen called the inter Club.
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A bottle of wine at the Inter Club sold for
US$1, while a bottle of beer could be purchased for US$.10.
at the Inter Club many Chinese sailors who wore black
uniforms. they might have been connectedwi2I a
naval school.
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19. the rate of exchange through a bank is four zlotys
tor US*1, but throLisn me black market you can get 150 zlotys for US$1. 50X1-HUM
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20. Conditions in Gdynia were described as very poor. An agency clerk earns
700 zlotys per month; one Fair cf shoes costs between 700 and 800 zlotys.
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